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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 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 ...
The Thoresby Society: The Leeds Historical Society is the historical society for the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding district. It was founded in 1889 and named after the historian of Leeds, Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725).
"Leeds New Mechanics' Institution and School of Art", engraving in The Builder, 1867. The Leeds Mechanics' Institute building, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, was built in 1865–1868 in Cookridge Street. [8] The building is now grade II* listed, [9] and since 2008 has been the home of Leeds City Museum. [10]
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Leeds City Museum, Cookridge Street, LS2 3AD 39 Fletland Mills 42 The Calls, LS2 7EW 40 Joseph Aspdin: Packhorse Yard off Briggate, LS1 6AT 41 Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education 18 Blenheim Terrace, LS2 9AR 42 St Aidan's Church: Roundhay Road LS8 5QD 43 East Bar Leeds Parish Church boundary wall, Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ (Small plaque: 14 inches) 44
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.