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In 2001, Leeds City Council bid for National Lottery cash, and in 2004, it was awarded £19.5 million, [4] so in 2005, the Leeds Mechanics' Institute building (designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and built 1865–1868) [5] began to be redesigned as Leeds City Museum, finally to reopen in 2008.
The service still adds to its collections, for example through acquiring new archaeological archives. [20] Nesyamun, on display at Leeds City Museum is a widely studied Egyptian priest. The First World War program, which ran from 2014 to 2018, examined how Leeds was affected by the First World War, worked with people across the city. [21]
The city's industrial growth was catalysed by the introduction of the Aire & Calder Navigation in 1699, Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816 and the railways from 1834 onwards; the first being the Leeds and Selby Railway opened on 22 September 1834.
Mr Hamilton said the archives were split between the Hudson Road site, the city museum, the West Yorkshire Archive Service and the personal collection of the Trust's Jeremy Burton.
The house is a Grade I listed building, [1] one of nine Leeds Museums and Galleries sites [2] and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership. [3] The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it is situated, and lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk ...
In 2017 and 2019 Leeds City Museum held a week of educational events for children on the subject of the Armley Hippo. A central feature in 2019 was an animation created from a story and drawings by school-children Lochan Chakrabarti and Holly Reeve; it was premiered on Millennium Square, Leeds in front of the museum.
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