Leeds Museums and Galleries is the largest local‎-authority‎-run museum service in England and Wales with nine sites ranging from magnificent stately homes‎,‎ industrial sites‎,‎ museums‎,‎ an art gallery and a medieval abbey‎.‎ Core to the service are the collections‎,‎ an estimated 1.3 million individual objects across a vast range of disciplines which have an international reputation for their quality‎,‎ depth and unique nature‎.‎ Through them stories can be told about world civilisations‎,‎ human evolution‎,‎ the rise of the industrialised world‎,‎ human creativity and the environment in which we live‎.‎ In this book‎,‎ the Director of Leeds Museums and Galleries draws from these vast collections to highlight the objects and artworks that resonate for him personally‎,‎ giving his reasons why they do so and inviting us to seek them out ourselves when we visit‎.‎