Folk at the Folk
Hop, skip and jump down to the folk museum for a fun filled day celebrating Gloucester’s folk traditions.
On Saturday 25th July from 11am-3 pm the city’s Folk Museum will be home to some of the best of Gloucestershire’s folk musicians and dancers.
The programme for the day includes: (more…)
Circus thrills and spills versus fights to death at the Colosseum
This summer the city’s museums will be looking at entertainment past and present.
Gloucester City Museum is celebrating the summer with Romans and gladiators in the ‘Colosseum’ exhibition. Discover the truth about the lives of the gladiators and the Roman crowds they entertained. (more…)
Both City Council run museums in Gloucester are set for major makeovers.
The City Museum and Art Gallery in Brunswick Road and the Folk Museum in Westgate Street have received a total of £730,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Now work will start later this year on major projects that will improve the facilities in both buildings.The Folk Museum will get a new purpose built education block and improvements to a gallery. (more…)
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