A Sense of History

Every city has its cathedral and Leicester is no exception. Ours is located next to the medieval Guildhall on the west side of the city centre. Leicester's origins date back to Roman times and the Jewry Wall Museum traces this history. On New Walk, the eighteenth century walk way that connects the campus to the city centre, you will find the New Walk Museum and City Art Gallery.

Forget Jurassic Park, we’ve got the biggest dinosaur in Europe and it’s in The Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery on New Walk. The colossus from Rutland has to be the City's oldest resident and is the highlight of a wonderfully varied collection which ranges from ancient Egyptian relics to German expressionist paintings. The museum also houses an important decorative arts collection and is host to a variety of special exhibitions like the recently acclaimed People’s Show.

Gas may be with us but steam is a technology of the past. Well you can now travel by steam power again on The Great Central Railway. Trains run regularly between the Leicester North and Loughborough, and you can dine in the restaurant car while you admire the Leicestershire countryside. You might even catch local boy, Sir Richard Attenborough, making his latest movie at one of the period-piece stations.

If your enthusiasm runs to vintage cars, try to get to The Leicester Mercury's Historic Transport Pageant at Abbey Park. It is held every year in May and is one of the Country's finest displays of classic vehicles from buses to bubble cars.

Leicester is undoubtedly a city with a sense of history, but we also find exhibition space for the best of the new. The City Gallery in Granby Street, for example, provides a showcase for contemporary painters, photographers, craftspeople and sculptors. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday and admission is free.

---

Leicestershire Museum & Art Gallery

New Walk

Newarke Houses Museum

The Newarke

Wygston's House

(Museum of Costume)

12 Applegate, St Nicholas Circle

Jewry Wall Museum

The Newarke

Leicester Museum of Technology

Abbey Pumping Station

Corporation Road

The Guildhall

Guildhall Lane

Museum of Royal Leicestershire Regiment

The Magazine

Oxford Street

---

All the Museums above are open: Mon-Sat 10.00-5.30 Sun 2.00-5.30 Closed Good Fridays, Christmas Day & Boxing Day

For more details call 255 4100

Belgrave Hall,
Church Road, Belgrave 266 6590

John Doran Gas Museum
Leicester Service Centre
Aylestone Road 253 5506

City Gallery
90 Granby Street 254 0595

Great Central Railway
Great Central Road
Loughborough 01509 230726

Street Entertainment
Town Hall Square,
Gallowtree Gate,
Humberstone Gate East,
Castle Park