Every week, volunteers from the local community gather to work on and maintain the Colour Gardens at Leeds Industrial Museum.
Tag: Volunteering
Monopoly: The Leeds Edition
Explore the fascinating history of the nation’s favourite board game with placement student Chelsea Knight.
John Sell Cotman’s Watercolours: Kitson, Cotman and “Hicky”
Volunteer Brian Richardson explores Leeds architect Sydney Kitson’s critical eye in assessing the watercolours of John Sell Cotman.
4000 Miles, 400 Pictures, 1 Year and 1 Man With An Obsession
Volunteer Linda Bower explores Sydney Kitson’s obsession with collecting and documenting the work of artist John Sell Cotman.
The ‘Cotmania’ Archive: From Leeds to the Web
On John Sell Cotman’s 235th birthday, volunteer Karen Mackie explores how Cotman’s work was obsessively researched by Sydney Kitson, who meticulously recorded his findings in a collection of journals known as ‘Cotmania’.
Conservation Volunteers at Leeds Discovery Centre
With the closing of one exhibition comes the opening of another, and our helpful team of dedicated Conservation volunteers have been keeping themselves extremely busy with caring for the objects involved in the changeover at Leeds City Museum. Conservator Emma Bowron tells us more about what exactly this entails.
