Today is the perfect opportunity to read ‘A Christmas Carol,’ but did you know Dickens was inspired by his trip to Malton? Read all about the literary connection here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/12/19/c...

Our volunteer, Simon Green, appeared on BBC Radio York to discuss Malton’s connections with Charles Dickens! Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today marks 182 years since the publication of Charles Dickens' literary classic, A Christmas Carol. (19th December 1843) To read more about Dickens’ connection with Malton, visit our blog post here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/12/19/c...

Our Chair, Phil Crabtree, recently shared his views on the Autumn Statement in @yorkshirepost.co.uk, highlighting the potential of the arts to transform struggling communities and sharing our campaign for a new home for Malton Museum. Read the article here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/12/07/t...

Today is International Volunteer Day! Malton Museum consists entirely of volunteers, who provide a welcoming environment for our visitors, care for the museum’s historic collections, and overall run the museum to showcase local history. #InternationalVolunteerDay

Our 'Beer and Brewing' town tour is tomorrow! Meet our tour guides outside the Milton Rooms at 11:30 am.

Don’t forget - we are conducting our popular ‘Beer and brewing’ tour during the Malton St Clement's Festival on Saturday! The tour commences at 11:30 am outside the Milton Rooms and will conclude at Brass Castle Brewery, where you are welcome to indulge in Malton’s brewing heritage 🍻

A huge thank you to all who attended our Big Malton Quiz last night! 100 people gathered together at The Milton Rooms to battle it out for Quiz Supremacy - congratulations to Team The Quarryman, who took first place!

There is another chance to join our 'Beer and Brewing' tour! During the St. Clements Festival, we'll conduct a tour exploring Malton’s rich brewing history, discovering small unlicensed brewers, local breweries such as Russell’s, big names like Tetley’s, and modern microbreweries like Brass Castle.

It's Thank You Friday again! Today we're celebrating all the people who have donated to our new museum kickstarter fund. We've been touched not only by people's generosity, but by the thoughtful ways donors are using our dog plaque scheme to remember the people (and dogs!) who matter to them.

Malton Museum is now closed for the 2025 season and will reopen in Spring 2026! In the year we celebrated the museum’s 90th birthday, we had another successful Roman Festival, The Malton Regency Ball, sold-out town tours, fascinating lectures, an exhibit on local brewing history, and...

There are just a few days remaining of the 2025 season at Malton Museum! We are open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:30 am to 3:30 pm.

There is another chance to join us on our ‘Beer and Brewing’ town tour during the St.Clement’s Festival! Saturday 22nd November, 11:30 am Book your tickets here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki...

Something new is coming to Malton this half term... our Malton Time Traveller Campaign! 6 knitted Roman figures have been hidden in shops and windows around Malton – can you find them all? Visit our website to take part in this free challenge - perfect for keeping your little Romans entertained!

There is just one week remaining of the 2025 season before the museum closes for the winter! Explore some of the highlights of 2025 as we showcase the museum in its 90th year, featuring counterfeits from Victorian forger Flint Jack and an impressive exhibit highlighting local brewing history.

The Malton Museum Quiz is back! Join us on Thursday 13th November at 7:30 pm in the Milton Rooms for an evening of trivia. The quiz will include picture rounds, a music round, and plenty of general knowledge questions, including a couple surrounding the history of our town.

Last few day's of malton museum 90 this year. End of season 1st november. #malton @maltonmuseum.bsky.social

There is still chance to purchase tickets for the Malton Regency Ball! Visit our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/.../malton-r... 📍The Milton Rooms, Malton ⏰ Friday 17th October, 7pm - 11pm

Did you manage to attend our talk with Dr Simon Elliott last week? If not, you missed out! We were fascinated to learn about Septimius Severus, the subject of Simon's latest book, who ruled over the Roman Empire between 193 and 211 CE, dying nearby in York.

There is still chance to purchase tickets for the Malton Regency Ball! Visit our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/.../malton-r... 📍The Milton Rooms, Malton ⏰ Friday 17th October, 7pm - 11pm

The Regency Era refers to the period 1811-1820, but Regency fashion extended beyond this, overlapping the late Georgian and early Victorian periods, 1795-1837. Georgian fashion was an elaborate display of elegance and wealth, featuring wide hooped skirts, fitted bodices and intricate details.

Meet Malton’s Ghostly Chalk Warriors our Object of The Month 👋- they’ve been striking this pose for over 2,000 years and still haven’t dropped their standards 📷. Want to know what they reveal about Iron Age bravery? Click the link below to find out… www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/10/09/o...

Severus Marches On! Malton, and a pleasure to help raise funds for the new @maltonmuseum.bsky.social !!!

There is just one week to go until the Malton Regency Ball! Book your tickets on our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki... #regency #georgianera #nineteenthcentury #regencyball #history #museum

Thanks to everyone who attended @simonelliott20.bsky.social's talk on Septimius Severus. It was great to be able to ask questions and be in the presence of a true enthusiast - thank you Simon! If you missed it, we have a few copies of The African Emperor available to purchase in our shop.

Can you help revitalise this much loved building into a museum fit to tell Malton & Norton's story?! Currently, visitors to our museum in Yorkersgate tell us how much they love the warm welcome provided by our volunteers, the amazing objects in our collection, and the creative way we tell the...

Today is World Architecture Day! 🏛️ Malton Museum is currently situated in the Subscription Rooms, where it first opened in 1935. The Subscription Rooms, however, have been around much longer, having been commissioned by the Fitzwilliam family and built during the Regency Era in 1814.

For our next Friends Lecture, Vic Jay will discuss his research on a group of pilots’ wartime experience on the Lancaster Bomber; they were known as the Mallon Crew. This biography explores how seven men volunteered for the Air Force, how chance brought them together, and what happened to them.

October is Black History Month, and ahead of his talk on The African Emperor on 9 October, guest blogger @simonelliott20.bsky.social shares some insights into Septimius Severus' life and achievements. Go to our blog www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/09/30/g...

During the Georgian Era, race meetings were prevalent among the gentry. Horse racing flourished in Malton and Norton, with race meetings tracing back to the seventeenth century; these posters are just two of many from the Regency period, dating October 1817 and 1818, respectively.

It's #ThankYouFriday! And this week we're thanking everybody who has generously contributed to our new museum kickstarter fund. We're thrilled that so many of you are helping us take the first step to achieving a welcoming, modern and exciting museum worthy of showcasing local heritage.

Septimus Severus was born in what is now modern-day Libya in AD 145, and rose to power to become Roman Emperor in AD 193 after defeating his rivals. Comprised of 50,000 men, the emperor and his army set out to Britain in AD 208 as part of a Roman military establishment, leaving a mighty legacy.

There is just one month to go until the Malton Regency Ball! Join us on Friday 17th October at 7pm for dancing and refreshments to help raise money for Malton Museum and SWR Mindspace.

Tomorrow is the first Friends of Malton Museum lecture of the season! 7:30 pm in the new classrooms in The West Wing, Malton School. Tickets £5 for guests, FREE for Friends of Malton Museum. No need to book. Please visit our website for more details on the Friends of Malton Museum.

Join us tomorrow for the ‘Beer and Brewing in Malton’ town tour 🍻 The tour commences outside the Milton Rooms at 3:30 pm and ends at Brass Castle, where you’re welcome to linger and taste Malton’s brewing history!

Brewing has been a key industry in Malton since the mid-18th century, with Rose’s and Russell’s being the two main breweries in town. Rose’s was founded in 1767 by Charles Rose and operated in The Old Brewery in Castlegate. Meanwhile, The Derwent Brewery, founded by James Russell, opened in 1771.

The 'Horses in Malton' town tour is tomorrow! You can purchase tickets at the door, but we recommend buying in advance. You can book online via our website here - www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki... 📷 Trainer Mr J R Renwick, Whitewall, Norton: The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, c.1900

Amazing to see we've already hit 1% of our £60k target! Can you help us get closer to our goal, and closer to giving Malton the museum it deserves? Link below - click to donate! 🙏 www.justgiving.com/campaign/mal....

Did you know Daniel Defoe visited Malton during his tour of Britain in the 1720s? He narrates that ‘This Town is divided into two Parts, by the River, which are called Old and New Malton…The Town is well-built and inhabited, and has two well-supplied weekly Markets, which are held by Prescription;

“Richard III Yorkshire, Hero or Tyrant?” Richard III was a notorious Yorkist king in the fifteenth century, whose reign concluded when he was killed in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, which subsequently resulted in the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the commencement of the Tudor era.

Following the death of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of the monarchy in the 1660s, horse racing was revived after being banned under the protectorate of Cromwell. Sir William Strickland arrived in Malton in 1684 and commenced the long association with the racing industry.

Between writing, filming here in Yorkshire and further afield in Pompeii (pictured here with Dan Snow), we're not sure how @simonelliott20.bsky.social has time to lecture, but we're glad that he does! Join us in the Assembly Rooms on 9 October at 7pm to celebrate the launch of his latest book.

www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/event/lectur... More Severus action! Do join me at lovely @maltonmuseum.bsky.social on the 7th of October to celebrate the launch of The African Emperor! @alexharvv.bsky.social @davidebb.bsky.social @romanarchaeouk.bsky.social @petesavin.bsky.social

Did you know Daniel Defoe visited Malton during his tour of Britain in the 1720s? He narrates that ‘This Town is divided into two Parts, by the River, which are called Old and New Malton…The Town is well-built and inhabited, and has two well-supplied weekly Markets, which are held by Prescription;

We're excited to be welcoming @simonelliott20.bsky.social to deliver the next lecture at Malton Museum on Thursday 9 October. He will launch his latest book, 'The African Emperor - The Life of Septimius Severus'. Afterwards, there will be a Q&A and the chance to purchase a signed copy of his book.

The Regency era refers to the period 1811-1820, during which the Prince of Wales, George IV, acted as Prince Regent due to King George III’s mental illness, which left him incapacitated and therefore unfit to rule. The era witnessed significant social, political, and cultural changes, with the...

Today is #NationalDogDay! You may have noticed that the Malton Museum logo features a dog, but where did the inspiration come from? The emblem is based on part of the Roman Town House mosaic that was discovered during excavations in Orchard Fields. The overall mosaic design within the Town...

Our popular Horses in Malton town tour is back! 🐎 This tour around the centre of Malton explores the relationship of both Malton and Norton with the horse, from having the largest horse markets in the country in the Medieval period, to the many 18th century coaching inns, and its fame as one of…

Tomorrow is the 'River...Road...Railway' town tour! Join our knowledgeable guides as they take you along a stretch of riverbank via Navigation Wharf, now a forgotten backwater, telling the story of Malton’s 18th and 19th-century transport and trade.