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The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery (until 2020, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery) is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. [1] It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. [2] Leicester Museum & Art Gallery contains displays of science, history and art, both international and local.
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery: Leicester: Multiple: Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art Newarke Houses Museum: Leicester: Multiple: Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene Old Rectory Museum: Loughborough: Local
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leicester, the county town of Leicestershire, in England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1972 he assumed the role of director of museums and art galleries for Leicester City Council, thus running eight museums, including the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, now Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, and two years later was elevated to the directorship of arts, museums and records for Leicestershire County Council. [11]
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In England, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 [2] rests with Historic England, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Local authorities have a responsibility to regulate and enforce the planning regulations.
The Magazine Gateway (aka The Magazine and also called Newarke Gateway) is a Grade I listed building in Leicester. Now a solitary landmark alongside Leicester ringroad, it was originally the main gateway of a walled enclosure built around 1400, giving access to the religious precinct of The Newarke. The vaulted archway was open to traffic until ...
Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015, [1] and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018.