ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Monday: closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 5pm
Saturday: 12 – 5pm
Sunday: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Monday: closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 5pm
Saturday: 12 – 5pm
Sunday: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS ART GALLERY
Opening Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 3pm
Address
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
LEEDS CITY MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Monday: closed*
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11am – 5pm
*Open Bank Holiday Mondays 11am – 5pm
Address
Leeds City Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 8BH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS DISCOVERY CENTRE
Opening Hours
Visits by appointment 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 (open bank holiday Mondays only 10am-5pm)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun: 12 – 5pm
(last admission one hour before)
Address
Canal Road
Leeds
LS12 2QF
KIRKSTALL ABBEY
Opening Hours
Monday: closed*
Tuesday – Sunday: 10am – 4pm
Last admission: 3.30pm
*Open Bank Holiday Mondays 10am – 4pm
Address
Abbey Road
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LOTHERTON
Opening Hours
Open Daily
Estate opens: 8am
Hall: 10am – 5pm
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 – 5pm
Last entry 45 minutes before
THWAITE WATERMILL
Opening Hours
Mon – Fri: closed (open 10am – 4pm during the school holidays)
Sat – Sun: 12 – 4pm
Last admission: 3pm
Address
Thwaite Lane
Stourton
Leeds
LS10 1RP
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Youth Engagement in Museums
Engagement, Featured, Volunteers, YouthLike everyone who is in lockdown at the moment, I’m writing this whilst doing several other things. These include observing/refereeing a game of back garden football; helping a 9 year old understand fractions; and keeping up with obligatory banter in the Preservative Party’s WhatsApp group.
(The Preservative Party is Leeds City Museum’s young volunteers aged 14-24).
The Preservative Party on a Zoom call during the coronavirus lockdown.
Example:
Them: Here’s a tweet of a boss who accidentally turned themselves into a potato on a work Zoom. Bet Esther does that.
Me: Haha, yeah I probably will.
Me: Anyway, I’m writing a blog – why should museums even do youth engagement?
Them: Why not?
And that in a nutshell is it. Instead of justifying what I do, let’s look at why not.
For centuries, history itself has been elitist, and ‘ordinary’ voices have been ignored. This means not only have we not collected the stories of ‘everyday people’, but also the choice about whose story we tell and how we tell it has been made by a small number of people. As a museum of Leeds, it seems wrong to only be relevant to a small selection of people.
I often describe youth engagement as curation by democracy. Everyone gets a say. So, naturally, everything takes about thirty times longer than if I was to do it on my own, and is at least thirty times better.
A research trip to the West Yorkshire Archives for the Open Minds project, which displays and films the history of mental health in Leeds.
The Preservative Party is first and foremost a sociable and supportive group. It is through meeting every week at the museum and talking through our week that we get a taste about what is happening in our lives and what stories we should tell. It might look like we’re just eating Pringles and charging phones and messing about on Snapchat, but then, suddenly there’s a deadline, and an exhibition which really says something about migration, or protest, or teenage culture is pulled together. OK, so all the text arriving last minute by WhatsApp is perhaps not my chosen method of curation, but I’m coming to realise we don’t work well in spite of that, we work well BECAUSE of it. The Preservative Party is literally living curation. People under 24, observing, reflecting, questioning and narrating the world and their lives.
Callum and Lauren in front of a case they curated about the First World War.
Obviously, my question about the importance of youth engagement got loads of worthy responses (‘it makes history accessible’, ‘we offer a different perspective’) but actually I preferred the first response: ‘Why not?’. Why shouldn’t young people expect us to ask them what they think about our collections and the world? Why shouldn’t community groups expect us to involve them in actively documenting Leeds lives? Surely, we are Leeds City Museum? Collected, preserved and curated for, and by, Leeds.
By Esther Amis-Hughes, Youth Engagement Officer
Follow the Preservative Party on Twitter and Instagram. They don’t just tweet about Pringles and Netflix: they often want help collecting and telling people’s stories.