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Marsh Award for Volunteers in Museum Learning
11th October 2024
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Young Enthusiasts Win Top Award for Bridging Smeaton’s Engineering Legacy with Modern Design

A group of enthusiastic young historians, inspired by the renowned Leeds-born engineer John Smeaton, have been honored with a prestigious award. Dubbed The Young Smeatonians, these students have successfully connected historical engineering feats with contemporary innovations by exploring how pioneers like Smeaton have influenced modern toy designs, such as Lego and Meccano. Their dedication…
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Clare Brown, Leeds Museums and Galleries' curator of natural sciences holds a Blue Morpho.
16th February 2024
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Stunning butterfly collection is a flight for sore eyes

A colourful kaleidoscope of some of the world’s rarest and most beautiful butterflies has been carefully conserved by experts in Leeds. The stunning array of winged insects housed at Leeds Discovery Centre includes hundreds of species from across the globe, many collected by explorers and scientists more than a century ago. The precious collection…
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Nicky Lines, John Farley and Karen Mackie who attended the prestigious awards at the British Museum.
2nd December 2022
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Gallery’s young volunteer group scoops top museums award

A group of young adults whose experiences of being in care helped them bring exciting exhibitions to life for culture vultures in Leeds have scooped a top award. Leeds Art Gallery’s Care Creatives is made up young adults aged 16-24 years who live in foster care, kinship care, residential care or who have recently…
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Youth Art Collective
13th November 2020
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Youth group’s prestigious award win is picture perfect

A project giving budding curators in Leeds the chance to work with one of the country’s top contemporary art collections has scooped a prestigious industry award. Leeds Art Gallery’s Youth Art Collective received the Volunteers for Museum Learning award for Yorkshire from The British Museum and the Marsh Christian Trust during an online ceremony…
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