Leeds Industrial Museum Visual Story

When I visit Leeds Industrial Museum, there are lots of things I might see, touch/feel, hear or smell.

I can turn left out of the car park. 

I can go down the drive way to the main entrance. 

I can go up the steps from the canal. 

I will see a big building with a yellow sign over the door. 

I might hear birds, people talking, canal boats or bicycles. 

I will see a Visitor Assistant at the Welcome Desk, they will be wearing a black uniform. 

I can show them my ticket or buy a ticket from the Welcome Desk. 

When I get to the top of the stairs I will see male and female toilets.

I will hear a ticking clock. 

I can turn right when I get to the stairs. 

I will find an accessible toilet opposite the woollen spinning mule. 

I can turn right and go down the steep stairs. 

Or I can take the lift from any floor. 

I will need to ask a Visitor Assistant to help me if I need to use the lift. 

Lunch Space...

If I turn right from the shop I will find the lunch space down the corridor.

I may hear the fridge. 

Getting around the museum...

I will enter the museum on the top floor. 

I can choose to go into the Textile Gallery through the doorway to the left of the shop.

I can choose to go through the Textile gallery. 

I can sit on the benches. 

I can choose to go down to the second floor by using the stairs. 

The stairs will take me to outside the Palace Picture House. 

On the second floor...

I will find the Palace Picture House. 

I may see and hear films being played. 

I can sit on one of the benches or seats in the cinema. 

I may choose to go into the Media in the Mill gallery. 

I will see large cinema projectors. 

I may hear the films playing in the Palace Picture House. 

If I go through the Temporary exhibition, I will see the Mini Makers Studio on my left. 

The lighting in the Tailoring Gallery is darker than other parts of the museum.

I may need time to adjust to the light levels. 

I can use the stairs to get to the Temporary Exhibitions. 

I will need to go back through the Tailoring Gallery, Temporary Exhibition and Media in the Mill.

I will see the steep stairs on my left.

I can choose to turn left at the bottom of the stairs into the Mill Space.

This is a temporary exhibition and will change every 1 - 2 years. 

This is the exhibition ‘Reel-ise’ in July 2025. 

To get to the ground floor... 

I can go down the stairs from the Textile or Tailoring Galleries. 

I will see the Schoolroom but this is only open for school groups. 

I can turn left out of the lift.

I will go through some scaffolding to the Power House Gallery. 

I can choose to come out of the Power House Gallery to the bottom of the stairs.

I may see the Mill Engine through a window. 

When I am ready to leave...

I can go back to the top floor.