Putting 100-year-old penguin on ice is a happy feat for museum curators
Leeds Discovery Centre News, NewsA museum’s magnificent stuffed penguin will spend the next two weeks chilling out in a giant, state-of-the-art freezer as curators give damaging bugs and beetles the cold shoulder.
The impressive emperor penguin has been put on ice at Leeds…
Introducing the Collections in Dialogue commission with Leeds Art Gallery and the British Library
Collections, Fine Art, Leeds Discovery CentreI am an artist based in Leeds working across sculpture, writing, installation, drawing and print and I’ve been selected as the artist in residency for Collections in Dialogue, a co-commission project by the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery.…
Family helps museum piece together Yorkshire’s prehistoric fossil flipper find
Leeds Discovery Centre News, NewsFor teenage fossil hunter Pauline Hoggard, it was truly the find of a lifetime.
One summer’s day in 1949, the eagle-eyed 16-year-old spotted the spectacular remains of a fearsome marine reptile, preserved millions of years ago in what was…