A sculpture from Harlow town centre is on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum after being carefully moved there for an exhibition.
The famous Harlow Family Group piece of art is on loan to the London museum for an exhibition on modern design.
The 1.7m high stone sculpture by Henry Moore usually sits in a display window at Harlow Civic Centre, and it took a removal team more than four hours to carefully pack it up and move it in March.
The sculpture, which depicts a couple and a baby, had to be taken out of the reception area of the centre using special lifts.
The exhibition at the V&A is called British Design 1948 to 2012 and the Harlow Family Group represents the new town design of Harlow. It will run until August 12.
Cllr Joel Charles, Harlow Council’s portfolio holder for community and citizenship, said: “The Harlow Family Group sculpture symbolises the new town for many people, and it is absolutely fitting it is going on loan to an exhibition dedicated to modern British design at the Victoria and Albert museum.
“Harlow’s reputation as a centre for arts and sculpture continues to grow. Within the last year we have won a national award for our public collection of more than 60 sculptures and John Mills, one of Britain’s leading sculptors, chose Harlow for a rare retrospective of his work last summer.”
Will Rea, chair of the Harlow Art Trust, said: “Harlow was a classic new town development of the 20th century and is now seen as a classic of 20th century architecture. The prominence of the Harlow Family Group sculpture in the show is recognition of that fact.”