Royal Armouries
The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom’s national collection of arms and armour. Originally an important part of England’s military organization, it became the United Kingdom’s oldest museum, originally housed in the Tower of London from the 15th century, and one of the oldest museums in the world.
Free tickets must be booked online in advance.
Royal Armouries Museum Armouries Drive Leeds LS10 1LT
Free Taxi Boat is also available outside.
Leeds City Museum
Leeds City Museum, originally established in 1819, reopened in 2008 in Leeds. It is housed in the former Mechanics’ Institute built by Cuthbert Brodrick, in Cookridge Street (now Millennium Square). It is one of nine sites in the Leeds Museums & Galleries group.
Admission to the museum is free of charge. Special exhibitions are hosted alongside a collection of displays from the Leeds Archive.
Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH
Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection “of national importance”. Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA
Bolling Hall, Bradford
Situated just a mile from Bradford city centre and situated in a quiet, leafy garden, Bolling Hall was for many years the seat of two important land-owning families, the Bollings and the Tempests. With parts of the building dating from the Medieval, Bolling Hall is a rambling mixture of styles with every nook and cranny packed with history.
Rooms are furnished and decorated to give an accurate taste of life at different periods of the house’s history, and the fascinating furniture on display includes a superb bed made for Harewood House by Thomas Chippendale.
Spend some time exploring a different side of Bradford’s heritage – but watch out for an appearance by the ‘White Lady’ in the Ghost Room!
Bolling Hall Museum, Bowling Hall Rd, Bradford BD4 7LP
Cliffe Castle Museum and Park
Part of Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Cliffe Castle was originally built in the 1880s as the home of Victorian millionaire and textile manufacturer, Henry Isaac Butterfield.
In the 1950s the Castle was bought by Sir Bracewell Smith, a local man who became Lord Mayor of London. Sir Bracewell commissioned architect Sir Albert Richardson to turn Cliffe Castle’s gardens into a grand public park and remodelled the Castle to be a free museum for the people of the district – which continues to this day, winning (and retaining) a coveted Heritage Green Flag award – the first in the district!
In recent years Cliffe Castle has undergone a series of restorations, inside and out with Victorian features in the park reinstated, and the breathtaking stained glass Butterfield Window on the Grand Staircase restored.
Visitors can see sparkling Victorian rooms, furniture paintings, and decorative art. There’s also galleries specialising in natural history, archaeology and social history, alongside the internationally important display of stained glass by Morris and Co.
The Castle also hosts changing exhibitions drawn from our collections and the wider community. We like to say there really is ‘something for everyone’ on a visit to Cliffe Castle!
Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6LH
The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford – CURRENTLY CLOSED
The National Science and Media Museum, in the heart of Bradford, explores the science and culture of light and sound technologies and their impact on our lives.
Free tickets must be booked online in advance.
Pictureville, Bradford BD1 1NQ
