
The Secret Life of the Leeds Tiger
(OLD) Leeds City Museum, (OLD) Natural History, (OLD) Natural Sciences, (OLD) TaxidermyThe Leeds Tiger over at Leeds City Museum is one of our best-loved exhibits, but how did it get here and was it really once a rug?
Thanks to some amazing research by Ebony Andrews, (in her PhD thesis ‘The Biographical Afterlife of the…

Taking Care of our Taxidermy Collection
(OLD) Behind the Scenes, (OLD) Collections, (OLD) Conservation, (OLD) Leeds City Museum, (OLD) Leeds Discovery Centre, (OLD) Natural History, (OLD) Natural Sciences, (OLD) TaxidermyFind out what it takes to care for over 700,000 specimens in our Natural Science collection.

Museums and extinct species
(OLD) Birds, (OLD) Collections, (OLD) Natural History, (OLD) Natural Sciences, (OLD) Ornithology, (OLD) TaxidermyNatural science collections contain some of the huge biodiversity on our planet, including rare and extinct species.