Festive opening hours
Beyond the Visual exhibition & shop
24, 25, 26 Dec 2025: closed
27 & 28 Dec 2025: open 10am–5pm
29, 30, 31 Dec 2025 & 1 Jan 2026: closed
2 Jan: open as usual, 10am–5pm
Research Library
24 Dec 2025 – 2 Jan 2026: closed
Sat 3 Jan 2026: open 1–5pm
"By engaging senses other than sight, Beyond the Visual invites play, contemplation, reminiscence and debate. It’s both simple and complex."
Gill Crawshaw visits Beyond the Visual at the Henry Moore Institute (@HMILeeds) in Leeds.
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ALT Artist Carmen Papalia holds an audio device to his ear while touching a pink-lit acrylic panel illuminated with a dahlia firework with arching trails.
'A groundbreaking exhibition turns the way we think about sculpture on its head. Every object has its own audio description and is there to be touched, completely accessible to all, sighted or blind.'
Review @HMILeeds by @annamcnaystudiointernational.com/inde…
The @HMILeeds have taken down the “do not touch” signs. You’re invited to explore Beyond the Visual using all your senses.
When - Till 19 Apr 2026
Where - Lees
Cost - Free
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ALT A black circle sits in a yellow square with yellow writing inside saying 'Beyond the Visual'. Braille representation for the word 'sculpture' sits underneath in yellow.
Experience sculpture with ALL your senses at Beyond the Visual, opening on 28 November 2025 at @HMILeeds
Join us for opening celebrations on Thursday 27 November, 1–4pm or 5–8pm.
RSVP is essential.
All welcome, free entry.
Book your ticket: henry-moore.org/whats-on/bey…
What does a sculpture sound like?
How does it feel?
Does it smell?
Beyond the Visual opens @HMILeeds on 28 November 2025. For this groundbreaking exhibition blind and partially blind artists from around the world encourage you to encounter sculpture in a whole new way.
ALT A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'What does a sculpture sound like?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026'
ALT A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'How does a sculpture feel?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026'
ALT A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'Can you smell a sculpture?' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds' and '28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026'
Discover how everyone’s experience of art is transformed when you go Beyond the Visual. Find out more at henry-moore.org/beyond-the-v... or call us on 0113 2467467.
ALT A black circle sits in a yellow square, with the words 'Beyond the Visual' and a Braille representation of the word 'sculpture' in yellow writing in the centre. Underneath are the words 'Free Entry' and 'Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 28 November 2025 - 19 April 2026'
The exhibition is the culmination of a three-year research collaboration between Henry Moore Institute, @UAL & @ShapeArts, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (@ahrcpress)'s Exhibition Fund, a major grant supporting innovative, collaborative exhibition approaches.
Proposals open for one-day symposium Placemaking: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sculpture and Urban Regeneration @UniofBradford, Friday 17 October 2025, organised in partnership with @C20Society.
Deadline: Monday 8 September 2025, 5pm
Details: henry-moore.org/discover-and…
ALT A large bronze sculpture by Henry Moore of a reclining woman, nicknamed 'Old Flo'. It is in an urban setting with high-rise buildings behind.
Visit Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White.
The exhibition continues the dialogue between history and materiality in sculpture through the work of three contemporary artists.
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm, until 2 November 2025. Free entry.
Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White is now open.
Our new exhibition brings together three contemporary artists who've transformed the galleries to explore heritage, displacement and materials.
Visit Tues-Sun 10am-5pm, free entry
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ALT A textured green vessel hangs on a metal frame attached to a pinky-brown wall
ALT A large phallic structure hangs from the ceiling by a chain and feeds through an old wooden school desk, dark brown hair cascades out the bottom and runs along the floor.
ALT A sculptural installation or rusted metal bars, old rope and charcoal is in the foreground while on the wall behind it sits a series of wooden boxes covered in plant printed material encasing silk worms.
ALT A sculpture hanging against the wall on a metal bar with ships rope and paint hanging down and pooling on the gallery floor.
Our galleries are currently closed while we install our new exhibitions:
Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White
and
Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time,
both opening 18 July 2025.
Find out more:
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While the galleries are closed, the Research Library on the first floor is open as usual. Visit Tuesday – Friday, 10am–5pm and Saturdays, 1–5pm to enjoy over 30,000 books on sculpture in our beautiful reading rooms in the centre of Leeds, free entry.
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ALT A woman sits studying at a desk in the library surrounded by shelves of books, working at a laptop with books piled on the table in front of her
Easter opening hours
SCULPTURE GALLERIES & SHOP
Fri 18 April: closed
Sat 19 April: open 10am–5pm
Sun 20 April: closed
Mon 21 April: closed
RESEARCH LIBRARY & ARCHIVE
Fri 18 April: closed
Sat 19 April: closed
Sun 20 April: closed
Mon 21 April: closed
Open as usual from 22 April
Congratulations to our Prof Sarah Casey (@SCaseyArtist) on her exhibition and film exploring ice melt on Swiss glaciers at the Henry Moor Institute! 👏
The exhibition, 'Negative Mass Balance', will be on display in the Study Gallery until Sun 22 June: henry-moore.pulse.ly/xbcm0jm…
Film courtesy of @HMILeeds 📽️
Our new season of exhibitions examining the natural world and sculptural processes are open now:
☀️ S U N L I G H T : Roger Ackling
🗻 Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance
📚 From Dawn to Dust Library Display
🌸 Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist
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ALT Installation view of Sarah Casey: Negative Mass Balance at Henry Moore Institute showing Emergency! What Was Is 2025 and Ice Watch (Bietschhorn) 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Rob Harris