🇬🇧 Leicester Attractions (Part 2) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 De Montfort University 🎓 🏫 De Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in Leicester, originally established as Leicester Polytechnic. Located near the River Soar and Leicester Castle Gardens, the institution has over 140 years of teaching and research history and is evolving into a comprehensive university. Under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, it gained university status and now awards its own degrees. 🏫 The university currently has 27,000 full-time and part-time students, organized into four main faculties: Faculty of Arts, Design, and Humanities 🎨 Faculty of Business and Law 💼⚖️ Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 🧬🔬 Faculty of Computing, Engineering, and Media 💻🔧 The university is named after Simon de Montfort, a 13th-century nobleman and the 6th Earl of Leicester. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Abbey Park Leicester 🌳 🚀 National Space Centre 🪐 A museum dedicated to space science and astronomy, run in partnership with the University of Leicester’s Space Research Centre. Located in northern Leicester near the River Soar, it features a landmark translucent Teflon-coated building housing vertical rockets and interactive exhibits. 🏭 Abbey Pumping Station 🏗️ Opened in 1891, this former sewage pumping station was decommissioned in 1964. It now operates as a museum showcasing four steam-powered beam engines, along with exhibits on water management, public health, transport, optics, toys, and civil engineering. 🏡 The park itself is a public green space opened in 1882, featuring the ruins of a medieval abbey and a beautiful Chinese-style garden 🏯. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Newarke Houses Museum 🪖 📍 A military history museum located on the DMU campus, exhibiting artifacts and stories related to British and Leicester’s military heritage. #UKTravel 🇬🇧 #CulturalHeritage 🏛️ #Leicester 🦊 #England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #DeMontfortUniversity