YorNight Activities

Get up close to the Yorkshire Museum’s fossil collections and be amazed by the enormity of geological time and the animals that have appeared throughout it.

Join Yorkshire Museums Trust curators to find out about the ‘Old Collections, New Questions’ Roman Research project.

What can we learn from analysing a 1,000 year old body preserved in a bog? Find out with researchers from the University of York’s Department of Chemistry.

From England to Cape Verde to Borneo and back again: Join York researchers and discover why air pollution is a global problem.

Learn how a research centre is improving the lives of children and young people by developing and researching mental health interventions for deaf and hearing children.

Discover how the atomic scale structure of nanoparticles can be revealed using electron microscopy and explore 3D nanoparticles in virtual reality.

Why do we complete each other's sentences, say the same thing at the same time or imitate each other’s posture? Join linguistics researchers to find out.

Join us for a photographic exhibition of some of the best examples of Palaeolithic art curated in Britain and meet the exhibition’s creator Dr Andy Needham.

Get hands on playing with the magnets that fill our everyday life and find out why magnets are key to data storage.

Learn about different types of ‘Marvellous Microbes’ with our family friendly interactive demonstrations and talk to University of York biologists about their work.

Put on a VR headset and dive into the atomistic world of biomolecules with York physicists to find out about the molecules that make you, YOU.

From reading the hungry caterpillar with your child, to testing your own number sense, take part in fun activities related to how we deal with numbers.

Join York biologists and explore the wonderful ways of using waste to produce green, renewable energy, and discover the science behind microbes that produce methane.

Join the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine to find out why physics and engineering are so important in healthcare and how radiation is used in medicine.

Meet Dr Alex G. Gillett and Dr Kevin D. Tennent - the ‘Soccer Mad Boffins’ - and find out about their research into the business of sport.

Discover how ‘hydrogels’ are used in everyday life from contact lenses and food, to cosmetics and nappies. Join York researchers and learn how and why they work.

Meet physics researchers inside the Sundome and discover fusion energy. Learn how plasmas are used in everyday life, from plasma TVs to spacecraft propulsion.

Join scientists to learn where stem cells come from, how we get them and how they might be used for the treatment of joint diseases.

Put on a pair of 3D glasses and learn how researchers are exploring a previously unobserved world of microscopic swimmers by incorporating lasers into advanced microscopes.

Join researchers for a board game simulating the 18th century Grand Tour, an extensive trip to Europe made by elite English travellers as a culmination of their studies.

Listen to the graffiti scratched into the walls of York Gaol by prisoners 200 years ago and learn inmates’ stories from the 1700s and 1800s.

Have a go at new smartphone memory games, contribute to scientific research and find out more about the York Memory Games (YORMEGA) project.

Explore the Universe … using Lego. Join York physicists and find out about the building blocks that make up our world.

Would you drink a cricket smoothie? Or eat a mealworm burger? Come along and meet scientists from Eat Bugs Outreach and see what all the buzz is about!

Join University of York researchers inside the Cosmodome and learn how to find and identify different constellations in the night sky.

Take a journey through the scientific study of the brain and mind, and discover how your big beautiful brain works with Dr Aneurin Kennerley.

Handle objects and discover the stories of soldiers in the Roman Army in York between the 1st and late 4th centuries.

Find out about the 6th Legion in York, including its temporary movement northwards to help construct Hadrian’s Wall.