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The Harborough Museum - Details of location, opening times and history. Includes several photos and information on local WW soldiers.
Leicester City Museum - Covers nine museums in the city. Includes a selection of games and puzzles for children themed around the museums' collections.
National Space Science Centre - Space museum and discovery centre in Leicester. Ticket and booking details. Site map and attraction information.
Bellfoundry Museum - Comprehensive information, including history, photos, contact details and tour booking form. {Located in Loughborough]
Jewry Wall - Brief information from LCC about the museum around the Roman Jewry Wall in Leicester. Links to Abbey Pumping Station and the Guildhall.
Gas Museum - Information about Britain's first specialist gas museum. Includes opening times and links to other sites. [Located in Leicester.]
Lutterworth Historical Society - Small museum with a wealth of history from Roman times to World War II. Located near the parish church of St Mary which is associated with John Wycliffe. Also features a Sir Frank Whittle display. Details of opening times here.
Hallaton Village Museum - Contact information, location and opening times.
Foxton Canal Museum - Details from the Inclined Plane Trust about the Foxton Locks and Canal system and the award winning museum. Includes diary of forthcoming events.
Ashby Museum - Information about exhibitions, opening times, admission costs and the museum shop.
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A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Museums Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Museums Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Museums Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Museums "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Museums Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Museums Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Museums We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Museums Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Museums The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Museums "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Museums Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Museums There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Museums A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Museums What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Museums "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Museums Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. 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