Discover how we kept sustainability at the forefront of our Beavers to Weavers exhibition.
Category: Natural History
Beavers to Weavers: The Wonderful World of Animal Makers
Discover the message behind Leeds City Museum’s latest exhibition, about what animals do and how they live their lives.
The Bird Egg Collection
Claire Miles explores our LMG’s Bird Egg collection during her placement with our Natural Sciences Collection.
Installing Skeletons: Our Buried Bones
Curator Ruth Martin answers the age old question: what does it take to change the temporary exhibition gallery from one show to another?
A Springtime Walk: Exploring our Natural Environment
Curator of Natural Sciences Rebecca Machin takes us on a walking tour to explore the delicate balance of springtime, in light of the “For All Seasons” exhibition at Leeds City Museum.
Plumage Puzzle – a Bird Specimen Challenge!
New collections challenge on social media! Test your birdy knowledge with #PlumagePuzzle!
The Secret Life of the Leeds Tiger
The Leeds Tiger over at Leeds City Museum is one of our best-loved exhibits, but how did it get here and was it really once a rug? Thanks to some amazing research by Ebony Andrews, (in her PhD thesis ‘The Biographical Afterlife of the Leeds Tiger’), we have the answers to some of these questions!…
Taking care of our taxidermy collection
Swallowtail butterfly Museum collections require constant care and there’s a lot of conservation work going on behind the scenes at Leeds Museums. Right now, some of the animals usually displayed in Leeds City Museum’s Life on Earth Gallery are being conserved. We’re taking the opportunity to reveal what goes on behind the scenes, following the…
Treasures of the Herbarium Collection
During my placement at the Discovery Centre I have been documenting the Herbarium collection donated to Leeds Museums by the University of Leeds. Conserving delicate plants The herbarium sheets, cones and seeds that I am working with are stacked in groups by the species to which they belong and groups of species folders are then…
Eggy Oddities: Why Kiwis Produce Massive Eggs
Generally in the natural world the size of one’s offspring correlates with the size of one’s self. Elephant babies are huge and mouse babies are tiny. The bigger the bird the bigger the egg or the bigger the egg the bigger the bird…depending on which came first! Of course nothing in nature is that simple…
