What’s On

What's on at the Museum

The Museum is now closed and will re-open on Monday 10 March, please see the Visit page for details on all opening days and times.

As well as a six-acre site and over 20 heritage buildings to explore, we have a varied and creative programme of events and activities throughout the year. We put details of all events on this page and those for 2025 will be listed soon.

Farm / Mill / Bake by Tessa Bunney

Saturday 22 March – Monday 5 May 2025 (open Saturday to Thursday from 10am, closed Friday)

Across the U.K. there is growing movement of farmers, millers and bakers working together to make bread which is better for people and for the planet. During 2024 documentary photographer Tessa Bunney journeyed to see some of them in Yorkshire. Now, Tessa share’s their stories and passions through a series of striking new photographs.

For over 30 years, Tessa Bunney has documented rural life through her photography. From hill farmers near her home in the North York Moors to Icelandic puffin hunters, from Romanian nomadic shepherds to Lincolnshire flower farmers, her work reflects on the relationships between people, work and the land.

Free to visit (this exhibition does not require a Museum ticket). Open Saturday to Thursday from 10am to 5pm (4pm in March), closed Fridays.

High Callis Farm, High Callis Wold, Bishop Wilton - organic oats
Yorkshire Organic Millers, Hill Top Farm, Spaunton Bank, Appleton-le-Moors
Alex Fraser, Denby Hall Barn, Denby Dale. Populations wheat grain.
The Haxby Bakehouse - Hoi Li

This exhibition has been part-funded by the Farming in Protected Landscapes Fund  (administered by the North York Moors National Park Authority) as part of a wider project to raise awareness about grain production and consumption among the farming community as well as the general public.

The Spaces Between by Francesca Simon

Saturday 10 May – Sunday 29 June 2025

Artist Francesca Simon works from a studio in the North Yorks Moors. The organic colours, lines and textures of the landscape around her have, paradoxically, led Francesca on a journey into geometric abstraction. The Spaces Between exhibition shows the series ‘Check Works’, which emerged from the confinement of Lockdown and daily walks near her studio. In these paintings the arrangement of right angled or half square triangles is disrupted by horizontal bars, resulting in playful, almost musical, compositions, in colours that suggest the particularity of the landscape in different lights and weather conditions.

Francesca Simon has a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Fine Art Painting from Central Saint Martins. She has recently had paintings in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Free to visit (this exhibition does not require a paid for Museum ticket). Open Saturday to Thursday from 10am to 5pm, closed Fridays.

Francesca’s Goaf Works series (forming part of The Spaces Between) will be exhibited at Platform-A gallery in Middlesbrough from 1 May to 12 June 2025.