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The Wallaby Experience

Lotherton
Wed 1 Apr - Sat 1 Aug
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Two people looking at a taxidermy penguin and other items in Leeds Discovery Centre's collection store

Behind The Scenes Store Tour

Leeds Discovery Centre
Wed 1 Apr - Wed 3 Jun
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The Capybara Experience

The Capybara Experience

Lotherton
Wed 1 Apr - Sat 1 Aug
Sold Out
Two adults and 2 children looking at an old fashioned shop counter with rabbits on

Easter - Bunny Fun

Abbey House Museum
Fri 3 Apr 10:00 - Sun 19 Apr 17:00
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An adult lifting up a child to look at a car in the museum

Felted Egg Hunt

Leeds Industrial Museum
Fri 3 Apr 10:00 - Sun 19 Apr 17:00
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an illustration of a sheep with grass and clouds shapes around on a khaki background

Easter - Silly Sheep Round Up

Kirkstall Abbey
Fri 3 Apr 10:00 - Sun 19 Apr 15:00
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A curator holding a very large egg, next to red draws with more eggs from our collection in

Egg-ccelent Easter

Leeds Discovery Centre
Tue 14 Apr - Thu 16 Apr
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4 lego characters carrying a globe

LEGO® Build the Change: Rewild our Museum!

Leeds Industrial Museum
Tue 14 Apr 10:30 - Thu 16 Apr 14:00
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Family Singalongs

Leeds City Museum
Tue 14 Apr 11:00 - 14:00
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Make a Field Under the Glass Roof

Tue 14 Apr 11:00 - Fri 17 Apr 15:00
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Nicky Bray in a pineapple costume holding a miniature guitar

Creatures Songtime for Under 5s

Leeds City Museum
Wed 10 Jun Multiple times
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A selection of artisan food

Family Fun Fest

Temple Newsam Estate
Sat 20 Jun and Sun 21 Jun
Free
An adult and 2 children buying plants from a stall

Craft Markets

Temple Newsam
Sun 19 Jul - Sun 22 Nov
Free
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Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays

Abbey House Museum | Until 20 September 2026 | A community display celebrating Leeds writers, from historical fiction to thought-provoking poetry, and plays written for stage and screen.

Reel-ise

Leeds Industrial Museum | 15 July 2025 - 16 July 2026 | A new community exhibition exploring the rich film history of Leeds.

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

Leeds Art Gallery | Until 7 June 2026 | 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.
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A tour guide stood next to a taxidermy penguin and objects from the collection store

Easter Store Tours

Leeds Discovery Centre
Wed 15 Apr and Fri 17 Apr
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A tree with the moon and bats in the background

Bat Walk

Temple Newsam Estate
Sat 2 May 19:00 - 22:00
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3 teal hedgehog outlines with teal historic hats, buildings and scrolls on a blue background

Historic Hedgehogs Trail

Leeds City Museum
Mon 4 May 10:00 - Sun 31 May 17:00
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A child looking through glass at a penguin swimming

Love Your Zoo Week

Lotherton
Sat 23 May 09:00 - Sun 31 May 17:00
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3 adults and a toddler looking into a industrial machine with wool in

Woolly Good May Half Term

Leeds Industrial Museum
Sat 23 May 10:00 - Sun 31 May 15:00
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May Half Term: Find Your Happy!

Temple Newsam House and Home Farm
Sat 23 May 10:30 - Sun 31 May 17:00
General Admission
A group of colourful gonks

Gnomes Sweet Gnome

Abbey House Museum
Sat 23 May 12:00 - Sun 31 May 17:00
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A parent and child over looking deer in a field

Deer Tractor Tours

Lotherton
Mon 25 May 11:00 - Fri 29 May 14:00
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The Leeds Museums and Galleries collection store tour

Everyday Heroes - May Half Term

Leeds Discovery Centre
Tue 26 May - Thu 28 May
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Woolly Wonders - Wet Felting

Leeds Industrial Museum
Tue 26 May - Thu 28 May
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Nicky Bray, a woman with dark hair wearing red glasses, with face paint on, next to a cat

Spiky Singing With A Side of Silliness

Leeds City Museum
Tue 26 May Multiple times
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a young boy doing crafts at a table

Spiky Crafts

Leeds City Museum
Wed 27 May 10:00 - Thu 28 May 15:00
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Half Term Store Tours

Leeds Discovery Centre
Wed 27 May and Fri 29 May
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Bean growing

Bean Planting

Temple Newsam Estate
Wed 27 May and Thu 28 May
Free
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Ikebana workshop

Lotherton
Wed 6 May 13:00 - 16:00
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A close up image of a ceramic woman looking mourningful

Grief Café

Leeds Discovery Centre
Wed 6 May 15:30 - 17:00
Free
A blue and teal image of the top of Leeds City Museum's building

Sociable History Club

Leeds City Museum
Fri 8 May - Fri 2 Oct
Give What You Can
The rooftop and view of temple newsam house

Rooftop and Cellar Experience

Temple Newsam House
Fri 8 May - Sun 13 Sep
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A picnic area outside of Abbey House Museum, surrounded by camelia plants and trees

Enhancing Positive Emotion

Wellbeing Week

Abbey House Museum
Mon 11 May 10:00 - 12:00
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A purple background with a mannequin with a Victorian dress on and a framed photograph of a woman wearing the dress

Curator Talk: Fashion in the Early Years of Photography

Abbey House Museum
Tue 12 May 14:00 - 15:00
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Close up of a decorative art object with flowers and embroidery

Treasures of Lotherton

Lotherton
Wed 13 May - Thu 14 May
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Listen to the Ancient Stones

Kirkstall Abbey
Wed 13 May 12:30 - 13:30
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A flower bed in front of Abbey House Museum

Higher States of Consciousness

Wellbeing Week

Abbey House Museum
Thu 14 May 14:00 - 16:00
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quatrefoil shapes with portraits of ladies in Temple newsam and paintings from venus and bedrooms in temple newsam

An Evening of Love, Sex and Scandal

Temple Newsam House
Thu 14 May - Thu 17 Sep
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Polly Atkin and a copy of her book Recovery Dorothy

Recovering Dorothy

Talk by author Polly Atkin

Lotherton
Wed 20 May 14:00
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A black and white image from 1626 of a building in Leeds with a person in white walking across ringing a bell

400 Years of Leeds: Through The Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries

Abbey House Museum
Thu 21 May 10:15 - 11:15
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Two adults and 2 children looking around a grand room in Lotherton Hall

Lotherton Hall: A Historic Tour of Yorkshire’s Edwardian Gem

Lotherton
Thu 21 May - Thu 17 Sep
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Image of a willow obelisk in the Walled Garden

Willow Obelisk Workshop

Temple Newsam Estate
Tue 2 Jun 13:00 - 15:00
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A curator holding a mammoth tusk in the Leeds Discovery Centre collection store

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