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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Global award put Leeds learning project top of the class
Leeds City Museum News, NewsMuseums in Leeds have scooped a top international award for an innovative project to bring history to life in classrooms across the city.
A panel of experts from leading museums around Europe named Leeds Museums and Galleries the joint winner of the Children in Museums Award for the Leeds Curriculum.
Developed in partnership with more than 40 arts and culture organisations and 30 primary schools in Leeds, the project aims to pool the knowledge of learning and arts professionals in the city in an online resource.
Teachers from across Leeds can access a trove of information covering everything from prehistoric Leeds to the stories behind the city’s top sports teams and life in Leeds today.
Using key objects from the 1.3million items in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, the creative resources aim to support learning professionals with their own syllabuses.
Leeds was up against other museums from 13 different countries and shares the award with Creaviva Children’s Museum, Bern.
As well as a cash prize of 2,500 Euros, the museums service will host a bronze statue of Miffy, the world-famous children’s character created by Dick Bruna for the next six months. The sculptor is Marc Bruna, Dick Bruna’s younger son.
Kate Fellows, Leeds Museums and Galleries head of learning and access, said: “We’re absolutely thrilled and honoured to be presented with this prestigious award and to be recognised in a field which includes so many fantastic museums around the world.
“Working in partnership with our fantastic learning professionals, museums can play such a pivotal role in engaging and educating young people and hopefully inspiring a lifelong love of culture, history and heritage.
“I’m immensely proud of the work our team has done to make the Leeds Curriculum such an accessible, comprehensive and exciting learning resource and to see this unique project go from strength to strength.”
The Children in Museum Award was established in 2011 by the European Museum Academy and Hands On! International Association of Children in Museums to enhance the recognition of excellence in the specific sector of international children’s museums.
Awards judges praised the Leeds Curriculum, saying “This project is exceptional in terms of its potential to have a long-term impact on the children of Leeds and the scale of engagement across the city’s cultural organisations.”
Leeds Museums and Galleries has won a number of top industry awards in recent years.
In 2021 the innovative Closing the COVID Gap project won a prestigious Museums and Heritage Award for learning. The previous year, Careers for All, also run by Leeds Museums and Galleries was named Museums and Heritage Award Learning Programme of the Year 2020. In 2019, The Leeds Curriculum learning resource also won Educational Initiative of the Year.
Councillor Jonathan Pryor, Leeds City Council’s executive member for economy, culture and education, said: “Our museums service has been an integral part of learning in Leeds for many years now and over the past few years in particular, has proved an absolutely invaluable resource for teachers and learning professionals.
“I’d like to say a huge congratulations to the service for winning yet another top award and to thank them for their exceptional and inspiring efforts.”
Leigh-Anne Stradeski, Chair of the Children In Museums Award panel and Chief Executive of Eureka! the National Children’s Museum in Halifax, said: “It is only the second time since its inception that two museums have shared the Miffy award, and this attests to the exceptional nature of both the Leeds Curriculum project and Creaviva’s Children Curate Klee project.”