Leeds City Museum

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While our museums and galleries are closed in response to coronavirus (COVID-19), we invite you to experience Leeds Museums & Galleries from home and discover exhibitions, online activities and collections.

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Leeds City Museum

We are temporarily closed until further notice

Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 8BH
Mummification at the Museum

Leeds City Museum

Explore our activities and videos on Ancient Egypt

Mummification activities

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Six galleries and a programme of family friendly exhibitions in the heart of Leeds

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Fast x Slow Fashion

ONLINE EXHIBIT

Intricately detailed cloth with the corner of a black and white photograph of two women wearing period clothing

Exploring the relationship between clothes shopping and people in Leeds, from 1720 to the present day.

Discover how clothes shops have changed, and how people have sought alternative ways to consume fashion.

Explore the Fast x Slow fashion exhibition

Long-finned Pilot Whale

The skeleton of our 152-year-old long-finned pilot whale is now on display at Leeds City Museum.

We have affectionately named him Swale (Yorkshire slang for ‘it’s a whale’) and you can now visit him outside the Life on Earth gallery. Come along to see him, discover his grizzly past and find out more about what we can do to protect our oceans.

This project has been funded with the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Learn more about the project