{"id":433834,"date":"2026-02-19T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:56:08","slug":"model-planets-to-go-on-display-in-leicester-arts-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433834\/","title":{"rendered":"Model planets to go on display in Leicester arts trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chas Bishop, chief executive of the National Space Centre, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic to be working with the BID team on this amazing project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Planet Parade brings together creativity, education and community in a way that&#8217;s uniquely Leicester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By working with local artists and schools, we&#8217;re giving children a fun and accessible entry point into space science while celebrating the city&#8217;s proud space heritage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paper maps will be available at each planet location, allowing children to tick off each stop as they go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planet locations include Jewry Wall, Leicester Cathedral, Haymarket Shopping Centre, Phoenix, Curve, and Leicester Museum &amp; Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trail launches with a public community celebration on 30 March, starting with a parade at 16:30 GMT from Leicester Cathedral to Haymarket Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chas Bishop, chief executive of the National Space Centre, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic to be working with the BID&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}