Leeds City Museum

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 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.
Audience Development Officer Sara Merritt looks at a hermarium page from the collections

Botanist’s spectacular collection revealed during night at the museum

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Precious 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…
Curator of Archaeology holding a sceat

Museum’s new tiny treasure is small change

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Leeds Museums & Galleries have acquired a tiny sceat which has been pierced to be used as a piece of jewellery.
A sepia photograph of a captain in the army

Captain James Walker Foreman

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Leeds-born Captain James Walker Foreman flew 637 hours on the front line in World War One, and survived a bullet wound from below.
Grandma the taxidermy panda being conserved by curator of natural science, Rebecca Machin

Paws for thought as museum’s menagerie gets a makeover

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A 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…