Leeds Discovery Centre

04/06/2026

Help us measure our impact for a chance to win!🏛️

We're working with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to understand the value that Leeds Discovery Centre provides socially and economically.

Help us understand more about your visits by filling out this survey for the chance to win a £100 Amazon voucher.

Your contribution will also help shape new guidelines for valuing culture and heritage across the country.

The survey will take no more than 10 minutes to complete, we really appreciate your time. 🩷

Find the survey here https://bit.ly/LMGImpact

26/05/2026

How to go from 🫠🥵 to 😏😎 in three easy steps.

👉 Book to visit us this half term
👉 Chill in our mega museum store, set to a cool 16 degrees
👉 Have some down time with the kids at our activity stations

https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/everyday-heroes-may-half-term-txtc

SURPRISE VISITORS TODAY - meet the fire service and practice your fire fighting skills in the fire engine! 👩‍🚒

Celebrate everyday heroes in this workshop and tour dedicated to the people who help us!

05/05/2026

As part of Dying Matters week, Leeds Discovery Centre will be hosting a free Grief Café tomorrow, 6 May at 3.30pm. Grief Cafés are an informal opportunity to discuss death, dying, and bereavement in a relaxed environment.

The aim is to increase awareness of death and help people make the most of their lives. A Grief Café is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.

During this session curators will also be showing some Grief related objects from around the world from Leeds Discovery Centre's collection store.

Find out more and book: https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/grief-cafe-r6z7

04/05/2026

It's International Firefighter's Day!

Celebrate firefighters and other everyday heroes this May half term at Leeds Discovery Centre...

Join us for a family workshop and dedicated tour - see historical objects representing the people who help us, throughout history and in the present. Maybe even meet a real-life hero too!

Find out more and book: https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/everyday-heroes-may-half-term-txtc

02/04/2026

01/04/2026

🌷 Things to do at the Leeds Discovery Centre this Easter holiday🌷

📋 Book now to visit us at the Discovery Centre over the Easter holidays to take a look behind the scenes of Leeds Museums & Galleries collection or take part in truly egg-ccellent workshops!

🐣 A Discovery Day, 9 Apr, 10am - 4pm, Booking required, Give What You Can
🐣 Easter Store Tours, 13-17 Apr, 11am - 12pm, Booking required, Give What You Can
🐣 Egg-celent Easter, 14 - 16 Apr, Multiple Times, Booking required, Give What You Can

ℹ️ Visit our website to learn more and discover more Easter holiday events across our venues

12/03/2026

💡 A home education workshop about muscles and bones! 💪🏻🦴

Enliven your learning and join us in this home education workshop to learn all about muscles and bones! Discover the key bones in a human body, how they work together, what clues they can give us about an animal.

This workshop includes a store tour, a self-guided activity and a short talk, aimed at home education children and young people aged 7-11.

Find out more about this workshop (Home Ed Workshop: Skeletons)
👉https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/home-ed-workshop-skeletons-hr1z

Discover more home education workshops
👉https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/home-education-in-leeds-x1p6

📍 Leeds Discovery Centre
📅 Mon 20 Apr (10am-12pm)
💸 £5 per child, booking required

12/03/2026

Calling all plant-lovers! Are you looking for some arty, social and plant-based activities? 🍸🌿

Book a space now for our ‘Plant and Rant’ and ‘Drink and Draw’ events at Leeds Discovery Centre, our upcoming bring your own booze and craft afternoons!

For the ‘Plant and Rant’, join our curators for a behind-the-scenes tour of our collection store. We’ll get creative and make herbarium sheets, annotating them with thoughts, memories, poems, and drawings! All materials are provided, with pre-pressed dried plants. You’re invited to bring your tipple of choice! Monday 20 April, 6-8 pm

‘Drink and Draw’ is a bring your own booze drink and draw session with objects selected from the Leeds herbarium by the Dead Plant Society. Create beautiful botanical illustrations while getting an up-close look at our historical herbarium sheet collection and see first-hand the work of local Leeds botanists from the past! Saturday 6 June, 3-5 pm.

Over 18s only and £18pp for both events.

👉 Book now via our website!

06/02/2026

18/12/2025