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One Giant Leap Fest - BrickLive®, Outer Space Lego® trail

2019 marks 50 years since the Apollo missions #OneGiantLeapLeicester festival celebrates this anniversary with a number of events around the city. The Outer-Space trail by BRICKLIVE® takes visitors on a Space Race of their own to locate 15 LEGO® Brick Models of various rockets astronauts and more placed throughout the city centre. Put on your moon boots and blast off as we rub shoulders with Lego Neil Armstrong in Highcross, See the Space Shuttle ready for lift off at New Walk Museum and see the entire planet earth at the King Richard III visitor centre. There's lots to see and my film only shows a few of the pieces so your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to boldly go and find all 15 pieces.

Museum Of The Moon at Leicester Cathedral

I took a visit to see artist Luke Jerram`s Museum Of the Moon as it was suspended inside Leicester Cathedral. The piece is the focus of events by the University Of Leicester to mark British Science Week 2018 and is a joint project between the Artist, University and the Cathedral. Measuring 7 meters in diameter, MOTM features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the earths nearest neighbor and is lit from inside. At a scale of 1:500,000, each centimeter of the spherical sculpture represents 5 km of the moon’s surface. After the visit to Leicester the work will travel to the Commonwealth Games in Australia. for further information Artist:  www.lukejerram.com Leicester Cathedral: www.leicestercathedral.org University Of Leicester Science Week: https://le.ac.uk/science-week