A volunteer sorting old microscope slides at a Leeds museum stumbled upon 3,000-year-old bread crumbs from Egypt. Photo from Leeds City Council While sorting through some overlooked archive ...

A Leeds museum which was threatened with closure under council budget proposals will now stay open after a "passionate" response from the public. Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall opened in 1927 and ...

Since then the museum and Mark have received messages from ... they will be swinging by the Armouries on their next visit to Leeds. Mark, who moved from London in the mid-1990s to be one of ...

A podcast series celebrating the lives of six historical women has been released by one of West Yorkshire's top museums. The ...

Leeds Museums and Galleries curator of natural ... who began working with the museum to study fossilised plants. While cataloguing the slides he also found a mote of dust from the Krakatoa ...

Ahead of English Tourism Week - which begins tomorrow (March 14) - we explored the famous Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds Dock. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post ...

A Leeds museum under risk of closure, due to a council cost cutting initiative, will remain open following public outcry. Abbey House Museum, opposite Kirkstall Abbey, will remain open despite waning ...

Belinda May uses the tools and techniques inherited from her parents to create and perform her own history plays with puppets ...

A a "pay as you feel" admission charge will be introduced at some council-run museums including at Leeds City Museum, Leeds Art Gallery and Leeds Discovery Centre. The authority is also ...