Reopening updates
Hooray! Lotherton Hall, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds Art Gallery and Home Farm at Temple Newsam are now open to visitors, with social distancing and safety measures in place. This is Dee, Pauline and Sylvia, our volunteers at Lotherton who were our first visitors back in the hall on Monday.
We're advising that visitors pre-book tickets to Lotherton and Home Farm online in advance. More updates to follow, and in the meantime - drop in for a virtual visit.
Happy Yorkshire Day!
Here's to celebrating all things God's Own Country and having 9 wonderful venues in the greatest city in the world. If you need us, we'll be pouring a brew of Yorkshire's finest and clambering on Ilkla Moor baht 'at.
For a hit of pure Yorkshire, this film of talks by the mining community behind the Blot on the Landscape and Mining Memories exhibitions is *chefs kiss*.
(Image: John Cary's map of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1787)
South Asian Heritage Month
It’s South Asian Heritage Month, and in Leeds we have
- A large and diverse south Asian community
- A team who work with the community to explore their connections with Leeds past & present, which includes
- around 1200 south Asian objects in the world cultures collection.
Read our latest blog by world cultures curator Adam Jaffer, who delves into these objects and their cultural significance.
The Colour Garden in lockdown
Whilst Leeds Industrial Museum has been closed, the volunteer-run Colour Garden has kept on growing. We donned our gardening gloves last week and visited Chris, our Assistant Community Curator, whilst he was tending to the plants.
These are teasels, which are grown in the garden and were used in the machines in the mill back in't day to comb the wool.
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