Venues

Lego figurines of David Bowie. A person in the background is wearing Bowie style makeup and reaching for the figurines.

Starman super fan helps museum celebrate Bowie’s golden years

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A one-of-kind collection of memorabilia charting the glittering career of David Bowie has gone on display in Leeds, 50 years after the legendary Starman dazzled the city.

Poppy Wingate: Temple Newsam’s Golfing Pioneer

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Poppy Wingate was England’s first professional woman golfer, and she began her career right here at Temple Newsam.

The Greener Museum: A Case Study For Sustainably Redisplaying A Museum Gallery

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Curator Clare Brown explains how we tried to make the Life On Earth gallery as planet-friendly as possible.
A black and white photograph of tall buildings in Victorian Leeds

Football Works

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Curator Lucy Moore examines one leaflet from our social history collection and reveals a little known corner of Leeds’ sporting past.
A case in the Life on Earth gallery with taxidermy animals including a jaguar and a peccary.

The Greener Museum: A Case Study for Environmental Messaging in Museums

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Curator Clare Brown talks through new approaches to climate change messaging in the revamped Life On Earth Gallery.

A Tale of Two Widowhoods

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Discover the stories of two women born 170 years apart who both left their mark on Temple Newsam House.