Archive Sundays
Free Event
Event Description
Come and explore highlights from the Council’s Photographic Archive
Come and explore some of the highlights of the Council’s Photographic collection with Archive Sundays. See themed digital exhibitions created by volunteers, on display at three of Leicester's Museums this autumn!
Archive Sundays is a project created by Leicester Museums Volunteers who are working on digitising the City Council’s vast collection of photographic negatives. The archive currently contains over 100,000 images that provide a photographic record of Leicester and how the city has changed over the last 70 years, with thousands more to be discovered.
Volunteers select photographs which centre around a chosen theme to create digital exhibitions which can then be showcased to members of the public.
Exhibition Programme:
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
- Sunday 13th October: Abbey Park, Graffiti, Terraced Living, Windows & Doors
- Sunday 20th October: Carnival, Fixing a hole, Rugby, Thomas Cook
Abbey Pumping Station
- Sunday 13th October: Cinema, City of Leicester Show, Trams, Washing Lines
- Sunday 20th October: Construction of Middleton Street Bridge, Gas, IWA Rally, Masks & Costumes
Leicester Guildhall
- Sunday 20th October: Concerts, Leicester Guildhall, Pubs, Radio
Please check this page for more Archive Sundays to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Image: Southfields, January 1969
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