Welcome to YorkYork has a fascinating history and is a great place to bring groups of all ages. JORVIK Viking Centre, DIG, Barley Hall and Micklegate Bar Museum all bring this history together to create a unique day out in this beautiful city — at an exclusive price.

The Attractions At JORVIK Viking Centre, your group will be taken into the Viking Age to experience the sights, sounds and smells of 10th-century York. DIG is a fully interactive experience where your group will become archaeologists and discover 2000 years of York’s history. Delve into York’s bloody past at Micklegate Bar Museum and make your group feel at home at Barley Hall exploring the medieval townhouse once home to the Priors of Nostell and Mayor of York.

You can visit each attraction individually or buy a package to multiple attractions and take advantage of significant discounts.

What’s NewWe understand that catering for groups is hard. With this in mind, York Archaeological Trust has undergone a series of major refurbishments and developments over the past 2 years to ensure groups are guaranteed something new on their visit to their attractions.

JORVIK Viking Centre Since opening in 1984, over 16 million visitors

have enjoyed the JORVIK experience. In 2010, to celebrate the history and success of this groundbreaking visitor experience, York Archaeological Trust completed a £1 million refurbishment of the centre.

In 2011, two new exhibitions opened. Investigate Coppergate shows how the Vikings of Jorvik lived, what diseases and afflictions they suffered from, what they ate and even what she looked like. The End of the Vikings? takes a look at the final battles of the Vikings period in York and the legacy of the Vikings that survived in York after 1066.

Micklegate Bar MuseumMicklegate Bar Museum is located in the most important gateway along York’s historic city walls. Delve into York’s bloody history and explore famous battles, uprisings and revolutions through the ages. Explore the new exhibition marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by investigating the pomp and circumstance of royal visits to York from the 14th century to the present day.

Barley HallBarley Hall is home to the new exhibition From Hamlet to Hollywood: Fashion from Film. Explore the fascinating changes in fashion from Tudor times to the early 20th century through this unique display of costumes worn by some of the best loved stars of stage and screen.

To speak to a member of our Reservations Team about your group visit or for more information and prices, please call 01904 615505.

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What Will You Find?Grab a trowel and enter DIG-An Archaeological Adventure. You will investigate replicas of some of the most important digs in York and reveal some of the most significant finds that have changed the way we think about life in Roman, Viking, medieval and Victorian times. What tells us that the Roman soldiers were keen gamblers? What grave goods can be found with the monk buried on the Fishergate site?

As you continue through DIG you will learn how archaeologists analyse the information they find on site, how finds are recorded, and what dirt and bugs would be found in a typical Victorian house.

When you finish your archaeological training you will then see how all of the information is put together in a 3D audiovisual tour of what life would have been like in the periods that you have investigated.

Discover more about archaeology in ESI DIG, a series of changing exhibitions. From gladiator skeletons to marine archaeology, these exhibitions focus on unique finds from throughout the UK.

Exclusive offers for Groups:

• Guaranteed entry time – enabling you to plan your day in York.

• Free familiarisation visits for the group organiser.• Free admission for the group leader and coach driver (One free leader for every ten group members). • Group discount for parties of 15 or more.

Bookings and InformationTel: 01904 615505Web: www.digyork.com/groups.asp

St Saviour’s ChurchSt Saviourgate, York YO1 8NNwww.digyork.com

Micklegate Bar MuseumMicklegate, York, YO1 6JXwww.micklegatebar.com

Gateway to the PastDelve into York’s bloody history and explore the battles that inflamed the city and surrounding countryside, from the Viking invasion to the English Civil War. Discover how national rebellions and uprisings affected the city and whose head’s final resting place was a stake on top of Micklegate Bar.

Explore the Ring of Steel—the story of the famous battles, uprisings and revolutions witnessed by York and its surrounds.

Discover how the Ring of Stone, the city’s walls, has helped protect York from invasion, and its lasting effect on the development of the city.

Explore the new exhibition marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, which explores the pomp and circumstance of royal visits to York from the 14th century to the present day. Micklegate Bar is traditionally the gate through which the reigning monarch enters the city when arriving in York, and over the centuries it has welcomed kings and queens from Richard II through to Henry VIII, James I and Queen Elizabeth II herself. This new exhibition will explore and recreate some of the ways in which the Bar was used and decorated to mark the visits of these monarchs.

Exclusive offers for Groups:• Guaranteed entry time – enabling you to plan your

day in York.• Free familiarisation visits for the group organiser.• Free admission for the group leader and coach driver (One free leader for every ten group members). • Group discount for parties of 15 or more.

Bookings and InformationTel: 01904 615505Web: www.micklegatebar.com/groups

2 Coffee Yard, Off StonegateYork Y01 8ARwww.barleyhall.org.uk

Bookings and InformationTel: 01904 615505Web: www.barleyhall.org.uk/groups.asp

Make Yourself at HomeBarley Hall is a stunning medieval townhouse, once home to the Priors of Nostell and the Mayor of York. Until the 1980’s the house was hidden under the relatively modern façade of a derelict office block. Only when the building was going to be destroyed was the amazing medieval building discovered and its history uncovered.

The building has now been lovingly restored to its original splendour with stunning high ceilings, beautiful exposed timber frames, and possibly the only horn window in England. It has been decorated to replicate what it would have looked like as the Snawsell home around 1483 and boasts a magnificent Great Hall. Visitors to Barley Hall can make themselves at home and sit on the chairs, handle the objects and experience what it would have been like to live in Medieval England.

Exclusive offers for Groups:• Enjoy a mead reception, for just £1.00 per

person, in the splendour of the Great Hall. • Guaranteed entry time – enabling you to

plan your day in York.• Free familiarisation visits for the group

organiser.• Free admission for the group leader and

coach driver (One free leader for every ten group members).

• Group discount for parties of 15 or more.

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Take Hold of the PastAt JORVIK Viking Centre, you are standing on the site of one of the most famous and astounding discoveries of modern archaeology. From 1976-81, archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust revealed the houses, workshops and backyards of the Viking-age city of Jorvik, as it stood 1,000 years ago. These incredible findings enabled them to build the JORVIK Viking Centre on the very site where the excavations had taken place, creating a groundbreaking visitor experience that enables you to experience life in Viking-age York.

Take hold of the past and investigate all of the information gathered from the 5-year-long dig at Coppergate. Piece together the jigsaw of where the Vikings came from, why they came here, how they lived and died, and where they travelled to. As you travel around the Viking-age city aboard our state-of-the-art time capsules, you will encounter the Old-Norse-speaking citizens, see inside their houses, and enjoy the smells of 10th-century York.

Exclusive offers for Groups:• For an additional £1.00 per person, we can offer your group

their very own Viking tour guide.• For an additional £5.00 per person, your group can actually

walk on the set* of JORVIK, guided by one of our hosts. Your group will see up-close details that enabled the archaeologists to recreate the Viking city and find out more about the different processes used to reveal the past.

• Guaranteed entry time – enabling you to plan your day in York.

• Free familiarisation visits for the group organiser.• Free admission for the group leader and coach driver (One

free leader for every ten group members). • Group discount for parties of 15 or more.

*Flat shoes required. Tours must start after 5:15pm (min 15/ max 30 people). Prices for venue hire are available. Please ring for details.

Bookings and InformationTel: 01904 615505Web: www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/groups

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Adult Child Concession JORVIK £7.15 £4.75 £5.70

DIG £5.00 £4.50 £4.50

BARLEY HALL £4.00 £3.00 £3.00

MICKLEGATE BAR £3.00 £1.50 £2.00

JORVIK & DIG £10.40 £7.80 £8.60

JORVIK & BARLEY HALL £10.15 £7.00 £7.95

JORVIK & MICKLEGATE BAR £8.65 £5.50 £6.70

DIG &BARLEY HALL £8.00 £6.75 £6.75

DIG & MICKLEGATE BAR £6.50 £5.25 £5.50

BARLEY HALL & MICKLEGATE BAR £6.25 £4.13 £4.50

3 ATTRACTIONS £11.65 £8.50 £9.45

4 ATTRACTIONS £13.15 £9.25 £10.45

GROUP PRICES (per person)

To book your visit please call our reservations department on

01904 615505

JORVIK Viking Centre, DIG, Barley Hall and Micklegate Bar Museum are owned by York Archaeological Trust, a registered charity (No. 509060).

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