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The collection also includes slides containing spiders and insects from around the world, carefully preserved more than a century ago.
14th February 2025
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Ancient Egyptian Bread Crumb Unearthed in Leeds Museum’s Collection of Miniature Artifacts

In an intriguing discovery, a minute crumb of bread dating back thousands of years has been unearthed within the Leeds Museum’s extensive collection of miniature artifacts. This ancient fragment, ensconced among the museum’s treasures, offers a unique glimpse into the culinary past of ancient Egypt. The bread crumb, believed to be approximately 3,000 years…
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Dead Plant Society
31st January 2025
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Leeds Museum Project Revitalizes Centuries-Old Antique Plants

Thanks to an intriguing environmental history project in Leeds, hundreds of thousands of antique plants and flowers that have been carefully preserved for centuries are set to be revitalized. Collected over the past 200 years by botanists and horticulturalists, these precious specimens, primarily gathered from parks and grasslands in east Leeds, are stored at…
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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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Leeds Discovery Centre
21st January 2022
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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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