The Greener Museum: A Case Study For Sustainably Redisplaying A Museum Gallery
Engagement, Featured, Leeds City Museum, Leeds City Museum Blogs, Natural ScienceCurator Clare Brown explains how we tried to make the Life On Earth gallery as planet-friendly as possible.
The Greener Museum: A Case Study for Environmental Messaging in Museums
Engagement, Featured, Leeds City Museum, Natural ScienceCurator Clare Brown talks through new approaches to climate change messaging in the revamped Life On Earth Gallery.
Botanist’s spectacular collection revealed during night at the museum
Leeds City Museum News, NewsPrecious plants frozen in time by a blind botanist who identified specimens using his tongue will be explored during a special event in Leeds this week.
The work of famed 19th century collector John Grimshaw Wilkinson, a former grocer from…
Museum’s new tiny treasure is small change
Leeds City Museum, Leeds City Museum News, NewsLeeds Museums & Galleries have acquired a tiny sceat which has been pierced to be used as a piece of jewellery.
Captain James Walker Foreman
Collections, Engagement, Featured, Leeds City Museum, Legacy project: Commemorating WW1 2015-2018, Social History, Work experienceLeeds-born Captain James Walker Foreman flew 637 hours on the front line in World War One, and survived a bullet wound from below.
Paws for thought as museum’s menagerie gets a makeover
Leeds City Museum News, NewsA remarkable menagerie of endangered animals has been getting some delicate care and attention this week as curators prepare to open a new chapter in the story of life on Earth.
The one-of-a-kind collection of taxidermy at Leeds City Museum…