What's On at Leeds Museums and Galleries

Music Leeds Us: Celebrating 60 Years of Music in Leeds

COMING SOON | From 10 October | Leeds City Museum | Marking 60 years of Leeds Conservatoire, this special exhibition celebrates the people, places and magic moments that have shaped the city’s musical identity across six vibrant decades.

Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays

COMING SOON | Abbey House Museum | 1 July 2025 - 8 March 2026 | A community display celebrating Leeds writers, from historical fiction to thought-provoking poetry, and plays written for stage and screen.

Reel-ise

COMING SOON | Leeds Industrial Museum | 14 July 2025 - 31 May 2026 | A new community exhibition exploring the rich film history of Leeds.

Inspired by Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam House | 25 Apr - 21 Sept 2025 | An exhibition in collaboration with Leeds Fine Artists at Temple Newsam House.

Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist

Leeds Art Gallery | 4 April – 2 November 2025 | A display drawn from the archive of Helen Chadwick, providing a unique insight into the artist’s modes of working and thinking about art.

Fashion at Play

Lotherton | 1 March - 12 October 2025 | A new exhibition exploring children’s fashion from the 1600s to modern day.

Miffy's 70th Birthday

Leeds City Museum | 7 Feb - 7 Sept 2025 | An exhibition celebrating 70 years of miffy and Dick Bruna's artwork in Leeds..

Story Time

Abbey House Museum | 25 Jan - 31 Dec 2025 | Children's books then and now. Are you sitting comfortably? Uncover a love of reading in this family-friendly exhibition.

Karanjit Panesar: Furnace Fruit

Leeds Art Gallery | Until 15 June 2025 | Inspired by the collections of the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, Furnace Fruit, by Leeds-based artist Karanjit Panesar, is a mixed media exhibition centred around new moving image work.

'An Axis of Abstraction': Art in Cornwall and Yorkshire – Then and Now

Leeds Art Gallery | Until 7 December 2025 | Exploring Modernist artist practices in West Cornwall and West Yorkshire.

Engineery

Leeds Industrial Museum | Until 1 Nov 2026 | Engineery is an exhibition marking the 300th anniversary of John Smeaton, the father of civil engineering.

Pride In Place

Leeds City Museum | 9 June - 31 August 2025 | An exhibition showcasing voices and stories of South Leeds

Preservative Party on the Case

Leeds City Museum | 28 April - 19 October 2025 | An exhibition from the Preservative Party about themes that mean the most to them.

To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates

Leeds Art Gallery | 16 May - 5 October 2025 | A major new exhibition curated by one of the most important figurative curators of today.

Portrayals of Women

Leeds Art Gallery | 29 March 2025 - 5 April 2026 | A display from the works on paper collection exploring how women have been portrayed from the 1600s to the present day

Revive, Repair, Re-use: Stories of Sustainability

Abbey House Museum | Until 15 June 2025 | A display co-curated with volunteers about the practices and effects of sustainability in Leeds.