Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery

Brunswick Road
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 1HP
England

Website

www.gloucester.gov.uk/libraries/templates/page.asp?URN=919

E-mail

city.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Telephone

01452 396131

Fax

01452 410898

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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The collections are housed on two floors in a Grade 1 listed Victorian building with stained glass windows and fine plasterwork ceiling on the first floor. Art and temporary exhibition galleries were added in the 1960's.
The Museum is fully registered with the Museums & Galleries Commission and is a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Tues-Sat 1000-1700

Closed for refurbishment until Easter 2011

 Admission charges

Discounts

  • Museums Association
 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Mail order service available
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Additional info

Activity stations throughout the galleries
Computer quizzes
Special activities during school holidays
Lunchtime lecture series

Brunswick Road
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 1HP
England

Website

www.gloucester.gov.uk/libraries/templates/page.asp?URN=919

E-mail

city.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Telephone

01452 396131

Fax

01452 410898

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Treasures from all over Gloucestershire reveal the county's early history - dinosaur bones and diorama; life of early man; the beautiful Bronze age Birdlip Mirror; life and death in Roman Gloucestershire; the amazing Gloucester Tables Set (early backgammon) and an intricate Mediaeval closing ring from a local church.
Discover beautiful antique furniture, clocks and decorative arts and paintings by well known artists such as Turner and Gainsbough. (Art gallery is occasionally closed for use for temporary exhibitions.)
An exciting range of events and activities take place all year, with a wide range of temporary exhibitions.

Collection details

Archaeology, Coins and Medals, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Natural Sciences

Key artists and exhibits

  • Wilson;
  • Gainsborough;
  • Turner;
  • Atkinson Grimshaw;
  • Birdlip Mirror;
  • Gloucester Tableset;
  • Plesiosaur;
  • Rufus Sita tombstone;
  • Hornsleasow Jurassic fossils
  • Barometers;
  • Steeple cup;
  • Corsley silver;
  • Bon Marche Head;
  • St Nicholas' closing ring;
  • Massinger flagon;
  • Wickwar maces;
  • Limoges crosier;
  • Lugg lantern clock;
  • Simmons cart hourses;
  • Newnham sword;
  • Roman altars;
  • Antifix

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Brunswick Road
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 1HP
England

Website

www.gloucester.gov.uk/libraries/templates/page.asp?URN=919

E-mail

city.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Telephone

01452 396131

Fax

01452 410898

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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