Leicester Museum and Art Gallery welcomes group visitors.
Self-led group visits are free or book a private tour.
VISITOR NOTICE:
As part of a major capital investment in Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, we are currently working to create a range of new galleries.
Wild Space, the Den and the ground floor art galleries including the Victorian Art, Arts and Crafts and Picasso Ceramics galleries are now closed. The new art galleries will reopen in late 2025.
During this development period, the museum’s other galleries, including our exciting programme of temporary exhibitions, will remain open to visitors.
A small selection of the Picasso Ceramics collection, kindly donated by Lord and Lady Attenborough, are still available to view on the first floor.
Find out more about the Museum changes and further updates in our news section:
- Wild Space Gallery Now Closed (April 2024)
- Leicester Museum & Art Gallery - Have Your Say (September 2024)
Leicester Stories Gallery
A new permanent Gallery created with people from Leicester about the city’s achievements and challenges over the past 70 years.
Leicester people have selected the exhibition themes, told their own stories, proposed the milestone events and donated some of the objects featured in this new Gallery. Other content has been created by Leicester creatives and artists Jess Green (poem), Leonie DuBarry-Gurr (photography) and ImageNova (film) working with people from the city.
Come and add your thoughts about the city’s challenges and achievements.
Leicester Stories Gallery
Dinosaur Gallery
Then explore lost worlds in our Dinosaur Gallery, which shows what Jurassic life was like in Great Britain many millions of years ago. Highlights include the 15 metre Rutland Dinosaur and the Barrow Kipper, a marine reptile that was the first of its kind to be discovered. The Geology Gallery next door features the oldest fossil in the museum, Charnia, with a stunning display of other fossils, minerals and animal skeletons to illustrate geological methods of investigation.
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
The Dinosaur Gallery
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt Gallery
Expressionism: The Total Artwork Gallery
Egyptian artefacts on display
Leicester Stories Gallery
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt
Walk up the grand spiral staircase, inspired by an ammonite fossil, and into the Life and Death in Ancient Egypt galleries. There you will see the most important collection of ancient Egyptian objects in the East Midlands. The galleries feature four mummified ancient Egyptians and contain figurines, canopic jars and fragments of the Book of the Dead to shed light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed death and the afterlife.
German Expressionist Art Gallery
The Museum also houses Leicester’s internationally renowned collection of German Expressionism art in the Expressionism: The Total Artwork Gallery. This important collection began after the end of the Second World War with a bold exhibition of ‘Mid European Art’ in 1944. Other galleries include a World Arts and Community Gallery, and a varied programme of temporary and touring exhibitions.
Children's Activity Resources
We have a selection of activity packs for you to print at home and bring along on your visit to Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.