What was on

Hands-on light and magic helped you discover the science behind how we see the world around us. Flash-bang fun for the whole family!

This exhibition drew key images from the Daily Herald archive, a fascinating photographic record of local, national and international events.

Sarah Jones’ complex and beguiling images link the themes of composition and gesture, lighting and colour, and our relationships with places.

As Yorkshire hosted the International Indian Film Awards, the museum staged an exhibition that brought to life the drama, scale and flavour of Indian cinema.

Invented by the Lumière brothers, the autochrome has been described as ‘perhaps the most beautiful of all the photographic processes’.

A showcase of two related bodies of An-My Lê’s work about the world of war re-enactment, giving shape to the artist’s experience of growing up in war-torn Vietnam.

An important survey of a significant figure in British contemporary photography, presenting work made in post-war Afghanistan and urban Africa.

A major exhibition of Peter Henry Emerson’s pioneering record of East Anglian life at the end of the 19th century.

John Davies’ large-scale black and white photographs tell stories about social and industrial history, progress and change.