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Leeds Discovery Centre

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Please note: Leeds Museums and Galleries website will undergo essential maintenance on Tuesday 27 January from 12pm to 1pm.

Our venues will be open as normal. We recommend booking tickets in advance where possible.

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Visitor information including opening times, directions and access information.
What's on
Explore our incredible museum store, get close to objects and enjoy fun family sessions.
Learn
Workshops for schools and home educators, outreach programmes and schools membership.
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Research and enquiries

Researchers and students can consult our collections in our dedicated research room and can attend object handling sessions with our friendly and knowledgeable staff.

Research and enquiries

Access information
Find out about accessibility, baby changing and toilet facilities, parking and more.
The Collection Store
Explore our collections of over 1 million objects at Leeds Discovery Centre.
Community
We can arrange bespoke visits and events for community groups and organisations.
Venue hire
Hire Leeds Discovery Centre for meetings, training or team away days.
Group visits
Organise a group visit for a unique trip out.

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News | Ancient discoveries reveal fascinating highway through history

Ancient artefacts unearthed and collected during the construction of a huge Leeds transport project have been preserved at a Leeds museum.

News | Historic Cauldron Find Lifts Lid on City’s Spirited Past

A mysterious iron cauldron sealed inside the walls of a Victorian house more than a century ago in a ritual to ward off evil spirits has been revealed in Leeds.

News | City’s museums receive essential funding boost

Museums in Leeds have secured almost a million pounds in funding to help safeguard their future and support a series of transformational projects at historic sites across the city.

News | Amorous arachnids searching for love on the web during spider season

Spiders weaving their way into homes across the country this autumn are out “looking for love” museum experts in Leeds have revealed.

News | Museums give city economy multi-million pound boost

The city’s council-run museums and galleries have given a massive £47.3m boost to the local economy over the past year, new figures have revealed.

News | Call to help support city’s museums though new donation scheme

Council-run museums and galleries in Leeds are launching a new donation scheme enabling visitors to support some of the city’s most popular cultural gems.

Blog | National Biscuit Day From The Archive

Celebrate national biscuit day with our extraordinarily well-preserved, century-old biscuit carries a poignant festive message from the front lines of the First World War.

News | Museum takes time to pay striking tribute to city’s classic clocks

Beautiful vintage clocks will take museum visitors in Leeds on a journey through time this week.

News | City’s tiny Saxon treasure has a big story to tell

A beautiful ancient Saxon pendant buried for more than 1,200 years in a Leeds field is giving experts a fascinating glimpse into life in early medieval Yorkshire.

News | Experts a whisker away from discovering secrets of hippo’s facial fuzz

Museum experts in Leeds are bristling with excitement after their resident hippo’s fabulous facial hair was studied during new research into the inner workings of whiskers.

News | Mummy’s micro morsel discovered in museum’s tiny treasure trove

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian’s mummified remains has been discovered amongst an astonishing collection of microscopic treasures in Leeds.

News | Museum project breathes new life into precious antique plants

Hundreds of thousands of antique plants and flowers carefully preserved for centuries will be given new life thanks to a fascinating environmental history project in Leeds.

News | Museum’s top-flight conservation effort is for the birds

A collection of antique avian giants, spectacularly preserved in time more than a century ago, has been given some top-flight conservation by museum experts in Leeds.

Blog | How Museums Can Help Schools With Recovery Curriculums

After the pandemic lockdown, we now recognise the importance of our museums and galleries in providing genuine, authentic, accessible experiences. A large part of that is giving schoolchildren access to their cultural heritage in the city. See how these experiences are evolving post-lockdown.

Blog | Gloves: Fashion and Meaning

At the Leeds Discovery Centre we have a huge collection of different clothing from a variety of places and time periods. One item of clothing that has an interesting and storied history are gloves.

Blog | The Bird Egg Collection

Claire Miles explores our Bird Egg collection at Leeds City Museum, after taking over the immense task of documenting over 8000 – 10000 eggs in our museum collections database and making some wonderful discoveries.

News | Soldiers’ moving biscuit messages are food for thought this Christmas

Poignant festive messages inscribed on biscuits by soldiers and sent back home from the front lines of the First World War have been revealed in Leeds.

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