ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS ART GALLERY
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed
Tues -Sat: 10am – 5pm
Sun: 11am – 3pm
Address
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
LEEDS CITY MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (11am – 5pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun: 11am – 5pm
Address
Leeds City Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 8BH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS DISCOVERY CENTRE
Opening Hours
Visits by appointment/special event only.
Free public store tours are now available by booking in advance. Please call or email us.
Address
Leeds Discovery Centre
Off Carlisle Road
Leeds
LS10 1LB
LEEDS INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed (10am – 5pm on bank holiday Mondays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun: 12 – 5pm
Last admission one hour before closing.
Address
Canal Road
Leeds
LS12 2QF
KIRKSTALL ABBEY
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (10am – 4pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Sun: 10am – 4pm
Last admission: 3.30pm
Address
Abbey Road
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LOTHERTON
Opening Hours
Open Daily
Estate opens: 8am
Hall: Closed
Wildlife World: 10am – 4pm
Estate closes: 7pm
Last entry 45 mins before estate closing time
TEMPLE NEWSAM
Opening Hours
House: Tues – Sun: 10.30am – 5pm
Home Farm: Tues – Sun: 10am – 4pm
Last entry 45 minutes before
THWAITE WATERMILL
Opening Hours
Mon – Fri: closed (open 10am – 4pm during school holidays)
Sat – Sun: 12 – 4pm
Last admission: 3pm
Address
Thwaite Lane
Stourton
Leeds
LS10 1RP
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Installing Skeletons: Our Buried Bones
CollectionsCurator Ruth Martin answers the age old question: what does it take to change the temporary exhibition gallery from one show to another?
On Tuesday 29 August we started to say goodbye to For All Seasons: our family friendly, hands-on exploration of the seasons.
The previous exhibition For All Seasons in the temporary exhibition space at Leeds City Museum.
The first major change that we needed to make for Skeletons: Our Buried Bones was the colour. Instead of the light, bright and airy feel in For All Seasons, we needed to create something much more atmospheric and fitting for the new exhibition. So in came a lot of very dark grey paint…
Repainting the walls of the temporary exhibition space dark grey
As the exhibition is a touring partnership with Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London, and it has come to Leeds from Bristol, the kit of parts that you’ll see in the exhibition also had to make their way up the motorway to Leeds.
Installing the cases
Once all the cases were in place, we could make a start on installing the skeletons. These are all laid out anatomically, on black gravel. This painstaking installation work was done by Jelena Bekvalac and Rebecca Redfern, Osteologists from the Museum of London.
We also undertook some conservation on some of the bones. Here you can see where Helen Butler from Museum of London has repaired a pelvis. Once the adhesive, which is completely reversible, was dry, the tape was removed.
Pelvis repaired with reversible adhesive
Alongside each skeleton is an image of where they were found, taken by Thomas Adank. Not only are these gorgeous images, they also make the point that our ancestors are all around us: buried under our feet and still almost a part of our day to day lives. This image is one of my favourites from the exhibition, and shows the section of A1 where two Iron Age skeletons, a man and woman buried in a grave together, were found.
Two iron age skeletons (found buried in a grave together) with an image of the section of the A1 where they were found.
As well as the main display of skeletons, we’ve created a Leeds Lab in the exhibition where you can get on your white coat and have a go at being an Osteoarchaeologist. Creating these activities gave us a few problems to solve – how to attach fake bones to a table is not something I’ve ever had to think about before. This part of the gallery has lots of hands on activities to try, and it really complements the scientific evidence on display in the main exhibition.
When the work was all complete, and after the gallery was given a final clean, we were ready for press previews. We opened the gallery up to TV, radio and photographers who jumped at the chance to come and interview Jelena and Rebecca from Museum of London, as well as to get up close to the finished display.
TV, radio broadcasters and photographers at the press preview for Skeletons: Our Buried Bones
And just a few hours after this photograph was taken, we opened our preview for invited guests – the next day we were open to the public.
By Ruth Martin, Exhibitions Curator
Skeletons: Our Buried Bones is open until Sunday 7 January 2018.
Skeletons: Our Buried Bones is a collaboration between Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London, touring to Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds over 2016-2018.