You Choose! Museums in Your Library

Leicester Museums & Galleries are bringing museum objects to your doorstep. A new project to install museum objects in Leicester Libraries is underway and you can get involved!

The project, called 'You Choose!' is happening at Hamilton Library and the Brite Centre in Braunstone. Visitors are being asked to choose from a selection of objects from the Museum Collection that will then go on display in a special case. Visitors can choose their favourite by placing a sticky dot on a photo of the objects while at the library.

Which will you choose?

The following image galleries showcase the current objects that are being considered for display - which would you choose?

Hamilton Library

Museum Objects to choose from:

• Telephone from H & A Bennett department store, Leicester, 1920s.
• Hamilton bottle, Latchmore and Hogan Soda Water Manufacturers, Leicester, 1850s.
• Child's tin money box in the shape of a book, 1930s.
• Footstool spittoon, from the Talbot Inn, Denman Street, Leicester, 1860s.

Brite Centre

Museum Objects to choose from:

• Steam Train Headlamp, 1920s.
• Confectionery tin, Radiance Ltd. liquorice nougat, 1910s.
• Children’s wooden money box, 1830s.
• Pair of women’s pattens shoes, late 1800s.