MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES - Page 2

Leeds City Museum
27th March 2026
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Leeds museums welcome more than a million visitors

Council-run museums in Leeds have welcomed more than a million visitors in a year, new figures show. The city’s eight Leeds Museums and Galleries sites attracted a combined 1,046,372 people during 2025, marking a 16 per cent increase on the previous year and highlighting the continuing strength of Leeds’s cultural offer. Statistics released by…
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Summer of Sculpture
27th March 2026
2 mins read

Summer of Sculpture brings global stars to Leeds

Leeds Art Gallery is set to bring some of the biggest names in contemporary and modern sculpture to the city this summer with the launch of its ambitious new Summer of Sculpture programme. The major seasonal showcase will feature a series of exhibitions and installations by internationally renowned artists, cementing Leeds’ reputation as a…
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Boar Lane, Leeds, by John Atkinson Grimshaw was the first painting unveiled as part of Leeds Art Gallery's new art advent.
8th December 2023
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Gallery unwraps festive favourites for art advent

Treasured favourites from the stunning Leeds Art Gallery collection are being unwrapped for a unique new ‘Art Advent’ this month. Members of the gallery’s team have selected their best-loved artworks and will be sharing their personal stories of why they love each one, with a different piece set to be unveiled each day throughout…
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Artist Sonia Boyce standing in room 5 at the British Pavilion, 2022, Image Cristiano Corte © British Council
26th May 2023
2 mins read

Gallery going for gold with award-winning musical exhibition

Sonia Boyce OBE is an interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, photography, print, sound and installation. The stage is set for Leeds Art Gallery to host an internationally acclaimed exhibition showcasing the unique talents of five Black female musicians. Sonia Boyce’s Feeling Her Way will open at the gallery on May 26 after…
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In 1943, The Princess Royal visited Kirkstall Forge. She took an extensive tour around the site and showed great interest in the work being done.
4th November 2022
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Historic images capture legacy forged by Leeds landmark

For more than 700 years it was part of the city’s industrial heartbeat, hammering out a unique legacy which truly stood the test of time. Now a new exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum is rediscovering the fascinating story of Kirkstall Forge. Hammer Heart explores the history of Britain’s oldest ironworks, from its humble beginnings,…
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Dignitaries gather for the 1922 ceremony to handover Temple Newsam House to Leeds Corporation.
14th October 2022
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Temple Newsam turns back time to celebrate centenary

A special celebration will see Temple Newsam roll back the years this weekend as the much-loved estate marks 100 years of belonging to the people of Leeds. This Sunday (Oct 16) will be a century since the stunning house, farm and parklands passed into the ownership of Leeds City Council and visitors will be…
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Percy Metcalfe, designed the Irish Free State coinage of 1928
24th June 2022
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Museum’s new tiny treasure is small change

A tiny coin which lay buried beneath the Yorkshire soil for more than 1,300 years has been banked by a Leeds museum. The ancient treasure is an example of a sceat, among the littlest coins ever made in Britain, and was unearthed by an eagle-eyed detectorist on a patch of local land. After formally…
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Leeds Discovery Centre
21st January 2022
2 mins read

Putting 100-year-old penguin on ice is a happy feat for museum curators

A museum’s magnificent stuffed penguin will spend the next two weeks chilling out in a giant, state-of-the-art freezer as curators give damaging bugs and beetles the cold shoulder. The impressive emperor penguin has been put on ice at Leeds Discovery Centre after experts there detected potentially problematic pests which can destroy delicate taxidermy specimens. Over…
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