Collections

The Triumph Werke Scooter

Collections, Engagement, Featured, Learning, Social History

Careers For All student Abu swots us up on his favourite object in the Leeds Discovery Centre collection: the Triumph Werke scooter.

Sloped handwriting that is very scrawled with errors scribbled out

Transcribing the Past

Archaeology, Collections, Engagement, Featured, Projects & Partnerships, Volunteers

Volunteers share their experience working on the transcription of a notebook, found in the rubble of Leeds City Museum after the Leeds Blitz of 1941.

A sideways look at the taxidermy tiger at Leeds City Museum

The Tiger Who Came to Leeds

Collections, Featured, Natural Science

The tiger on display at Leeds City Museum is one of our most well-known and popular objects. Curator Clare explores its troublesome origins, and how it came to be in our collection.

A handwritten page showing a list of objects written in very small hard to read writing

Lanuvium and the Leeds Blitz

Archaeology, Collections, Engagement, Featured, Volunteers

This notebook contains lists of objects unearthed from the rubble left by the Leeds Blitz in 1941. But how did they come to be here in the first place?

A black and white photograph of a woman looking into a microscope with a notebook next to her

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Time & Life Pictures, Getty Images

Dead Inspiring Women in Science: Rachel Carson

Dead Inspiring, Engagement, Featured, Natural Science, Volunteers

Celebrate International Women's Day with the story of scientist Rachel Carson, who exposed the harmful effects of pesticides.

Happy Birthday Decimal Currency

Featured, Numismatics

50 years ago we swapped shillings for pounds. Kat Baxter explores the switch to Decimal Currency through objects in our collection in our latest blog.