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A Roland synthesiser which features as an object in the Lotherton exhibition Making Japan: Art. Culture. Life — New exhibition opens at Lotherton celebrating Japanese culture: Making Japan – Art. Culture. Life
Making Japan
A new exhibition is taking visitors to Lotherton…
03 March 2020/by Sara Merritt

Museums n'That — Museums n’That podcast goes live with first episode available to stream now
Museums n'That podcast launch
Leeds Museums & Galleries…
27 February 2020/by Sara Merritt

Curator Vanessa Jones adjusts a red suit on a mannequin as part of the Fast x Slow Fashion exhibition at Leeds City Museum — Fast x Slow Fashion opens at Leeds City Museum
New exhibition at Leeds City Museum
An elegant exhibition charting…
14 February 2020/by Sara Merritt

Leeds Museums & Galleries Statement on Human Remains

11 Feb 2020

Statement

Leeds Museums and Galleries is committed…

11 February 2020/by Sara Merritt

Image of mummy entering the MRI scanner — Research project recreates sound of museum’s famous mummy
23 Jan 2020

An ancient Egyptian priest who spoke his final…
24 January 2020/by Lizzy Wilson

Rebecca Machin, curator of natural sciences, with Leeds Museums and Galleries Plesiosaur skeleton — Ples to meet you as prehistoric predator finds new home
23 Jan 2020
The fossilised remains of a spectacular marine reptile…
23 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

Kitty Ross, Curator of Social History, with a glass harp — Museum’s unusual instrument is a real glass act
16 Jan 2020

For Georgian virtuosos, it was the ideal instrument…
20 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

A choir at Abbey House Museum — Great expectations as museum becomes the host of Christmas past
9 Dec 2019

It’s just the type of picture perfect Dickensian…
20 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

Artist Helen Dryden holding the original WW1 image which has been transformed into a 3D 'moving image' — Historic WW1 photos brought to life for moving museums display
2 Dec 2019

Copies of the moving 3D images can be downloaded…
20 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

A group of young people with Leader Councillor Judith Blake at Leeds Town Hall — Town hall clock’s time capsule a striking reminder of modern Leeds
29 Nov 2019
For more than 160 years it's been a stalwart of…
20 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

Rebecca Machin, Curator of Natural Sciences standing beneath the re-articulated skeleton of a 152 year old long-finned pilot whale — Striking display brings museum’s Victorian whale to life
30 Oct 2019

The remains of a Victorian whale cruelly killed…
20 January 2020/by Sara Merritt

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Small blue motorised three wheel car — Mini motorised marvel parks up at Leeds museum
30 Sept 2019

With its quirky design, handlebar steering and…
30 September 2019/by Gina Churchill-Straffon

A black and white portrait of entrepreneur Betty Beecroft — Leeds ironworks innovator forged historic career
22 Sept 2019

She was Leeds’s own Iron lady whose steely…
07 October 2019/by Gina Churchill-Straffon

A lady looking at a modern piece of art suspended on a wooden pole — Leeds Art Gallery puts exciting UK talent in the frame
13 Sept 2019

A groundbreaking exhibition, which has…
07 October 2019/by Gina Churchill-Straffon