Gloucester Folk Museum

99-103 Westgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2PG
England

Website

www.glos-city.gov.uk/folkmuseum

E-mail

Gloucester City Council

folk.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Culture, Leisure and Learning

Telephone

General information

01452 396868

Fax

01452 330495

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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Museum displays on three floors of three half-timbered buildings of c.1500-1650 plus new extensions at the rear of the site - Dairy, ironmonger's shop, wheelwright and carpenter workshops.
Gloucester Folk Museum won an MGM2000 award for audience development and innovative marketing with its African-Caribbean Memory Day project.
The Museum is fully registered with the Museums & Galleries Commission and is a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Open all year
Tues - Sat 1000-1700
Closed Mon, Sun

 Admission charges

Free admission to all

Discounts

  • British Association of Friends of Museums
  • English Heritage
  • Museums Association
  • National Trust
 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Gardens open to public
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
  • Children's play area
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 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
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Library with public access
  • 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

Access to reserve collections by arrangement.
Some collections information and images on public access computers; further to be made available through 'Living Gloucester' digitisation project.

99-103 Westgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2PG
England

Website

www.glos-city.gov.uk/folkmuseum

E-mail

Gloucester City Council

folk.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Culture, Leisure and Learning

Telephone

General information

01452 396868

Fax

01452 330495

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.

Collections cover the social history, trades, crafts and industries from the City & County of Gloucester from the mid-16th.century to the present.
The collections are of regional importance and currently in progress is a NOF-funded project for the digitisation of the collections along with images and information.
The top floor of the museum along with a building at the rear was used for making brass pins by hand during the 18th.and 19th.centuries.
There are regular special exhibitions and events.

Collection details

Agriculture, Architecture, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Industry, Land Transport, Medicine, Music, Personalities, Science and Technology, Social History, Toys and Hobbies, Trade and Commerce

Key artists and exhibits

  • The timber-framed buildings and wall paintings.
  • Re-construction of Victorian school room, shoemaker's shop,ironmonger's shop, wheelwright and carpenter workshops.
  • Childhood and Toys gallery with play-house and interactive material.
  • Fishing on the River Severn gallery.
  • Galleries on dairy and arable farming in Gloucestershire.
  • Washing, ironing and domestic life in general.
  • Horn,treen, glass and pewter.

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

99-103 Westgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2PG
England

Website

www.glos-city.gov.uk/folkmuseum

E-mail

Gloucester City Council

folk.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Culture, Leisure and Learning

Telephone

General information

01452 396868

Fax

01452 330495

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.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Face to face resources

Saturday Make and Take

http://www.gloucester.gov.uk/Freetime/Museums/TheFolkMuseum/ChildrensActivitiesatFolkMuseum.aspx

Drop into Gloucester Folk Museum for their Saturday Make and Take sessions. Enjoy free art and craft activities for all the family 11.00-15.00.

How to obtain

All activities are free and there is no need to book in advance, but children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Contact the museum on folk.museum@gloucester.gov.uk or call 01452 396868 for more details.

99-103 Westgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2PG
England

Website

www.glos-city.gov.uk/folkmuseum

E-mail

Gloucester City Council

folk.museum@gloucester.gov.uk

Culture, Leisure and Learning

Telephone

General information

01452 396868

Fax

01452 330495

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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