of most significant historical and cultural interest is the chippendale society collection of chippendale works that are on permanent loan. temple newsam house is one of leeds museums and galleries sites, and has an international reputation for scholarship and research, unusual in a local authority museum service. in his book "britain's best museums and galleries", mark fisher (a former dcms minister) gave museum an excellent review. when interviewed on front row, radio 4, november 2004 fisher placed temple newsam house in the top three non-national museums in the country, along with birmingham's barber institute and the dulwich picture gallery.