It's so easy to dismiss your own towns library, museum and art gallery. Sure its a stunningly beautiful building, one of the most iconic in Preston, but it's inside where the changes and the familiarity combine with style, elegance and captivating interest. What always strikes me once you've entered through one of the side entrance is the magnificence of the hall as you enter. The gift shop and helpful advice can be found in the entrance hall, but my eyes are LwYs drawn to the thousands of names listed and fondly remembered for the ultimate service they gave their country during the world wars. All of these names belong to Preston as much as the stone that makes the Harris the building it is. I had the fortune of being taken on a guide of the museum by one of the curators. This carefully choreographed tour gave much more depth than a solitary browse through the museum may do. The Curator brought the costumes to relevance vividly as she did with maps from the area we as a group represented, Ingol. The tour allowed the more able in the group to enjoy the Egyptian Gallery, before we all took an awe inspiring trip to the underground levels in the museum where countless books, displays and object d'arte are kept. Really worth organising if you can bring a group and organise a tour. For those of you who like to navigate round yourself, there is great interactivity all around the museum, no more so than in The Story of Preston. This has been substantially modernised and also allows for school groups or as I saw a speech on Mental Health and the help in the community. As well as fantastic cabinet's with artefacts from all over, the museum also has temporary displays (for example the incredible three dimensional moon display earlier in the year) and very often houses live music, poets, speakers, a really lively soul to a beautiful museum. I consider myself very lucky to have such a beautiful market square and its surrounding building. The Harris is the finest of them all and somewhere I will return over and over again.