...I don't like seeing Sweep with legs... it's just not right 😕
#kirkstallabbey #kirkstallabbeymuseam #sooty #sootyandfriends #abbeyhousemuseum

Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall, Leeds was given a stay of execution when the community came together to show just how loved it is.
Why not visit and find out for yourself why this museum is so cherished. 🫶
#Kirkstall #kirkstallabbeymuseam #abbeyhousemuseum #Leeds #Museum

Letter headlined 'Save museum from closure'

Letters in today's print edition of the @yepleedsnews.bsky.social calling for #AbbeyHouseMuseum to be saved - while there's still time.
#HistoryLives

A view from behind as a toddler excitedly explores a narrow Victorian-style snicket linking the reconstructed streets at Abbey House Museum

The front of a pair of Victorian shops displaying their wares in the windows and spilling out onto the street. An ironmongers with a sign in red and gold and a grocer with green and white striped awning. It is a convincing reconstruction, but these are displays within Abbey House Museum's Victorian street scene.

A back alley in a Victorian city with washing hanging across the street between homes. It is a reconstruction of Victorian Leeds within Abbey House Museum

One of Yorkshire's best museums is at risk of closure.

Add your voice to this consultation to share why #AbbeyHouseMuseum needs to stay for future generations of curious families and Victorianists.

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...