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Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821. In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7] In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history.
Leeds' economy is the most diverse of all the UK's main employment centres, and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city and has the highest ratio of private to public sector jobs. [5] Leeds is home to over 109,000 companies, generating 5% of England's total economic output of £60.5 billion, [6] [7] and is also ...
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum that holds the National Collection of Arms and Armour.It is part of the Royal Armouries family of museums, with other sites at the Royal Armouries' traditional home in the Tower of London, and the National Collection of Artillery at Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
Abbey House Museum. Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is housed in the gatehouse of the ruined 12th-century Kirkstall Abbey, [1] and is a Grade II* listed building. [2] The house is 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of Leeds city centre on the A65 road. [3] It is part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group.
[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.
The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a museum of the history of medicine adjacent to St James's University Hospital. It opened in March 1997 as the Thackray Medical Museum. In 1998 it won "Museum of the Year" and has other awards including in 2004 both the "Excellence in England Small Tourist Attraction of the ...
In 1715 the first history of Leeds was written by Ralph Thoresby, entitled Ducatus Leodiensis; or the Topography of the antient and populous Town and Parish of Leedes. Leeds was mainly a merchant town, manufacturing woollen cloths and trading with Europe via the Humber estuary and the population grew from 10,000 at the end of the seventeenth ...
The Mechanics' Institute building on the opening day of the rehoused Leeds City Museum in 2009. Leeds Mechanics' Institute was a mechanics' institute founded in 1824 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, [1] and is one of the predecessor institutions of Leeds Beckett University [2] and Leeds Arts University.