Come along to a Museum Tots session and browse the galleries to find special tot friendly animal themed activities. Giving you a chance to paint, stick, create, try out some new toys and listen to storytime, as well as meeting with other parents and tots. The theme will be 'Communication'.
Culture Club – ‘WW1 Poems from the Trenches and beyond’, with Ian McKay Trench warfare and other horrors of WW1 produced some remarkable poetry. Long before video-diaries or i-phones, poets caught up in the conflict captured their feelings and those of their comrades. The speaker will read from Brooke, Owen, Sassoon and others, including Gurney […]
A one-off event to talk about the unique history of a Gloucester tank will be held at the city museum Gloucester tank ‘Daphne’ was rediscovered in September this year at a Lincolnshire museum where it had lived for more than 30 years. ‘The surprising history of Gloucester's Great War tank’ talks by expert Gwyn Evans will be […]
Join City Museum Curator David Rice for this access-all-areas tour. Delve into the amazing unseen and intriguing world of the thousands of artefacts and specimens collected over 150 years that we have no room to display, and really experience what it’s like to work in such a historic museum. These tours are rarely offered so […]
Dr John-Ashdown Hill is a British historian who discovered the mtDNA sequence, this enabled the University of Leicester team to declare that the bones found on the Greyfriars dig were indeed the remains of King Richard III. Join John as he takes us on a fascinating journey of how this came to be. A selection […]
Be amongst the first to see the exhibition the evening before it opens to the public. Tickets £10 per person. Light refreshments provided.
Some people love to wrap their own presents and some people don't!! If you include yourself as one of the latter then feel free to take advantage of the City Museums Christmas gift wrapping service. They will have a wrapping station armed and ready to wrap your gifts for two Saturdays in the run up […]
Christmas decorations are on the menu today, come along to either the morning or afternoon workshop and go away with some fabulous Christmas decorations – all made with your own fair hands! 20th November, 10.30am – 1pm or 2pm – 4.30pm, City Museum £35 per person, includes all materials, tuition, teas / coffees and biscuits. […]
The City Council’s City Museum will throw open its doors for one night only in November for visitors to get an experience of a lifetime by spending a night in the museum. Fans of the film, 'Night at the Museum', will know that museums come to life at night, although there is no promise of […]
