Policies and Practice

Website Sustainability Commitment

In response to Leeds' climate emergency, Leeds Museums and Galleries share their website sustainability practices to best optimise their website to more sustainable.

Photography Policy

Leeds Museums & Galleries allows handheld, non-flash still photography by visitors for personal, non-commercial use wherever possible. It is the visitor's responsibility to ensure that no copyright is infringed.

Learning Policy

Learning is at the heart of Leeds Museums & Galleries (LM&G). We welcome, inspire and engage diverse audiences through our collections and enable them to build their own interpretations.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

Leeds Museums & Galleries (LM&G) is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of others.

Human Remains Policy

Leeds Museums and Galleries (LMG) acknowledges that human remains were once parts of living people and will care for them in a respectful manner while also making the collections available for research and engagement where appropriate.

Health and safety guidance for schools

This guidance is designed to assist teachers and group leaders in completing their own risk assessment during a familiarisation visit to Leeds Museums & Galleries venues before a group visit.

Evolution Position Statement

Leeds Museums & Galleries (LM&G) exist to collect, preserve and interpret historic, scientific and cultural collections and historic sites and use them as inspiration for educating, entertaining and informing the people of Leeds and visitors to the city.

Social Media Policy

We aim to create engaging social media content about our venues, collections and behind-the-scenes. We ask our social media community to respect the guidelines detailed in this policy.

Volunteer Policy

LMG has a commitment to the involvement of volunteers and believes that volunteers play a vital role in extending the scope of our work allowing us to add value to our services and helping to meet service need or demand and achieve our goals, which would not otherwise be possible.

Environmental Sustainability Policy

As a service we are responding to these policy challenges through initiatives both at service level and at different sites through see site development plans.

Collections Information Policy

Leeds Museums and Galleries is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights (IPR) of others. We also seek to protect, enhance and realise the commercial value of our own intellectual property in support of the mission of our service and in compliance with IPR legislation.

Collections Development Policy

Leeds Museums & Galleries (LM&G) exist to collect, preserve and interpret historic, scientific and cultural collections and historic sites and use them as inspiration for educating, entertaining and informing the people of Leeds as well as visitors to the city.

Care and Conservation Policy

Statement of Purpose Leeds Museums & Galleries (LMG) exists to collect, preserve and interpret historic, scientific and cultural collections and historic sites and use them as inspiration for educatin…

Access Commitment Statement

We know there are barriers to accessing our places and displays and are actively seeking to address them. We will listen to people and change our practices accordingly.