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 St Barnabas 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?

St Barnabas Library Museum Objects

Door knocker, from Towers Hospital, Leicester, 1860s

Mineral water bottles, made by Apollinaris Brunnen, Stoneware, Germany, 1920s

Pitch pipe, with a music range from A to G, 1820s

Doll, Bisque, made by Armand Marseille, Germany, 1920s

BRITE Centre Museum Objects

Roof tile, Roman tegula, featuring three impressions of dog paw prints

Lemon squeezer, made from sycamore, Old Hall Farm, Braunstone, 1880s

Salt box, wood, Braunstone Hall Farm, 1850

Cannon Ball, Leicester, 1645