Leeds Discovery Centre

Leeds Discovery Centre is the purpose-built display storage facility[1] built for Leeds Museums & Galleries in 2007.[2] It was funded by Leeds City Council and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.[3] The facility stores over one million objects in climate-controlled conditions and hosts regular tours.[4]

Outside of Leeds Discovery Centre
Inside Leeds Discovery Centre

Collections stored here include: natural science specimens,[5] social history (including historic board games),[6] textiles, world cultures and archaeology (including Anglo-Saxon sculpture).[7] Objects from different collections areas are displayed alongside each other to maximize visual impact.[8] In 2018, the learning team was awarded The Sandford Award for Excellence in Heritage Learning.[9] The Discovery Centre runs events including art classes.[10]

  1. ^ "Money Conscious Leeds". The Museums Journal. 107: 44. 2007.
  2. ^ "Project Sheet - Discovery Centre" (PDF). Buro Happold.
  3. ^ "Caring for Our Collections: Sixth Report 2006-07". Culture Media & Sport Committee: Houses of Parliament: 321. 25 June 2007. ISBN 9780215034663. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Discovery Centre Tours". Secret Lives of Objects.
  5. ^ "Colonising Animals". Colonising Animals. 22 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Board Games are a Blast from the Past". Yorkshire Evening Post.
  7. ^ Coatsworth, Eilzabeth. Corpus Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture: Volume VIII, West Yorkshire.
  8. ^ Brusius, Mirjam (7 September 2017). Museum Storage & Meaning: Tales from the Crypt. Figure 13.2. ISBN 9781351659420.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ "Sandford Award Winners". Sandford Award.
  10. ^ "Increasing Access to Museum Storage". Collections Trust.