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		<title>Spring in the step of The Century Theatre with dance double bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Century Theatre’s spring 2012 programme leaps into action with an exciting double bill of contemporary dance presented by regional dance agency Dance4. The event on Wednesday February 8th marks the theatre’s first programme of professional dance and heralds a new partnership between the theatre and Dance4. The evening’s programme includes Badlands by Robert Clark, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3021&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hallaton Roman Helmet on public display for the first time in 2000 years today</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Hallaton Roman Helmet went on public display for the first time in 2000 years. The display completes the Hallaton Treasure Gallery at Harborough Museum (insert link) following 9 years of excavation, conservation and restoration work on the helmet at the British Museum (insert link). The Helmet is displayed alongside Cheekpiece 6 which was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3015&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing the Treasure Exhibition Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the excitement of the Hallaton Helmet making international news on 10 January, staff at Harborough Museum needed to come back down to earth and focus on practical matters. The new graphic panels relating to the helmet have been installed in the Hallaton Treasure Gallery.  A beautiful curved glass fronted case is also sitting empty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3009&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Reconstructed Hallaton Helmet is unveiled&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9am on Tuesday 10 January the reconstructed Hallaton Helmet was unveiled to the media at the British Museum in London.  The reconstructed bowl was displayed alongside two cheekpieces which were found alongside it.  Many people who attended the event couldn’t believe how fantastic it looked having only ever seen it previously as hundreds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3005&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2,000 Year Old Leicestershire Treasure Comes Home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A magnificent Roman helmet which lay buried in a Leicestershire field for 2000 years then underwent nine years of restoration at the British Museum, is finally coming home for permanent display. The Hallaton Helmet will be publicly displayed for the first time on Saturday 28 January at Harborough Museum, Market Harborough. It will be reunited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3013&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reconstructing the Helmet Fragments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to be displayed at Harborough Museum the helmet needed to have any gaps in its surface filled in.  This would not only improve its appearance but also make it stronger.  Once all fragments of the helmet were located, they were reconstructed temporarily on a head-shaped piece of foam in order to determine the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3002&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Henry the Skeleton clocks over 2,000 miles in his Olympic bid</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A museum’s resident skeleton has cycled more than 2,000 miles in a bid to pedal the distance of Beijing to London. However, Snibston Discovery Museum’s resident skeleton, Henry, still needs people to help him complete his year-long challenge before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. Now, just over a third of the way into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=3000&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing more decorative details by laser</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fragments of the Hallaton Helmet’s bowl and neckguard were starting to resemble a helmet shape in Autumn 2011 as the British Museum&#8217;s conservation team began to fit them together on a head-shaped piece of foam.  Martin Cooper from the Department of Conservation Technologies at National Museums Liverpool was brought in to laser scan the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=2991&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fantastic 3D record of a very fragile object!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hallaton Helmet’s browguard was laser scanned by Martin Cooper from the Department of Conservation Technologies at National Museums Liverpool in Autumn 2011.  Martin had already laser scanned the helmet when it was still in the helmet soil block and this had very successfully shown details of the design which could not be easily be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=2985&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing together the fragments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Autumn 2011, the conservation team working on the Hallaton Helmet began to mount fragments of the helmet’s bowl and neckguard together on a head shaped piece of foam now that joining pieces had been cleaned and identified.  The fragments were held in position by L-shaped pegs stuck into the foam.  This was the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leicestershiremuseums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6312537&amp;post=2982&amp;subd=leicestershiremuseums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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