Leeds Museums

Laura Irwin looks at one of the books in the new exhibition at the Leeds City Museum. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Miffy: Famous rabbit goes interactive to celebrate 70th birthday
A firm childhood favourite is the subject of a new exhibition in Leeds as Miffy the rabbit celebrates her 70th birthday.

The Museums Association Conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds this November

Leeds wins bid to host the 2024 Museums Association Conference

Thwaite Watermill. (Pic credit: Leeds City Council)

Thwaite Watermill closure: Yorkshire mill to provisionally close to public

Abbey Mills Visitor Assistant Andy Naylor rescued the ducklings. Photo: Leeds Museums & Galleries.

Yorkshire museum worker rescues ten ducklings from railway cart

Doncaster Museum and Danum Gallery

Doncaster Council find 7,000 beetles they borrowed then forgot about

The remains of an ichthyosaur, an extinct species of fish-like reptile which first appeared around 250 million years ago and is housed at Leeds City Museum.

Story of how extinct fish like reptile ended up in Leeds revealed after 72 years

Exhibition of images of insects close-up at the Leeds City Museum

Incredible up-close images of insects go on display at Leeds City Museum

'Who's been sitting in my chair?'

Leeds artist launches 'who's been sitting in my chair?' challenge ahead of Museu...

Sadie Clayton wears her own Copper Metal Bodice, from her autumn/winter 2017 collection. Photography by Anthony Lycett

Lotherton Hall celebrates 50 years of style with a showcase of fashion’s future

Front of the old Philosophical Hall in Leeds in 1956

Looking back to the night a bomb dropped on Leeds City Museum

Shelley Dring and Steve Scholey dressed as elfs in the Santas workshop built out of scrap, at Temple Newsam House, Leeds..4th December 2017 ..Picture by Simon Hulme

Check out this amazing Santa's workshop made of scrap at Leeds' Temple Newsam

Letters and drawings at the exhibition.
Picture by Simon Hulme

Letters reveal another side to the Lady with the Lamp

Lynne Crispin, visitor assistant at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, in the Chinese Drawing Room.

Social spotlight for Leeds' hidden treasures

Leeds suffragette’s plight in the spotlight

The World War One display case in the Leeds Story gallery at Leeds City Museum

Archives opened to young people in Great War project

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