Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated
The Editor
This celebration of light, colour and music opens at York’s Museum Gardens. Echoes of Yorkshire, by internationally acclaimed Luxmuralis is open to Sunday 2 November, with entry from 5pm/6pm, running to 8.20pm each evening. The show brings alive the story of the Yorkshire Museum and York Museum Gardens. It’s a chance to immerse yourself in the story of this historic site with contemporary light and music showcasing its age-defining artefacts and extraordinary exhibits.
Created by the collaboration of Peter Walker, sculptor, and David Harper, composer, Luxmuralis travels the world creating stories in light and sound to audiences at locations such the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral to city-wide open-air projections in places like Oxford and Limburg. Luxmuralis has enchanted hundreds of thousands with their unforgettable sound and light artworks.
This is York’s turn with the show titled ‘Echoes of Yorkshire’ taking place in York Museum Gardens across ten evenings. Refreshments will be available to purchase on the night, with multiple looping art installations to enjoy with the whole event taking approximately 1 hour to experience with stunning landscape lighting. Tickets are purchased in 20 minute intervals but once in the gardens you can journey through at your own pace. The show is suitable for all ages, making it an enjoyable event for the whole family. The audience will experience the gardens’ history from the Roman period to its time as an Abbey, and also showcase the Yorkshire Museum’s collections spanning 200 million years from the Jurassic, the Mesolithic, through to the Romans, Viking, Anglo Saxon and Medieval. Luxmuralis is all about fine art, light and sound reflecting closely on the history and heritage of places and weaves together the contemporary and the ancient. The Yorkshire Museum and its gardens typify a perfect location for such a show.
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Tickets cost £13.50 per adult, £9.50 for children aged between 5-16 years and children under 5 years go free. Tickets are available to book via www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk
