"King Richard III Visitor Centre opens in Leicester" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Jul 2014 11:10 a.m. PST |
"Leicester's new King Richard III Visitor Centre opened on Saturday. The £4.00 GBP million ($6.8 million) museum was built in the former Alderman Newton Boy's School, a Victorian brick building that over the years has housed a boy's school, a girl's school and most recently the Leicester Grammar School which closed in 2008. The building has been empty since then, but location is everything in real estate, and it just happens to be adjacent to the council parking lot under which the remains of King Richard III were discovered in September of 2012. Three months later, the city council providently bought the school building. The inside of the school has now been transformed into a voyage through the life and death of Richard III, and of the archaeological excavation that against all conceivable odds, found the king's mortal remains. The ground floor is dedicated to Richard III's life, his controversial rise to the throne at the expense of the nephews he declared illegitimate and locked up in the Tower of London never to be seen again, the three decades of conflict between the Lancaster and York branches of the Plantagenet dynasty known as the Wars of the Roses, and Richard's death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The story is told through high tech audio-visual displays where video projections recreate the places where Richard lived and died in an atmospheric, stylized manner. A digital reconstruction of Grey Friars Church shows visitors what the medieval church that used to stand where they are standing looked like. It includes a virtual visualization of Richard's tomb as it would have looked after Henry VII had a proper tomb built a few years after Bosworth…"
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Armand |
GamesPoet  | 28 Jul 2014 11:43 a.m. PST |
Interesting to see what's ging on with that, thank you! |
| Green Tiger | 28 Jul 2014 1:30 p.m. PST |
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| taskforce58 | 28 Jul 2014 7:41 p.m. PST |
GTiger: I'm quite sure it won't be on top of His Majesty. |
 ochoin | 29 Jul 2014 2:38 a.m. PST |
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| (Son of Frothers) | 29 Jul 2014 7:04 a.m. PST |
Boo, it should have been in York, or failing that Gloucester! |
| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2014 12:42 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
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