During March and April 2022, we ran an online art psychotherapy group for adults who were under the care of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust mental health recovery teams. I am an Art Psychotherapist and I ran the group with Jessica Goodman, Mental Health Nurse.
Local vineyards and winemakers are preparing to celebrate English Wine Week from June 18th. This festival may be very new to the calendar, but the roots of English wine run all the way back to Roman Britain, and perhaps even before.
On 11th- 13th June 1953 at 9pm each night, Cirencester put on a Floodlit pageant in celebration of the Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.
I decided to complete my experiential learning placement at the Corinium museum, to gain a better understanding of how exhibits are designed, arranged, and displayed. I also wanted to see for myself, how visitors engaged with the exhibits from an observational perspective.
Glassworking had a long history before the Romans. Hellenistic glass workers would make bowls and cups by 'sagging' molten glass into moulds and items with hollow insides such as jugs and vases using a technique called ‘core-forming’.
Creating a 7ft Roman themed Hare is something Emma Abel is embarking upon, as part of the Hares of Hampshire summer trail 2022.
Blog post by JLM Morton, Corinium Museum’s poet in residence.
An emperor pairing himself with a god on a coin (as mentioned in the first part of this blog) is not unusual, however, we find many examples of this – Gordian, again from the third century, puts himself at the feet of Jupiter on the reverse of one of his coins to show his piety towards the king of gods and reverence for religion, perhaps in hope that it would help him ride through the many civil wars of that century; Domitian from the late first century AD, portrays the goddess Fortune with a cornucopia on the reverse of one of his coins, perhaps to show the success of one of the many military campaigns during his reign and to show the prosperity of the empire (as demonstrated by the cornucopia).
Two thousand and sixty-six years ago, in 44 BC, on the 15th day of March, the life of Julius Caesar, immortalised in literature and popular culture from his own time to ours, was brought to an end.
I will not pretend that everybody loves coins. It’s true – not everyone will spend the majority of their visit to a museum peering through the glass at some tiny circular discs of copper, silver or gold, whose miniscule inscriptions are barely visible to the human eye from close up, let alone from behind the glass! However, don’t be too quick to dismiss these coins: in bypassing them on your trip around the museum, you may be missing out on a truly fascinating story.
