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MuseumsSite Name: Leeds City Museum Alternative Name: Leeds Museum
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.573 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Leeds
Map Ref: SE2993634036
Latitude: 53.801769N Longitude: 1.546957W
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Leeds City Museum, originally established in 1819, reopened in 2008 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Housed in the former Mechanics' Institute built by Cuthbert Brodrick in Cookridge Street (now Millennium Square). One of nine sites in the Leeds Museums & Galleries group.

Admission to the museum is free of charge. Special exhibitions are hosted alongside a collection of displays from the Leeds Archive.
History

In 1819, a museum was established in Philosophical Hall, Bond Street, by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, and in 1821 it opened to the public. In 1921, control of the museum was handed to the Corporation of Leeds which later became Leeds City Council. In 1862, Philosophical Hall was rebuilt in Park Row, where its stone portico can still be seen on the west side of the road.[1] In 1941, the museum building and artifacts were badly damaged by bombing.[2][3] In 1965 the museum was closed, and a few exhibits removed to a couple of rooms in the city library in 1966. The oversized Leeds Tiger, the giant moose skeleton and the carved wooden cart took up much of the space. In 1999 the museum went into storage, though researchers and the public could view items by appointment. In 2000, the resource centre at Yeadon opened, under the same appointment-to-view arrangement. 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. It was redeveloped to a design by Austin-Smith:Lord architects and Buro Happold engineers.[6][7] The gallery and exhibit design was provided by Redman Design.[8][9].

Of note to Portal readers is a Wayland the Smith (Anglo-Saxon period) stone fragment in the museum's 2nd floor displays. See 3D rendering here: sketchfab.com/3d-models/wayland-fragment-leeds-city-museum-dc5ebafede5a4327a43206e21730cfbf. Description courtesy Wikipedia under commons licence.

For source and references see Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_City_Museum and Leeds City Museum website: citymuseum.leeds.gov.uk/

Directions:
Leeds City Museum is located at Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH, United Kingdom.

Note: Part of a Viking Age cross found during c19th rebuilding work in Leeds Minster. One of five examples of stone sculptures in Yorkshire that seem to show Wayland the Smith strapped into the ‘flying contrivance’ he used to escape King Níðuðr
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SE2934 : Leeds Museum [Former Civic Theatre] by Rick Carn — by Rick Carn
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SE2934 : Cookridge Street, Leeds by Stanley Walker — by Stanley Walker
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SE2934 : Leeds College of Art: mosaic by Stephen Craven — by Stephen Craven
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SE2934 : Leeds College of Art: blue plaque by Stephen Craven — by Stephen Craven
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SE2934 : The Leeds Institute, Cookridge Street by Stanley Walker — by Stanley Walker
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