Image: Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries' curator at Leeds City Museum’s Living with Death exhibition
The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.
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Openings & closures
The Museum of Homelessness is to open to the public this week, with its debut exhibition ‘How to Survive the Apocalypse’.
Museum of Homelessness reveals opening date and programme details
Building conservation charity The Landmark Trust has announced the opening of its first property in Greater Manchester.In partnership with the Science and Industry Museum, its restored Grade I-listed Station Agent’s House is now offered as self-catering holiday accommodation for up to eight guests.
Exhibitions
Coinciding with World Environment Day in June, Manchester Museum opens a new exhibition that explores the human relationship with the natural world, alongside approaches to environmental recovery. in ‘Wild’ visitors will be introduced to five wild places across the globe, and will hear from Aboriginal elders, researchers and community activists. The exhibition will feature an immersive installation, audio, film and interactive elements, alongside natural history collections and artworks. Runs 5 June 2024 to 1 June 2025.
The Hayward Gallery will present the first major UK survey of artist Haegue Yang from this October. ‘Haegue Yang: Leap Year’ will be arranged into five thematic zones, and will include three major new commissions and several new productions in installation, sculpture, collage, text, video, wallpaper and sound. Yang’s artwork often turns everyday domestic items into sculptures and multimedia installations. The exhibition will conclude with a new commission, Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (2024), created from ascending layers of Venetian blinds. Runs 9 October 2024 to 5 January 2025.
The Natural History Museum has opened a new family-focussed exhibition which will explore the avian world in ‘Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre’. The exhibition will display an array of specimens including the canary and emu, will explore the ancestry of the bird via the first T-rex jawbone to ever be discovered, and will provide visitors with a chance to step inside a larger-than-life interpretation of a bird’s nest. The exhibition runs until 5 January 2025.
Opening in July, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a new body of original work by York-based painter Carol Douglas. ‘Actually I Can’ includes 51 new paintings of various sizes, with works to be hung in several spaces in the YSP Centre, including the Upper Space Gallery, and the Kitchen Café.
Leeds City Museum has opened an exhibition to explore how different cultures experience death, dying, and bereavement. Living with Death features objects including a lion coffin, made by world famous Ghanaian coffin carpenter Paa Joe (pictured above) on loan from Nottingham-based ARTDOCS. Other objects featured in the exhibition, which is sponsored by Co-op Funeralcare, include a Roman period painted mummy portrait from Egypt, on loan from Manchester Museum, and a 1,600 year-old lead coffin to the public for the very first time. Runs until January 5 2025.
A new exhibition at Nottinghamshire’s D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum will explore the hidden history of England’s last armed rebellion, The Pentrich Revolution. The 1817 armed uprising will be explored via the museum’s location in Eastwood, the town through which 200 of the rebels passed. Runs 20 June – 30 August 2024.
Funding
A project to create the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has been awarded a £3.75 million grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore and transform a heritage watermill site in Clerkenwell into its home.
£11.5m Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to transform heritage waterworks
