Our projects

Leeds 400

Leeds is a city of culture and heritage. Celebrate Leeds400 with Leeds Museums and Galleries. Discover stories of our collection and local history.

Creating a Heritage Framework for Leeds

What’s valuable about the culture and heritage of Leeds and what do we want to protect and pass on to the next generation? Leeds City Council and a wide range of culture and heritage partners in the city are seeking to answer that question.

‘The Holdings’ Poetry Project: Leeds Irish Health & Homes, Ian Duhig & Leeds Museums & Galleries

With generous financial support from LIHH, award-winning poet Ian Duhig was recruited to lead a series of poetry workshops at Leeds Industrial Museum with people of Irish heritage who live and work in Leeds.

Dead Plants Society

The new Dead Plants Society project will see Leeds Museums and Galleries teaming up with arts and social change charity Space2 to search through the 250,000-strong collection.

Tales of Temple Newsam

Starting in 2025, Tales of Temple Newsam will collect people's living memories of Temple Newsam through oral histories. There are lots of stories to tell – from first love and weddings to truancy and (potential) break-ins!

Public Houses Conference

Public Houses: What makes civic custodianship of historic house museums in Britain different and where next?

Deaf Awareness by Leeds Deaf Arts Forum as part of Overlooked Exhibition

Leeds City Museum held the award-winning exhibition, Overlooked: People of Leeds as you've never seen them, in 2023. The exhibition was co-curated by the Preservative Party, the museum's group of 14 -…

Decolonising the curriculum

Discover how the Learning and Access team began the Decolonising the Curriculum Project at Leeds Museums and Galleries to plan curriculum learning resources connected to our collections.

#DYC On the pitch, off the pitch: Collecting Sport in Leeds

#DYC On the pitch, off the pitch – collecting sport in Leeds is a National Lottery Heritage Fund project recognising the important place of sport in the culture of Leeds. It will increase representation of sports in Leeds Museums and Galleries and across the City and create connections between collections and the city’s public spaces.