WHAT'S ON?
Guided Tours
Public Lectures
Public Lectures
Wish to have a more in-depth view of the museum?
Public Lectures
Public Lectures
Public Lectures
Every Saturday at 2pm
Free admission with a valid museum entry ticket.
Lab Experience
Public Lectures
Lab Experience
Learn how scientists extract fossils from rocks in the laboratories below our gallery.
FOSSIL CLUB
The best way for kids to learn all about fossils!
Activities include laboratory sessions, field trips, crafts and much more!
Sessions every Sunday
10am - 11am for ages 5-7
(£6 arts and crafts session)
11am - 12pm for ages 8-10
12pm - 1pm for ages 11-14
(£8 science education sessions)
ULTRAVIOLET TOURS
Join us in exploring the fluorescence of our collection
Want to take part in an experience unique to our museum?
Join us in a UV tour of our Earth Science collection. Every Sunday at 3pm, the experience is free for everyone with a valid museum entry ticket.
PUBLIC LECTURES
ANNING LECTURES
Every Saturday at 2pm we host our public lecture series; the Anning Lectures. Join us live at the museum in the conference suite, or alternatively watch the lecture live on YouTube using the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/@YorkshireNaturalHistoryMuseum
PREVIOUS PUBLIC LECTURES
Death of the Dinosaurs: Speculation to Solid Science
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
20th April 2024
An Introduction to Thyreophora
Sam Bulmer - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Bristol
13th April 2024
Birth of a Planet: Formation of Earth
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
6th April 2024
Evolution of Whale Jaws
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
30th March 2024
The Quaternary Period: A Crash Course
April Howden - PhD Student @ Liverpool John Moores University
23rd March 2024
Exceptionally Preserved Trilobites
Dr Ru Smith - Adjunct Professor @ Universiti Malaya
16th March 2024
Britain's Rarest Habitat: Temperate Rainforest
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
9th March 2024
Rewilding: Returning to Nature
Issy Walker - Palaeo-Technician @ Neo Jurassica
2nd March 2024
Evolution of Early Whales
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
24th February 2024
Reconstructing a Jurassic Marine Ecosystem
Billy Pullen - Geological Sciences graduate @University of Leeds
17th February 2024
Dietary Adaptations of Paranthropus boisei
Maddy Widdowson - Researcher @Yorkshire Natural History Museum
10th February 2024
3D X-Ray Vision: An Exceptionally Preserved Jurassic Vampire Squid and Where it Lived
Dr Ru Smith - Adjunct Professor @ Universiti Malaya
3rd February 2024
Jaw Diversity in Theropod Dinosaurs
Morgan Whitley - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Bristol
27th January 2024
The Hidden Kingdom of Life: Fungi
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
20th January 2024
Fake and Invalid Dinosaurs
Joel Kelly - Biology Graduate @ University of Sheffield
13th January 2024
Sexual Dimorphism in Dinosaurs
Issy Walker - Palaeo-Technician @ Neo Jurassica
6th January 2024
Piscivore Biomechanics of Spinosaurids
Beth Wilkins - Palaeontology Student @ University of Bristol
30th December 2023
Digging Up Mammoths
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
16th December 2023
Evolution of Jaw Form and Function in Theropod Dinosaurs
Morgan Whitley - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Bristol
9th December 2023
Art Science
Mark Beachell - Lecturer @ Sheffield College
2nd December 2023
How Dinosaurs Work and how to Break Them
Sam Cross - PhD Student @ University of Liverpool
25th November 2023
Diet in the Fossil Record
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
18th November 2023
Palaeoecology of the Dinosaur Provincial Park
Issy Walker - Palaeo-Technician @ Neo Jurassica
11th November 2023
Secrets of the Hidden Kingdom: Fungi
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
4th November 2023
The World's First Biomechanically Accurate Plesiosaur Robot
Luke Muscutt - Laboratory Manager @ Imperial College London
28th October 2023
Bipedal Anatomy: Walking on Two Legs
Maddy Widdowson - Secretary @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
21st October 2023
The Formation of Earth
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
14th October 2023
The Rhaetian: When Britain became a Tropical Paradise
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
7th October 2023
Evolution 101
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
30th September 2023
Britain's Lost World: Temperate Rainforests
Melissa Worthington - Museum Coordinator @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
23rd September 2023
Growing the Tree of Life: A History of Evolutionary Trees
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
16th September 2023
Landscapes of the Pembrokeshire Coast
Abi Millen - Student Researcher @ Sheffield Hallam University
9th September 2023
Convergent Evolution
Evan Cozens - Palaeontology Student @ University of Bristol
2nd September 2023
Biodiversity and Taphonomy of the Basal Rhaetian Bone Bed
Francesca Usher - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Portsmouth
31st August 2023
Theropod Dinosaur Growth and Dietary Change
Dino Chu - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Birmingham
26th August 2023
The Importance of Ostracods in Understanding Past Environments
Dorian Marczykowska - Palaeontology Student @ University of Leicester
24th August 2023
The Morrison Formation
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
19th August 2023
The Ascent of Dinosaurs
Joshua Quinn - Palaeontology Student @ University of Birmingham
17th August 2023
Evolution of Dinosaur Skin
Issy Walker - Zoology Graduate @ Reading University
12th August 2023
Sauropod Growth
Guy Jones - Geology Student @ Open University
10th August 2023
Pollen Palynology
Racin Ly - Physical Geography Graduate @ Northumbria University
5th August 2023
Rocks & Birds of Flamborough Head
Paul Hildreth - Secretary @ Yorkshire Geological Society
29th July 2023
Armoured Dinosaurs
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
15th July 2023
How to become a Palaeontologist
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
8th July 2023
Geology of the West Highland Way
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
1st July 2023
Sabre-toothed Cat Evolution
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
24th June 2023
Mistakes in the History of Palaeontological Theory
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
17th June 2023
Pliosaur Palaeobiology
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
10th June 2023
Tyrannosaur Evolution
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
20th May 2023
Death of the Dinosaurs: K-Pg Extinction
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
13th May 2023
Palaeo-digitisation: Reconstructing Lost Science from Tomographic Data
Jake Kean - Palaeo-technician @ Neo Jurassica
6th May 2023
Thyreophoran Palaeobiology
Sam Bulmer - Palaeobiology Graduate @ University of Bristol
29th April 2023
Burgess Shale: The Evolution of the First Multi-Celled Animals on Earth
Duncan Friend - Evolutionary Biology Doctoral Graduate @ University of Cambridge
22nd April 2023
Early Cetacean Evolution
Oliver Weeks - Curator of Earth Sciences @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
15th April 2023
Ammonites of the Atlas Mountains
Will Peryer - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Portsmouth
8th April 2023
Toarcian Dreamin': Life in Yorkshire 183 Million Years Ago
Meghan Jenkinson - Palaeontology PHD Candidate @ University of Leeds
1st April 2023
Clash of the Titans: Saurischian Evolutionary Competition
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
25th March 2023
Nanotyrannus: In the Shadow of the Tyrant King
Jake Kean - Palaeo-technician @ Neo Jurassica
18th March 2023
Mammoths: Ice Age Megafauna
Kieran Mason - Archaeologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
11th March 2023
British Spinosaurs
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
4th March 2023
Yorkshire Trilobites
Oliver Weeks - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Bristol
25th February 2023
Ancient Hominid Diets: Bones and Behaviour of Boisei
Maddy Widdowson - Biology Graduate @ University of Sheffield
18th February 2023
Palaeontology of the Jurassic Coast
Kieran Satchell - Ambassador @ Jurassic Coast Trust
11th February 2023
Plesiosaur Hydrodynamics
Luke Muscutt - Lab Manager @ Imperial College London
4th February 2023
Feathers in Dinosauria
Jake Kean - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Portsmouth
28th January 2023
Carboniferous South Yorkshire
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
21st January 2023
The Bone Wars: The Great Dinosaur Rush of the American Gilded Age
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
14th January 2023
Functional Evolution of Cetacean Jaws
Oliver Weeks - Palaeontology Graduate @ University of Bristol
7th January 2023
Dinosaurs of England
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
31st December 2022
Dinosaurs of the North Pole: Through Frost and Fossils
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
17th December 2022
Predator's Paradise: Giant Predatory Dinosaurs of mid-Cretaceous North Africa
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
10th December 2022
Velociraptor: from Swift Thief to Movie Star
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
3rd December 2022
Excavating a Pliosaur
Richard Forrest - Independent Plesiosaur Researcher
26th November 2022
Mosasaurs: The Last Lineage of Great Marine Reptiles
Kyle Marson - Palaeontologist @ Yorkshire Natural History Museum
19th November 2022