Exhibitions at Leeds City Museum
Special exhibitions
Living with Death
6 May 2024 - 5 Jan 2025
Our latest exhibition at Leeds City Museum invites visitors to explore the different ways people experience death, dying, and grief. Living with Death looks at how humans have developed knowledge and skills in response to life ending.
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Permanent displays
Life on Earth
Life on Earth is home to some of the most remarkable specimens in Leeds’s collection of 800,000 animals, vegetables and minerals. Our natural history gallery also provides an insight into the affects of climate change on nature, and what we can do to be more sustainable.
Life on Earth is located on the lower ground floor of the museum.
The Collectors Cabinet
This gallery tells the story of collecting in Leeds from 1700 onwards.
Don’t miss our impressive heavy-footed Moa skeleton, once one of the largest birds ever to roam the earth.
The Collectors Cabinet is located on the first floor of the museum.
World View: Voices of Asia
A gallery celebrating the sights, sounds and diversity of the Asian communities in the city.
Journey through our themed displays to discover a changing selection from some of the 6000+ Asian items in Leeds Museums & Galleries collections.
The World View: Voices of Asia gallery is located on the first floor of the museum.
The Leeds Story
From the first archaeological finds to changing displays reflecting people’s lives in the city today, Leeds is a city of stories. Find out how Leeds has shaped, and been shaped by, its landscape and people.
The Leeds Story gallery is located on the second floor of the museum.
Ancient Worlds
See Nesyamun, the 3000 year old Leeds Mummy, and the only known mummy known to hail from the 20th Dynasty. Discover clues to the past in art and architecture, objects in the earth, ancient writing and burials.
The Ancient Worlds gallery is located on the third floor of the museum.
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