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Vendors celebrate 10 years of the Market Kitchen street food hall at Leeds Kirkgate Market.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown (pictured) and Sarah Burhouse were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. The gigantic Bengal tiger, thought to be one of the biggest taxidermy mounts of its kind anywhere in the world, was among a selection of the museum’s most precious and historic specimens being conserved in the museum’s spectacular Life on Earth Gallery.

Curators Clare Brown and Sarah Burhouse (pictured) were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. This week’s conservation included cleaning the delicate tail feathers of the museum’s incredibly rare pair of Huia, an extinct species of bird that once lived in New Zealand. A sacred bird to the island nation’s indigenous Māori people, Huia tail feathers are traditionally only used and worn by people of great status and power.

Curators Clare Brown and Sarah Burhouse (pictured) were on site at Leeds City Museum carrying out meticulous checks for dust and the types of tiny pests which can be harmful to vintage taxidermy, before undertaking a delicate clean of some unique and historically significant exhibits. This week’s conservation included cleaning the delicate tail feathers of the museum’s incredibly rare pair of Huia, an extinct species of bird that once lived in New Zealand. A sacred bird to the island nation’s indigenous Māori people, Huia tail feathers are traditionally only used and worn by people of great status and power.