AFTER a three month closure for improvements works to its disabled facilities, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, will re-open on Saturday, January 29, with a breathtaking exhibition.

Fantasy Architecture 1500-2036 looks at the way the world might have looked if historic visions for development came to fruition.

The towns and cities we live in today might have looked completely different if historic designs and plans had not been pulled due to a lack of funds, political changes or because they were technically ahead of their time.

Not only does the exhibition examine how different the contemporary world might have been, if these plans had been realised, but also how close the architecture of the future will be to that already familiar in science fiction films and the fantastic virtual environments of computer games.

The exhibition, which runs until April 9, includes 130 imagined buildings from the late medieval period to the present by artists and architects from Inigo Jones to Edwin Lutyens, Erno Goldfinger to Foster and Partners.

The museum is open Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, Sunday, 11am-4pm, and closed bank holidays. The museum's lift and accessible toilets will not re-open until the completion of building work in May.

Admission is free.