The Triumph Werke Scooter
Collections, Engagement, Featured, Learning, Social HistoryCareers For All student Abu swots us up on his favourite object in the Leeds Discovery Centre collection: the Triumph Werke scooter.
Transcribing the Past
200th Birthday, Archaeology, Collections, Engagement, Featured, Projects & Partnerships, VolunteersVolunteers share their experience working on the transcription of a notebook, found in the rubble of Leeds City Museum after the Leeds Blitz of 1941.
The Tiger Who Came to Leeds
Collections, Colonial Histories, Featured, Natural ScienceThe 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.
Lanuvium and the Leeds Blitz
200th Birthday, Archaeology, Collections, Engagement, Featured, VolunteersThis 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?
Dead Inspiring Women in Science: Rachel Carson
Dead Inspiring, Engagement, Featured, Natural Science, VolunteersCelebrate International Women's Day with the story of scientist Rachel Carson, who exposed the harmful effects of pesticides.
Happy Birthday Decimal Currency
Featured, Numismatics50 years ago we swapped shillings for pounds. Kat Baxter explores the switch to Decimal Currency through objects in our collection in our latest blog.