When life gives you lemons, make lemonade... or orange juice in this case! 🍊🍹 Check out this beautiful Indonesian batik of summer fruits we've picked for this week's #MuseumJigsaw🌞 🧩 Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries 📷️ Batik Fabric, late 20th Century. ITC 764

Our MA Modern History students, Can and Jiaxi, have been organising and cataloguing files in the Major Road Theatre Company Collection, a pioneering Bradford-based theatre group known for its co-production and community focused productions. 📷️ 'Bye Bye Love'. Classmark MS 2063/1/16.

It's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! This week is British #Landscapes. 🌲🌄 We love the misty morning light captured in the painting of the viaduct and the different textures of Leeds' industrial landscape interpreted through sculpture.

Sharpen your pencils and dust off your sketchbooks, it's time for life drawing! ✏️ A heads up, life drawing is happening at a different time of month than usual! Join us: 📅 Saturday 15 August 2026, 14:00 – 16:00 📍 Treasures of the Brotherton £13.50, book here:https://buff.ly/HcXm07Y

@universityofleeds.bsky.social students - paid internship alert! 💸 We are looking for a Galleries Student Engagement Intern to join our Learning and Engagement team. 🖼️✏️ Application Closing Date: Sunday 9 August 2026 For more information and to apply: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

It's #MuseumJigsaw! Have you noticed the flowers out at the moment? You might have noticed the fuchsias. A classic English garden staple, they are recognised by their bell shape form and bright magenta/ pink colour - hence their name! 🩷🌺 🧩 Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

It's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! This week's theme is 'Animals and Nature', so we couldn't resist but find images of rabbits. We are known @universityofleeds.bsky.social for our campus bunnies after all! 🐇🌼🌳

Treasures of the Brotherton is closed today for some essential maintenance. 🛠️ The rest of The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is open as usual. Don't worry, Treasures of the Brotherton will be back open as normal tomorrow! 😮‍💨

Just a heads up that we will be closed tomorrow, Thursday 23 July, for some essential maintenance. 🛠️⚠️ The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, however, will be open as usual. Our apologies for any inconvenience!

We're loving seeing all your beautiful graduation outfits and gowns on campus. 😍 For this week's #MusuemJigsaw we've found this #Graduation edition from The Gryphon. 🎓️📜 🧩 Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

It's #Summer for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Oh to be snoozing by the lakes and mountains in your caravan! 🚐🌲🚣‍♀️

So we had to talk about it eventually - are you going all in on AI 🤖 or avoiding the robots at all costs 💀? Hear what industry professionals think in the latest episode in our Contemporary Conversations podcast series. Listen here: glovesoffleeds.podbean.com

MOTHERBABYHOME Consisting of 796 loose leaves of printed vellum contained in a handmade oak box, this is Kimberly Campanello's acclaimed 'poetry object' MOTHERBABYHOME. 📷 Kimberly Campanello, MOTHERBABYHOME, 2019. MS 2281/1/1/1.

Vive la France! 🥐 James Michael Pencheon, psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, was pretty passionate about the French Revolution. He amassed a collection of nearly 2,500 books, that we've been cataloguing over the past 9 years. This #BastilleDay, the team take you though some of their highlights...

There are so many reasons we love Leeds, it’s hard to pick one! 🩵 To celebrate #Leeds400 through the places that make Leeds, Leeds, we are exploring how the University of Leeds has contributed to the wider city. 🏙️🦉

It's #MuseumJigsaw and it's #Graduation season 👨‍🎓🥳 It's also #Leeds400 so what's more perfect than recognising the beautiful Great Hall where @universityofleeds.bsky.social students graduate each year? Up to 7,000 students pass through each summer. What a clever bunch the lot of you are! 🤓

Join us tomorrow for Part II of our Public Art Trail series! In three walks over June, July and August we’re covering all the Public Art on the University of Leeds campus. Come along to hear stories behind the artworks. Saturday 11 July, 10.30am-12pm, free. 🎟️ library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

It's #OnlineArtExchange and @artukdotorg.bsky.social's theme is Sacred Symbols 🕊️🌟 This book of hours prayer book has influence from Germanic folklore, indicated by the little "moss person", a sacred child-size being from Germanic folklore who is clad in moss and intimately connected to trees.🌲

"It's a superpower." The final episode of Curating Class is available now! 🎧️ We’re wrapping up the series with an honest and inspiring discussion featuring six artists from our recent ‘[uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds’ exhibition. Listen here: glovesoffleeds.podbean.com

Today there were two sessions at #IMC2026 on the Wakefield Court Rolls, records of Medieval Yorkshire held by @lulgalleries.bsky.social. For a creative project I ran with young people on the rolls last year, see museumsandcastles.wakefield.gov.uk/get-involved... #medievalsky

Wakefield Manor Today project

Wakefield Museums and Castles Youth Forum worked with the University of Leeds to make creative responses to the Wakefield Manor Court Rolls. These are historic documents from the 1300s.

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As part of @imc-leeds.bsky.social Leeds International Medieval Congress we are showing some beautiful and whimsical illuminated manuscripts, court rolls and chronicles! Drop-in today and tomorrow to see medieval treasures from Cultural Collections at Treasures of the Brotherton, 12:00 - 14:00. 🌟📜

#2026 Tuesday Drop in free events are exciting and throughout the day! 😁 'La Mora' Tapestry Project: Parkinson Building: Parkinson Court, 08.30-18.30 Cultural Collections Lunchtime Drop-Ins: Parkinson Building, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, 12.00-14.00 #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

It's #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social week! ⚔️ Naturally we've gone medieval for our #MuseumJigsaw with this Italian Book of Hours featuring a gorgeous full page miniature showing the Virgin Mary holding the Christ-Child. Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries... 🧩

So much fun with the glorious Dr RJ Wade at the Crossed Wires festival this weekend. The first live show of unfinishing! Could not have asked for a more interesting, articulate, and entertaining guest! We talked about the unfinished(?) life and work of artist Emma Novello, @lulgalleries.bsky.social

It's the second instalment of our summer sculpture walks! ☀️🌿Join us on a stroll across campus to see some of our beautiful public art. Hear stories behind the artworks, revisit familiar favourites and discover hidden gems.🚶‍♂️🌄 🌸 Saturday 11 July, 10:30am - 12:00pm Book a free ticket: buff.ly/m9ay0jD

We're excited to be joining @unfinishing.bsky.social on the stage at Leah's Yard for #CrossedWires2026 Our Exhibitions Curator (Cultural Collections) Dr RJ Wade will be chatting to host Emily Anderson about our unfinished painting of Richard Cobden by Emma Aloysia Novello This Sunday from 10am!

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Very exciting news that unfinishing will be live at the Crossed Wires podcast festival on 5 July! #CrossedWires #podcast #live

It's #OnlineArtExchange! @artukdotorg.bsky.social have selected the theme 'America' to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We've found this stunning painting of Niagara Falls 🌊 and tiny masterpieces found on a needlebox documenting various travels! 🚢

In the mood for life drawing? 🖼️ Join our art tutor, Rob Oldfield, in an open-level drawing workshop. ✏️ Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own too! 📅 Saturday 4 July 2026 🕰️14:00 - 16:00 📍Treasures of the Brotherton. 🎟️ tickets £13.50, book here: buff.ly/RChoqiC

Making Space is officially open! 🎉🎊 Be inspired by the energy of our student community. 💛 Explore and discover works covering a range of themes including nature, identity, activism, and movement. Open now until Saturday 29 August 2026 at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery.👇️ buff.ly/m0GOK6F

It's #MuseumJigsaw!🧩 We've picked this advert of the Smoke Abatement Exhibition: a famous showcase circa early 20th Century showcasing marvellous technologies that reduced or eliminated specific environmental or public nuisances. In this case, pollution and smoke! 🔥💨 Play here: buff.ly/NU3YsV1