Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery is a world of discovery with collections and displays spanning the natural and cultural world. General entry is free to all visitors.
New Walk's world of discovery

Welcome to Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

A family friendly day out, the galleries include Ancient Egypt, Dinosaurs, Leicester Stories Gallery, and Leicester's internationally renowned German Expressionism collection. Please note that some parts of the museum are currently closed for a major redevelopment that will create a range of exciting new galleries showcasing Leicester's world class art and design collections (see visitor notice below for latest details). Formerly known as New Walk Museum.

The museum hosts a vast array of temporary exhibitions, featuring works from the collections and touring exhibitions from national museums. Plus a range of activities from entertaining talks, children’s handling sessions, lunchtime concerts, licensed for weddings, civil ceremonies and available for private hire.

Visit the gift shop to buy a range of exhibition merchandise and contemporary crafts, or pop by the Museum refreshment area to recharge with a drink, some food and free wifi.

Address

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
53 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7EA

Email: museums@leicester.gov.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)116 225 4900

Opening times

Monday to Friday: 11am - 4.30pm

Saturday and Sunday: 11am - 5pm

Christmas 2024, the museum will be closed on the following dates:

24th, 25th and 26th December

31st December and 1st January 2025

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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.

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Visitor Comments

'What an absolutely brilliant place this, there is an incredible range of exhibits from an outstanding dinosaur exhibition, through an impressive Egyptian one to the quite stunning display of Victorian art. I hadn't expected to spend anywhere near as long as I ended up spending here, but I was just drawn in by everything. Every display is so well curated, to inform and entertain and to keep your attention, each had so much to offer, there wasn't one that I walked away from with anything but appreciation for the thought that had gone into it.'

'We had a fantastic time at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery. The children age 6 & 8 found it very very exciting to discover what ancient Egypt artefacts they could. There are plenty of interactive things for the whole family to do. Would highly recommend going.'

Museum of Sanctuary

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery is proud to announce that we have attained the prestigious Museum of Sanctuary Award. We join only four other museums across the entire United Kingdom who have achieved this important award which shows that the Museum welcomes all people who are seeking refuge, regardless of background or circumstances.

Read more about this prestigious award.