Corinium Museum

Visitors can trace the story of the Cotswolds from Prehistory to the late 19th Century, with hands-on exhibits, interactive displays and a wealth of precious artefacts. There are animated and practical games, and audio-visual screens to bring the past to life for everyone from schoolchildren to grandparents.

Special emphasis is placed on the town's Roman heritage, reflecting Cirencester'€™s importance as the second biggest Roman town, Corinium, outside London.

The Roman collection is now spread over two floors and includes marvellous mosaics, tombstones and sculpture as well as room and shop reconstructions and objects from everyday Roman life.

A dramatic new Anglo-Saxon gallery has been created to house the finds - including rare gold pendants - from the cemetery uncovered at Butler'€™s Field, Lechlade, in 1985. Here, visitors will come face to face with their ancestors in the shape of a forensically-reconstructed Anglo-Saxon man and child who were among the 219 bodies.

The centrepiece of this new gallery is the reconstruction of the grave of '€˜Mrs Getty'€™, the 6th Century Anglo-Saxon princess so nicknamed because of the 500 treasures buried with her.

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