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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Face facts, museum’s new display of figures is ancient history
News11 April 2019
It’s a tradition which began 40,000 years ago with an artistic Stone Age human and a spare piece of mammoth tusk.
Now a new museum display in Leeds is bringing visitors face-to-face with some of the ancient effigies created by cultures around the world across eons of human history.
The new display case at Leeds City Museum includes almost 40 intricately carved statues and figures from civilisations including Ancient Egypt, Peru, Greece, Rome and Mexico.
Among the pieces on display are a group of figurines recovered from a tomb in Cyprus depicting musicians playing tambourines and making offerings from around 700 BC.
Other figures include a Roman woman draped in cloth dating from around AD 50 and figures of Tanit, the goddess of Carthage and Pan, Greek god of nature and rustic music from 200-300 BC as well as a head of Bhudda from India.
Katherine Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of archaeology, said the figures tell us a lot about how ancient cultures viewed both themselves and the world they lived in.
She said:
“Throughout human history, we know that people from different cultures and civilisations on virtually every continent have shared this creative impulse to make figures representing themselves and the people they saw around them.
“Sometimes these figures were used in rituals or religious practices, but they were also a way for the makers to express themselves and capture their impression of world they lived in.
“That desire to interpret the world through people is a common thread which links us to our ancient ancestors and which can still see today in everything from portraits and sculpture, to photography and social media.
“This collection of figures represents ancient examples of that craft and can teach us a lot about how it has evolved over the millennia.”
The oldest known sculpture of a human being, known as the Venus of Hohle Fels, was carved out of mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago and is housed at the Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren in Germany.
Faces from the Past can be found in Leeds City Museum’s Ancient Worlds Gallery, which is also home to a spectacular array of relics from ancient civilisations including the 3,000 year-old remains of Nesyamun, an Egyptian mummy.
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