King Richard III Visitor Centre
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| Location | 4A Saint Martins, Leicester, LE1 5DB, England, United Kingdom |
| Visitors | 300,000+ (since 2014) |
| Website | kriii |
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Key historic sites of Leicester Old Town. The Roman and medieval walls are marked by the dotted line. The visitor centre stands on the site of Greyfriars and is marked in green and bold letters. The one surviving Roman ruin is marked in purple. The secular sites are in blue. The towns five surviving ancient churches are in red. The dissolved mendicant and chantry foundations are in black. The key site of Leicester Abbey over the river is beyond the borders of the map to the north east.
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015.
For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park. DNA evidence enabled the identification of his remains.
The centre opened on 26 July 2014 on the site of the then recently excavated Greyfriars, the medieval friary where the King was buried in 1485 following his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.