What’s on
Featured exhibitions

Fairy Tales
A family adventure through magical worlds and enchanted stories.

Story Explorers in Leeds
Our Story Explorers exhibition is launching off to Leeds! Play your way around this family exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries.
All Events
List of Events

An Evening with Gilles Peterson
One of the UK’s most iconic DJs in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy for a Classic Album Sundays event.

Family Under 5s: Fairy Tale Movement Stories
Friday 15 May, 9.45 and 11.00 Create stories through movement.

How to Start and Run a Successful Restaurant, Coffee Bar or Food Business
Friday 17 April 10.00 –Friday 6 November 10.00 Explore the best ways of opening and running a viable and profitable food business like a cafe, restaurant, bakery, or cake shop!

European Writers’ Festival
Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 May Featuring authors from across Europe, an unmissable weekend of debate and conversation with European literary voices that matter.

Family Workshop: Zanna Davidson's Fractured Fairy Tales
Sunday 17 May, 10.30, 13.00 and 14.30 A Magical Science Adventure with Izzy the Inventor.

How to create captivating videos for lead-generation
Monday 18 May 10.00 Transform your smartphone into a lead-generation powerhouse with easy, cost-effective video marketing strategies.

Introduction to copyright for business
Monday 18 May 13.00 Learn the basics of copyright and get an introduction to protecting and managing your copyright as well as using the work of others.

Tartlets and Pastries: Food items from the Astana Cemetery, Turpan
Monday 18 May 18.30 Curator Yu-ping Luk reveals how ancient Astana tomb pastries challenge our view of Silk Road cuisine, funerary customs and connections.

Self-Help from the Middle Ages
Monday 18 May 19.00 Historian Peter Jones on what medieval thinkers can teach us about modern life.
Featured exhibitions

Fairy Tales
27 March – 23 August 2026 A family adventure through magical worlds and enchanted stories.

Story Explorers in Leeds
Thursday 19 February – Saturday 29 August Our Story Explorers exhibition is launching off to Leeds! Play your way around this family exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries.