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Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.

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It’s #NationalNestBoxWeek and we’ve found this adorable 'Book of British birds' in the Abercrombie Collection, hand drawn by Ralph Abercrombie, aged 11, in 1894.

Today we’re giving magpie - it’s been one of those days. 🐦‍⬛🤪 Let us know which bird you’re channelling in the comments!🪿
A notebook open with childlike illustrations of birds in black ink. A notebook open with childlike illustrations of birds in black ink.
February 18, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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As an ode to those celebrating an anti-valentine, reclaiming your peace and saying no to negativity and toxicity. ❤️‍🩹

🧩 Play the #MuseumJigsaw here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

📷️ Battered Wives Valentine postcard, Women's Aid Federation of England, 1980s. MS 2265/4/7/10
A blue poster with an illustrated fist breaking through a heart. There is an eight-line poem underneath.
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Strange and subtle is this weeks #OnlineArtExchange inspired by Gwen John: Strange Beauties at the National Museum Cardiff.

Gwen refers to herself as 'a seer of strange beauties,' - we think Gwen would approve that our pick by Emily Ford is just as strange and ethereal✨️

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A painting of a naked woman appears to be floating in clouds, with a soft blue fabric draped around her. It is as if she's underwater or flying in the sky. A painting of a woman in modest clothing and a veil, sat at a wooden table, her hands placed upon a book. A small picture frame is hung above her shoulder on the wall behind.
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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This Thursday

Join us for an in conversation with a panel of artists, curators and academics on the theme of memory in art, with reference to the Turner Prize 2025 and contemporary artistic practice

12 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Online tickets still available
🎟️ library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
A colourful hexagonal block on a golden mirrored floor with golden spheres on threads hanging from the ceiling above it. In the background a person walks in front of a colourful multipaneled painting.
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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We love a #MuseumSuperbowl *almost* as much as we love a #MuseumSuperbOwl 🥣 🦉

So we're giving you both - and we've turned them into #MuseumJigsaws 🧩

Touchdown.
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Ceramic bowl with a painted floral pattern on the front and inside the rim. Page from an illuminated medieval manuscript in yellow featuring illustrations of birds, bugs, and flowers around a rectangle of Latin text. In the bottom right corner is an owl with a frown.
February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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We invite our panellists to consider the Turner Prize 2025 artworks as objects of memory that 'reveal' themselves through complex societal and institutional structures.

We ask, can artists be seen and understood, via their work, as sharing and revealing memories, whether individual or collective?
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February 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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We're hitting the slopes for todays #WinterSport #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social ⛷️

Here are two glass plate negatives of skiers with two snowy styles

📷 Joseph Hardman, Skiing at Kirkstone, 1963. Lakeland Arts 2002.7.411
📷 Godfrey Bingley, Crossing the Horrebraekene, n.d. MS 1788/54/78
Black and white photograph of a person skiing down a snowy mountain with their poles in the air Black and white photograph of a person on skis walking across snow
February 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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The exhibition invites reflection on what these objects can tell us about our shared past and present. It also explores the silences and absences that shape who is remembered, and who is forgotten.

Who am I to you?
3 February - 3 October 2026

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Glass museum cases containing plaster casts of hands holding coins. Resting on the outside of the cases are more plaster hands.
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Who am I to you? encourages you to see familiar faces in a new light.

Explore identity, representation and public memory through sculpture, rare books and 3D technologies. Encounter life casts, coins and medals that challenge traditional ideas of portraiture.
Rows of portrait busts, some marble and some bronze, on wooden plinths.
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Since 2016 Treasures has introduced over 100,000 of you to our extraordinary Cultural Collections

It's a place to share our curiosity about the world. We've invited conversation, sparked inspiration and explored some of the most important questions of our time.

Now in 2026 we ask: Who am I to you?
Open books and black and white photographs in a glass museum case. On the wall behind another glass case contains green sculptures of heads.
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Now open in Treasures of the Brotherton...

Celebrate ten years of Treasures with a bold reimagining of our collection of portrait busts

Who am I to you?
3 February - 3 October 2026
Treasures of the Brotherton
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Exhibition poster with two images of a mans head, in pink and blue, facing in different directions in a layered 3D effect. Black text over the top reads "Who am I to you? 3 February - 3 October 2026"
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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TONIGHT!

We mark ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton with the opening of a bold new exhibition - Who am I to you?

See us in a new light as we celebrate our first decade 🙌

Join us from 5.30pm
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A photograph of people looking at glass museum cases filled with objects.
February 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Tomorrow is the grand reveal of our latest exhibition, Who am I to you? 🧐

Here's a sneaky peek with an install shot of one of our coin volunteers delicately handling a display object. 🪙

🧩 Play the #MuseumJigsaw here www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

📷️ Image Credit: University of Leeds
A pair of purple gloved hands adjust a white cast of a hand in a display case. In the palm of the cast is a big dark coin.
February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Atkinson Grimshaw's iconic moonlit scenes are a masterclass in capturing light and dark

You can see even more of his nocturnal landscapes in 'Atkinson Grimson: At Home in Yorkshire' on display right now at Scarborough Art Gallery

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Painting of a seafront on which a dark crowd stands in the shadow of a sea wall and dark cliff to the left side. The sky and the sea beyond are illuminated in moonlight. Painting of a harbour filled with boats silhouetted against the light of a full moon.
January 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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We're marking 10 years of Treasures with the opening of a bold new exhibition

Who am I to you? encourages you to see familiar faces in a new light through a reimagining of the University of Leeds' portrait bust collection

Tuesday 3 February, from 5.30pm
RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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January 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Happy birthday to us! 🎂

Next week we celebrate ten years of Treasures of the Brotherton

We'll be joined by curators past and present to look back at a decade of exhibitions showcasing stories from our Cultural Collections - and you're invited!

RSVP: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Two people looking at illuminated medieval books displayed in a lit glass museum case.
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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It's Fresh Start Festival @universityofleeds.bsky.social

We're welcoming in the new term with a throwback to the students of the 1970s - do you remember campus looking like this?

Play the #MuseumJigsaw here www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

📷 Beech Grove House, LUA/PHC/003/9
A hand holding up a photograph of groups of students stood outside a red brick building, behind which is the same location in the present day.
January 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Check your inboxes ✉️

Our January e-news has just dropped! All the latest news, exhibitions, and events from Cultural Collections & Galleries - all in one convenient email.

PLUS! We record the whole thing - so you don't even have to read it!

Get it in your ears 🎧
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January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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It's #Motherhood for today's #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social for 'Anna Ancher: Painting Light' @dulwichgallery.bsky.social

We've been inspired by the many "Mother and Child" artworks by Bernard Meninsky, who reflected the intimate bond between his wife and their son in many of his works
Black and white drawing of a woman breastfeeding a baby Pencil sketch on brown paper of a woman breastfeeding a baby Painting in a slightly cubist style of a woman sat on a chair and breastfeeding a baby
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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We love the timeline in our new exhibition, 'A Continuous Circulation', so much that we made it into a #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

Play here www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

And come see it in person 👇
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Corner of a room with a glass display case on the left with shelves of archival material and a blue wall on the right on which a timeline is printed.
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Plan your visit, and discover Leeds’ history as a centre for new thinking on art education, through the archive of an artist in the middle of it all.

A Continuous Circulation
Tuesday 20 January - Saturday 9 May 2026
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

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Corner of a room with a dark blue wall on the left with white text which reads "A Continuous Circulation" with paragraphs of interpretation underneath and an abstract portrait in a frame. On the right are glass museum cases filled with archival material.
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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A Continuous Circulation showcases material from the Maurice de Sausmarez Archive, held in Cultural Collections. It includes writings, artworks, exhibition catalogues, prospectuses, and correspondence with artists. Exhibited for the first time, this material sheds new light on his critical role.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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It is led by a man who believes the arts have a vital role to play. He takes an experimental approach to art education, emphasising an artist’s curiosity. He lays the foundations of a distinctive way of teaching that combines art history and theory with practice.

His name is Maurice de Sausmarez.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Let us introduce you to artist, writer, and educator, Maurice de Sausmarez (1915-69), and his significant influence on the way we teach art.

Through a curated exhibition of his archive, we’ll take you to 1950s Leeds. A Department of Fine Art has been newly created @universityofleeds.bsky.social
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January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Now open!

🔵 A Continuous Circulation: Artists and Art Education in Mid-century Leeds – Selections from the archive of Maurice de Sausmarez 🔵

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Tuesday 20 January – Saturday 9 May 2026
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
A navy blue poster with red and blue circles and white text which reads "A Continuous Circulation: Artists and Art Education in Mid-century Leeds – Selections from the archive of Maurice de Sausmarez"
January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM