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Cartoonish pumpkin, ghosts and bat motifs on a yellow background.
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Until Sat 24 Oct 2026
Pumpkin Competition
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Leeds Museums & Galleries
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Get ready to unleash your imagination as our ever-popular pumpkin design competition returns for another year!

The Leeds City Museum Pumpkin Competition is back! Have you got the most spook-tacular pumpkin idea? Whether you’re 5 or 95, everyone is invited to take part.

Here’s how it works:

Pick up your entry sheet at the museum and design your dream pumpkin.

You can use any art materials of your choice to make your own unique pumpkin masterpiece! Whether it’s spooky, funny or completely bonkers, we can’t wait to see it.

Our faboo-lous team will select the lucky winners and transform their ideas into real pumpkins, which will then be proudly displayed at the museum this Halloween.

Visitors can then vote for their favourite in our people’s choice pumpkin poll. The overall winner will receive a prize!

• Dream it
• Design it
• See it come to life

Don’t forget, please submit your entry at least one week before Halloween to give us enough time to create as many pumpkins as we can.

Pumpkins will be on display:
Saturday 31 October – Sunday 1 November

Subject to opening hours.

Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 8BH
United Kingdom

53.8011435, -1.5478826

    Date
    Thu 1 Oct 2026 - Sat 24 Oct 2026

    Ticket price

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    Accessible toilet
    Baby changing facilities
    Family friendly venue
    Wheelchair accessible
    Changing places facility
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