Galleries exhibitions

A gallery visitor looks at a museum case containing a historic travel guide book, next to a glowing plinth which says 'Shifting Borders'

Shifting Borders: A Journey to the Centre of our World(s)

Take a journey across borders and travel from Leeds to Venice and Jerusalem via the Sun and Moon.

Photograph of two performers on a stage filled with flowers and musicians around the edge, against a dark blue backdrop.

Opera North: Race, Representation and Authenticity, 1979–2023

This exhibition explores 40 years of Opera North’s operatic storytelling, and the ways it has engaged with issues of race, representation and authenticity.

A two toned red textured artwork by Simon Callery

Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now

Challenge your views of what landscape painting can be, and explore nature in unexpected ways.

Charlotte Brontë, Fireside Tales, or the Return to Zamorna, 1836 – 1837. Image credit: Special Collections, University of Leeds

Becoming the Brontës

The Brontës are Yorkshire’s very own world-famous literary family. But how did they become the icons we know today?