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Ancient Egyptian Spirituality

Archaeology, Collections, Featured, Volunteers, Youth

Discover the stories of Ancient Egyptian spirituality told in the Ancient Worlds gallery at Leeds City Museum, and why we can still learn from them today.

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

200th Birthday, 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, Colonial Histories, 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

200th Birthday, 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?