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The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre.〔 The original building was designed by Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab.〔Harris, Penelope, "The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882)", The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010, ISBN 0-7734-3851-3〕 Two dinosaur skeletons are permanently installed in the museum — a cetiosaur found in Rutland (affectionately named George), and a plesiosaur from Barrow upon Soar.〔(Official website )〕 Other permanent exhibits include an Egyptian area, minerals of Leicestershire, the first Charnia fossil identified nearby, and a wildspace area featuring stuffed animals from around the world. The museum opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums established within the United Kingdom〔(University of Leicester ).〕 In September 2011, the New Walk Museum expanded its Dinosaur Gallery, reorganizing fossils, adding a new room, and modifying the gallery itself. The opening of the new Dinosaur Gallery was launched by David Attenborough.〔(Culture24 )〕〔 The "star attractions" of the new gallery include the aforementioned Rutland cetiosaur, Charnia and plesiosaur fossils, as well as a ''Leedsichthys'' fossil and a piece of the Barwell Meteorite. The new gallery predominantly features on extinct marine reptiles. ==Major exhibits== The Rutland Dinosaur, or George, is the nickname given to LCM G468.1968, a specimen of ''Cetiosaurus oxoniensis''. The fifteen-meter dinosaur, which is among the most complete sauropod skeletons in the world, was discovered in June 1968, in the Williamson Cliffe quarry near Little Casterton and Great Casterton. The skeletal remains have been in the museum since 1975, and the majority of the bones in the display are replicas of the fragile bones unable to be used.〔(Leicester City Council )〕 The Rutland Dinosaur featured on an episode of ''Blue Peter'', and was opened opened by ''Blue Peters Janet Ellis in 1985. The Barrow Kipper is a skeleton of an unidentified plesiosaur discovered in Barrow upon Soar in 1851. Originally classified as ''Plesiosaurus macrocephalus'', it was later reclassified as ''Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus''. However, according to Adam Smith and Gareth Dyke (2008), the fossil is actually of another, unnamed genus. Along with other artefacts, four Egyptian mummies are displayed in the museum, named Pa-nesit-tawy, Pe-iuy, Bes-en-Mut and Ta-Bes.〔(Leicester City Council )〕 Discovered by Roger Mason at Charnwood Forest in 1957, the holotype of the Precambrian ''Charnia masoni'' is displayed in the New Walk Museum.〔(Leicester City Council )〕 In 2007, more than 100 pieces of art went on display at the museum, donated by Richard Attenborough. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Walk Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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