What’s on at Leeds Museums & Galleries

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Florence Nightingale Bicentenary: Inspiration to Genius

01 March 2020 - 17 October 2021

Venue: Lotherton

A display marking 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale and her links to Lotherton.

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Artist Zadie Xa appears against a fictional background in purple tones. She is joined by various animal guides including a fox and gull and wearing an orca headpiece

Zadie Xa: Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers

18 May 2021 - 04 September 2021

Venue: Leeds Art Gallery

This Spring Leeds Art Gallery celebrates reopening with a new exhibition from artist Zadie Xa: Moon Poetics 4 Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers.

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A hand painted rock held out in the palm of a hand

Community display: Temple Rocks Leeds

05 June 2021 - 31 October 2021

Venue: Temple Newsam

What started out as rock painting for a little girl and her dad during lockdown, has become a permanent ‘Rock Snake’ featured in the landscape of Temple Newsam.

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Georgina Starr: Quarantaine

24 June 2021 - 04 September 2021

Venue: Leeds Art Gallery

Quarantaine, an ambitious new film from Georgina Starr screens in the White Gallery from 24 June.

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A black and white photograph of Thwaite House from the 1800s

Thwaite at 30

03 July 2021 - 28 August 2022

Venue: Thwaite Watermills

Located in the Old Chalk Warehouse, our Thwaite at 30 display is now on view for visitors to learn all about the history of our much loved watermill.

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Brown bear in the Life on Earth gallery at Leeds City Museum with two visitors looking at it.

Teddy Trail

09 July 2021 - 31 August 2021

Venue: Leeds City Museum

Bring your teddy along to Leeds City Museum and spot the real and toy bears on our free under 5s trail this summer.

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James Thompson working on his exhibition in Leeds Art Gallery

James Thompson: Spatial Drifts

17 July 2021 - 16 October 2021

Venue: Leeds Art Gallery

Set within the Central Court, Spatial Drifts presents alternative ways to experience the gallery’s iconic Victorian architecture.

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Ashley Holmes: Distend

24 July 2021 - 31 October 2021

Venue: Leeds Art Gallery

For Yorkshire Sculpture International, Ashley Holmes presents Distend, an immersive installation which expands on Holmes’ interest in sonic fiction and dub music to explore cultural memory.

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