Contact: Martin Fell, Digital Team Leader
Independent Museums Trust: Operator responsible for key civic museums, York, United Kingdom

About us

Our sites:
Yorkshire Museum:Archaeology, Geology, Natural History
York Castle Museum:Social History
York Art Gallery:Fine Art
York St Mary’s:Contemporary Art
York Museum Gardens:Historic buildings and rare plants



YMT operate York’s key sites formerly run by the city council. The collections cover a vast range and include items of international significance.
YMT is a charitable trust with close links to the city's council. It is an Arts Council major partner and operates a Museum Development service for the county of Yorkshire.

Our GLAMwiki work

GLAMwiki Project Pages: Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT
Top Commons Category: commons:Category:York Museums Trust
Donated images Commons Category: commons:Category:Images donated by York Museums Trust
Other Commons Category(s):
commons:Category:Images from the York Museums Trust Online Collection


YMT hosted a Wikipedian in Residence (Oct 2013 - Apr 2014) and hosts the regional Yorkshire Network Project (July 2014 - July 2015). These were funded by Wikimedia UK.
The online collection has several thousand openly licensed images. The image policy is useful for ensuring proper attribution and reuse. If users transfer images from the collection they can use the Commons template: YMT Online Collections.

Contact us

Website: http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/
Digital Team Leader: martin.fell@ymt.org.uk

Pat Hadley
Yorkshire Wikimedia Ambassador:patrick.hadley@ymt.org.uk
On Wikipedia: User:PatHadley
Discuss the project on the talkpage