A woman peels two pieces of fabric apart. Inside there is the relief of a pressed flower with red petals.
We hope you're enjoying the Easter Break, and maybe spending some time in the sun and in nature. 🪻🌞
Get inspired with our #MuseumJigsaw this week, pressing flowers between fabric to make beautiful prints.
🧩 You can play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries
How sweet is this little lamb? 🐑
Spring time brings a burst of new life as animals emerge from hibernation, flowers bloom, and baby animals are born! 🌸🪻
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📷️ The sheep suckling her lamb/ La Brebis, Adrian Van de velde, 1670. LEEUA 1991.019
A classic painting of two children on horseback, one on a brown horse and the other on a white pony, accompanied by several dogs, set against a mountainous, forested landscape.
#PuzzleMonday 'Horses and Dogs' by School of Barraud
🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩
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#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art #BlueskyArt
A vase full of a colourful array of different types of flowers against a whitewashed wall in dappled sunlight.
Spring has come in full bloom! This painting of a vase in dappled sunlight promises sunnier skies and warmer days are ahead. 🌸🌞
🧩 Play this #MuseumJigsaw here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries
📷️ Gerard Chowne, Flowers in Sunlight, 1909. LEEUA 1923.036
A lively, ornate interior with men in turbans and robes gathered around a central pool, talking, lounging, or preparing to bathe. Warm sunlight streams through patterned windows, illuminating intricate decor.
#PuzzleMonday 'Café de Galata, Constantinople' by Charles Theodore Frere
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#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art #BlueskyArt #Constantinople
....and yes, like almost all the art in our collections we have turned this into a #MuseumJigsaw
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A peaceful garden scene with a reflective pond, lush greenery, tall evergreen trees, flowering bushes, and old stone arches and ruins under a bright, partly cloudy sky.
#PuzzleMonday Fairyland at Cannon Hall
🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩
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#jigsaw #puzzle #game #Barnsley
"Deep, abiding friendships are the place where many women know lasting love" - bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love, 2002.
We feel extra thankful for our female friendships this #InternationalWomensDay 💜
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A montage postcard featuring Locke Park, Cheapside and Market Hill
#PuzzleMonday A Barnsley Postcard
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Arpillera work from South America (Chile or Peru), made to be sold commercially to help women support themselves. This brightly coloured banner style embroidery of a mountainous landscape with a river and bridge includes velvet llama and alpaca and attached figures made out of wire apertures. The figures are carrying supplies or spinning distaffs; one is fishing and one playing panpipes. The reverse is lined with white cotton with a pocket attached which holds a written detail in Spanish of the landscape of highland Peru, referencing the rivers and livestock, and the occupations of the people. Stitches include satin, stem and blanket stitch.
Craft and textile has often been a way for women to support themselves independently, whilst also acting as a tool for non-violent resistance and social justice when living under repressive regimes. These textiles are called 'Arpilleras'.
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19th-century tavern interior oil painting depicting a group of British soldiers and civilians gathered around a wooden table in a rustic inn, illuminated by warm firelight.
#PuzzleMonday Tavern Scene with a Soldier by Alexander Carse
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A circular coin made of gold with a side portrait of a winged horse figure and small dots embossed on the front.
It's #MuseumJigsaw!
To keep with the theme of Lunar New Year commencing last week, we've found this beautiful gold quarter stater featuring a winged horse 🐎🪽
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📷️ Quarter stater. CC.6210
A blue poster with an illustrated fist breaking through a heart. There is an eight-line poem underneath.
As an ode to those celebrating an anti-valentine, reclaiming your peace and saying no to negativity and toxicity. ❤️🩹
🧩 Play the #MuseumJigsaw here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries
📷️ Battered Wives Valentine postcard, Women's Aid Federation of England, 1980s. MS 2265/4/7/10
A painting of a sunlit cobblestone street with people in period clothing; a man with a cart and dog stands near women sitting by a building, while others walk under a stone archway in the background.
#PuzzleMonday 'The Oyster Seller' by Jacob Van Stry & JP Schoenmackers
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A decorative ceramic tile panel featuring Moorish arches, intricate floral patterns, and columns, with a garden scene visible through the central arch. The design uses blue, green, brown, and cream colors.
We were too busy yesterday sharing bowls, tins, crumpets and owls that we missed out on #PuzzleMonday
To make up for that here's a #TilesOnTuesday puzzle 🧩
Let us know how long it takes you to solve this #MuseumJigsaw
Islamic Arches tile panel by William De Morgan
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A pair of purple gloved hands adjust a white cast of a hand in a display case. In the palm of the cast is a big dark coin.
Tomorrow is the grand reveal of our latest exhibition, Who am I to you? 🧐
Here's a sneaky peek with an install shot of one of our coin volunteers delicately handling a display object. 🪙
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📷️ Image Credit: University of Leeds
A group of adults and children gather around a wooden table in a rustic room, watching an elderly man seated and writing. The scene is warmly lit and the people wear old-fashioned, rural clothing.
#PuzzleMonday 'The Performing Monkey' by M W Lejin
🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩
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Very little is known about Lejin other than the fact the artist was active in the 19th century.
#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
Split-screen artwork contrasting two atmospheric landscapes: on the left, a moody foggy cobblestone road with bare winter trees, a horse-drawn carriage, and a dimly lit historic castle behind a stone wall at dusk; on the right, a vibrant forest scene with lush green foliage, a small arched stone bridge, sunlit woodland path, rocks and plants, evoking a serene, fairy-tale setting
As today is #NationalPuzzleDay here's a #MuseumJigsaw of the two John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings in our collections:
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Well done! 👏
Can you beat Laura's time in this weeks #MuseumJigsaw challenge?
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A hand holding up a photograph of groups of students stood outside a red brick building, behind which is the same location in the present day.
It's Fresh Start Festival @universityofleeds.bsky.social
We're welcoming in the new term with a throwback to the students of the 1970s - do you remember campus looking like this?
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📷 Beech Grove House, LUA/PHC/003/9
A rustic interior scene with an empty woven chair draped with striped and red cloths, a large plate with food scraps on the floor, scattered shoes, a jug, and a person crouched by a fireplace—capturing the charm found in UK artists' artworks.
#PuzzleMonday 'Domestic Interior with Still Life' by Esaias Boursse
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Boursse was born in Amsterdam in 1931, the son of a textile worker and bookbinder from Valenciennes
#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
Corner of a room with a glass display case on the left with shelves of archival material and a blue wall on the right on which a timeline is printed.
We love the timeline in our new exhibition, 'A Continuous Circulation', so much that we made it into a #MuseumJigsaw 🧩
Play here www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries
And come see it in person 👇
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A collage of eight classical paintings, each depicting people from different eras and social classes holding teacups or sharing tea, in lavish costumes or rustic attire, both indoors and outdoors.
This week we're combining #PuzzleMonday with #BrewMonday
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We didn't realise how much of our artwork featured cups of tea until we took a closer look 😉
A scenic landscape with scattered trees, deer grazing, and two people sitting on a dirt path in the foreground. In the distance, large classical buildings are seen under a partly cloudy sky.
#PuzzleMonday 'Greenwich Park' by George W Mote
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Mote complete this painting in 1857 which was also the same year that he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy
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Illustration of four sheep on green rolling hills under “ABSOLUTE UNITS” text. Podcast branding: Museum of English Rural Life, Arts Council England logos, and text at the bottom left.
We thought we'd say thank ewe to @themerl.bsky.social for all our new followers by the only way we know how. Creating a bonus #MuseumJigsaw puzzle
See if you can complete it in the fastest time while listening to the Absolute Units podcast
🧩https://bit.ly/MERLJigsaw 🧩
It's #MuseumJigsaw and we have found a beautiful seasonal work that we've dug from the collections. This is Shiba Temple in a Snow Storm, one in a series of one hundred famous views of Edo, painted in the 19th century! A beautiful woodcut and ink print. 🖼️❄️
Play the puzzle: bit.ly/LULGJigsaws
Front page of The Gryphon, the University of Leeds's newspaper. The gryphon animal and crest is in the top left hand corner. An illustration of the University Union on a snowy night time takes up the main page. An old style car drives up in the snow whilst students walk under street lamps.
It's the first of December! 🌟
We hope you enjoy all the Christmas trees being put up across campus. To celebrate the start of the festive month, look at this 1947 edition of The Gryphon! Campus never looked so merry.🎄
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A printed image in black, red, blue and yellow. 'The Tyke' is printed across the top page in yellow spikey font and has 'June 1927' printed in red underneath. A red dog with a yellow owl on it's shoulder sits inside a white star in the middle of the page. Blue and white sparks fly out from the star in all directions. In a yellow banner at the bottom reads 'Undergraduate Charity Rag Issue'.
Today's #MuseumJigsaw is @universityofleeds.bsky.social student-founded magazine, The Tyke 📣⚡
Sold to the public during Rag Week each year, each issue contained adverts, stories and cartoons. Now they're prized collectors items!
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📷 The Tyke 1927, 1927. LUA/STU/002/D/9/2
A dramatic mountain landscape in Switzerland with towering rocky cliffs, tall pine trees, a distant snow-capped peak, a person leading a cow on a path, and a small wooden bridge over a stream in the Grindelwald valley.
#PuzzleMonday 'In the Grindelwald, Switzerland' by
Léonard Alexis Daligé de Fontenay
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#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
A still life oil painting of an afternoon tea or coffee spread. A teapot, jug of milk and teacup lay on a white table cloth. A wooden coffee grinder rests in the background.
It's #MuseumJigsaw! Nothing quite hits the spot like a warm cup of coffee on a cold morning. This painting by Paul Sérusier is making us very envious.
Are you a coffee, tea or matcha kind-of person? 🍵
Play a jigsaw whilst you sip on a hot drink 🧩:
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