Malton Roman Festival 2025
THE EMPIRE IS BACK - MALTON MUSEUM ROMAN FESTIVAL and tickets are now live here: Roman Festival 2025: tickets now on sale!! - Malton Museum
Date: Sunday July 20th
Time 10:30am to 4pm
Tickets: Adults £10 | Kids 14 -18 years £5 | Kids under 14yrs free.
Malton Museum is celebrating it’s 90th birthday this year. Founded in 1935 it was first called The Roman Malton Museum. It had been created in response to a series of archaeological excavations conducted around the town which uncovered some exciting finds, asserting the importance of Delgovicia in the Roman world.
The Museum works hard at its community engagement by doing lectures, town tours and Roman experience visits to local schools. As part of our 90th birthday celebrations, the museum is inviting you to make 2025 the year you get involved, whether that's by visiting the museum, volunteering, or attending one of our events.
We've also commissioned local print artist Emily Burns to create a limited run of 90 prints inspired by an item in our collection. The Goddess of Malton is her interpretation of a Roman fresco uncovered in the town and now on display in the museum. Pop into the museum or Roman Festival to purchase your own copy!
Four years ago, it launched its largest ever community project by hosting the Roman Festival. It was a great success and since then has gone on to grow and evolve into one of the most exciting historically themed family days out in the area.
Organised completely by volunteers and funded by grants from local businesses and other agencies, the 2025 Roman Festival will once again celebrate life as it once was in Delgovicia.
The central element of the festival is our Re-enactment groups, with Legio VI Victrix, Magister Militum, Longthorpe Legion and the Brigantes of Wincobank in their camp as well as the wonderful Equistry with their Roman Cavalry displays.
Other groups such as Sylvankin, Lena the Aerialist and artisans will once demonstrate craftsmanship and skills of daily Roman life as do our Roman history researchers, archaeologists, authors and talks, all of whom will have something interesting to show or tell.
The Roman Festival makes a great emphasis on the family day out, if we can inspire future historians and archaeologists, then our local history is safe for years to come. To that end, our kids activities will include tile, sword and shield painting, mosaic making, dressing up, Roman games, axe and plumbata throwing, which we hope will challenge their conceptions of life for Roman children against their own in modern day. They can even join the Roman Legion!
Our food and drink outlets complete the set up for a great family fun day.
For more information on the Museum, volunteering or the Roman Festival, please see our website www.maltonmuseum.co.uk
Notes for editors
The settlement of Delogovicia was a calvary base and established around AD71.
Formerly thought to be Derventio, recent research has suggested that Derventio was more likely to have been Stamford Bridge and Delogvicia is now the more widely accepted name for the Orchard Field site.
Malton Museum reopened for the season on 3rd April and has many items from the fort and local villas such as Langton and Hovingham on display.