Celebrating New Walk
25th July – 27th September 2009
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Please note: This exhibition is now closed
Marking the 40th anniversary of New Walk’s status as a Conservation Area. Over 100 students, both mainstream and those with learning difficulties, on a wide variety of arts courses have spent several months developing artwork for this exhibition. Each group has produced artworks inspired by the architecture, the environment and the historical legacy of New Walk.
Exhibition Events:
WEA Celebrating New Walk
Guided Tour: New Walk, New Walk
Saturday 25th July, 3.00pm & Saturday 1st August, 10.00am
Meet Outside New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Stroll down Leicester's picturesque thoroughfare and listen to stories about its development into an elegant walkway, its fine buildings and interesting people.
WEA Celebrating New Walk
Guided Tour: Location, Location, Location
Sunday 26th July, 3.00pm & Friday 31st July, 2.00pm
Meet Outside New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
The area between New Walk and Regent Road provided some of the ‘best’ addresses in Leicester during the 19th century. Discover who built the properties, who lived there and what they did.
WEA Celebrating New Walk
Guided Tour: The Quick and the Dead
Monday 27th July & Wednesday 29th July
7.30pm
Meet Outside New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Once described as 'the solely respectable street in Leicester' - has this always been true? We go in search of the great, the good and the bad of New Walk, both those long gone and others whose ghosts still haunt the area.
Exhibition opening hours:
Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 11.00am - 5.00pm
Free admission to exhibition & museum
Address:
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
53 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7EA
Telephone: +44 (0)116 225 4900
Email: museums@leicester.gov.uk
Organised by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
