Caption: Councillor John Procter with Dr Rock
Builders working on the new special exhibition at Leeds City Museum have discovered a long lost gallery within the building full of exciting minerals and experiments.
Inhabiting the gallery was Dr Rock, a museum curator, together with a rock collection and numerous strange objects and experiments. Leeds City Museum has decided to open this space for free to the public so they can find out what Dr Rock has unearthed.
Dr Rock, a rock and mineral genius in his own right will be around the museum throughout the duration of the exhibition, but finding him could be a struggle. Many of his memos and films have been left around the exhibition to allow the public an insight into his work.
Leeds City Council executive member for Leisure Councillor John Procter said:
“The new special exhibition is going to be great fun for the people of Leeds. Dr Rock is a real character and he has unearthed a great range of interactive exhibits and exciting minerals.”
On display there will be a collection of poisonous rocks, human implants and the effects of putting a mobile phone in a blender amongst other exciting things.
The exhibition takes over from ‘A Game of Two Halves’ and will be open to the public on Friday 29th January.
Dr Rock is updating his blog frequently at: http://dr-rocks.blogspot.com/ .
Take a look to keep up to date on new experiments and any new finds.
The special exhibition is free and will be running from Friday 29th January to Sunday 4th July 2010.
For more information about the museum visit www.leeds.gov.uk/citymuseum
Notes to editors:
Please be advised that Dr Rock is a fictitious character, although he is based on one of the museum curators, Joe Botting. The Lost Gallery is located in the special exhibitions space on the top floor of the museum.
Dr Rock (Joe Botting) will be around the exhibition on some days, but will be constantly maintaining a blog, so the public can keep up to date with any new experiments etc.
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For media enquiries please contact:
Catherine Milburn,
Learning and Leisure Communications Assistant
on 0113 247 8285
Email: catherine.milburn@leeds.gov.uk
