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 – 4.30pm
Last admission: 4pm
Address
Abbey Road
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LOTHERTON
Opening Hours
Open Daily
Estate opens: 7.30am
Hall: Open (Downstairs only) 10am-5pm
Wildlife World: 10am – 5pm
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 – 5pm
Last entry 45 minutes before
THWAITE WATERMILL
Address
Thwaite Lane
Stourton
Leeds
LS10 1RP
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Bringing WW1 Photographs to Life in 3D
Engagement, Legacy project: Commemorating WW1 2015-2018, Projects & Partnerships, VolunteersA group of volunteers have helped to curate a World War One themed display case in the Leeds Stories area of Leeds City Museum. As well as carefully selecting objects to put in the case itself, some photographs from the era are shown on a digital display screen.
Instead of showing the original photographs, which are fragile and can gradually fade when exposed to light, the digitally scanned images will be made into a scrolling ‘slideshow’ for visitors to watch, with no danger of the photographs being damaged. This gives us more room inside the display case to put objects in, and also opens up the possibility of trying out new digital techniques to bring some of the images ‘to life’.
Leeds Museums & Galleries have several stereoscopic image cards in the collection, including ones showing scenes from World War One. A stereoscopic card looks like this (see below):
A stereoscope card showing ‘Where the Flower of our Army buried back the Prussian Guards, Beury Chateau, Festubert’.
Two side by side images that look almost the same, but when inserted into a viewing device, give an illusion of seeing the scene in 3D. They were popular at the beginning of the last century, and today, many of us are familiar with viewing stereoscopic images on our mobile phones, inserted into devices like the ‘Google Cardboard’.
The stereoscopic cards gave me the idea to try and display the images as 3D on the screen at Leeds City Museum, but without visitors having to use a special viewing device.
The New York Public Library has already been inviting visitors to its Stereograminator website to animate some of its collection of stereoscopic cards, which we found inspiring, but we had concerns about the jerkiness of the image and the strobing effect. After trying out a piece of software called ‘3D Wiggle’ I managed to make these short animated videos that give a flavour of the 3D effect.
There were also ‘normal’ (i.e – not stereoscopic) photographs that I attempted to give a 3D treatment, using a website called DEPTHY which was more successful, and I then applied the technique to both ‘normal’ photographs and the stereoscope cards. (With the stereoscopes, I picked one side of the card).
As you can see below, DEPTHY works by the user creating a ‘depth map’ of the image – this means telling the software how far away things are from each other in the image, by drawing it on in different shades of grey. The darker the grey, the nearer the object is in the image.
A screen shot from my computer, as I began drawing in the depth map
We hope that by making the photos 3D, the viewer will be drawn in and visitors can connect with the people in the photograph in a new way.
By Helen Hesketh, volunteer.
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