The museum run
Leeds keeps its history in five separate buildings scattered across the city, and four of the five are free. An armoury on the water, the city's own collection in the old Institute, a hospital that lets you smell Victorian Leeds, a working woollen mill and a Tudor house at the abbey gates. Do them in any order. Doing them all takes a weekend and a bus pass.
The museum run
Five museums across five postcodes. Check in at all five and the badge is yours.
Check in at all five
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Royal Armouries Museum
LS10, Leeds Dock. The national collection of arms and armour, free, and the busiest museum in the city by a distance.
Venue · Culture & Heritage · Armouries Dr, Leeds LS10 1LT - 02
Leeds City Museum
LS2, Millennium Square. The city's own collection in the old Mechanics' Institute, from Leeds Tiger to the Roman Ark.
Venue · Culture & Heritage · Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH - 03
Thackray Museum of Medicine
LS9, Beckett Street. A recreated 1840s Leeds slum in the old workhouse, next door to St James's.
Venue · Culture & Heritage · 141 Beckett St, Harehills, Leeds LS9 7LN - 04
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
LS12, Armley. Once the largest woollen mill in the world, now the machines that made the city's money.
Venue · Culture & Heritage · Canal Rd, Armley, Leeds LS12 2QF - 05
Abbey House Museum
LS5, Kirkstall. Victorian streets rebuilt indoors, in the abbey's old gatehouse across the road from the ruins.
Venue · Culture & Heritage · Abbey Walk, Abbey Rd, Kirkstall, Leeds LS5 3EH
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