Jorvik: Home & Abroad

AN EXHIBITION from York’s Jorvik Viking Centre will move to nearby York St Mary’s in a partnership with York Museums Trust.

York St Mary’s is a medieval church which opened as a contemporary visual art venue in 2004. Jorvik is currently closed, following flood damage in December 2015, and is expected to re-open in spring 2017.

The exhibition, which will run until early 2017, focuses on the trade that made York a powerful centre of international commerce.

Sarah Maltby, director of attractions for York Archaeological Trust, says: ‘Even though Jorvik Viking Centre itself has been closed for more than five months, we are still getting hundreds of people coming along every day with a thirst for Norse knowledge, so having a fantastic exhibition that tells a key part of Jorvik’s commercial story literally in the adjacent building is a great way of keeping the story alive, while we continue to re-build and re-imagine the attraction beneath their feet.’

The exhibition – Jorvik: Home & Abroad – will feature artefacts taken from York’s Viking collections, alongside tableaux from the Jorvik Viking Centre displays which remained above the waterline during last December’s floods.  The exhibition will also provide a temporary home for Jorvik’s team of historic-costumed interpreters, who will share their knowledge with visitors.

Jorvik: Home & Abroad will run from June 25 until late February 2017, when the artefacts start to return to Jorvik Viking Centre.

www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk

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Hawks, walks and talks

A HOST of historic treats are planned for this year’s #JorvikMedievalFestival (August 1-31) when an army of experts, re-enactors, and interpreters, and almost 1,000 years of history will feature at 27 venues from York’s city bars to Knaresborough Castle and Selby Abbey.

Says Sarah Maltby, director of attractions at JORVIK: ‘When most people think medieval, the immediate thought is of knights, jousting and chivalry, but in fact, that is only a part of this huge period of our history which stretched from the late 5th century up until the demise of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, in 1485 – so that encompasses Anglo Saxons, Vikings, and Normans before you get to the 12th century concept of courtly conduct and chivalry. Few places in the country have as many colourful medieval stories as Yorkshire.’

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