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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.
Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821. In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7] In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history.
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". [2] Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
Leeds Art Gallery: Leeds: City of Leeds: Art: Collection includes 19th- and 20th-century British Art Leeds City Museum: Leeds: City of Leeds: Multiple: Local history, natural history including Leeds Tiger, archaeology from Ancient Greece and Rome, African artefacts Leeds College of Art: Leeds: City of Leeds: Art
This is a list of public art in Leeds, including statues and other memorials. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and as such does not include, for example, works in museums.
Museums in the city of Leeds, ... Leeds Art Gallery; Leeds City Museum; Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills;
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 ...
2 Abbey House Museum. 3 Leeds City Museum. 4 Leeds Art Gallery. Toggle the table of contents.