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February 2025
Mammoths at the Museum Family Trail
During half term week we are launching our new Mammoths at the Museum family trail to coincide with our Mammoths at the Museum free exhibition. The trail has been designed using illustrations by children’s illustrator Sally Poyton. There are six mammoths dressed in costumes from different time periods hidden around the museum. Find all the mammoths and discover the characters from history they represent and win a prize! Find the three bonus mammoths and claim another prize! There are two…
Find out more »March 2025
Shout for Joy
The Hesed Collective is a group of artists and friends from the Baptist Church in Cirencester. The artists, Jude Beebee, Elaine Bentley, Ed Brooke-Lawrenson, Richard Busk, and Alice Langtree, work in oils, printing and mixed media with textiles. Free exhibition.
Find out more »The Royal Ballet: Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare’s great love story is brilliantly retold through this modern ballet classic celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025. The fervent longing of the star-crossed lovers is perfectly captured by Kenneth MacMillan’s impassioned choreography.
Find out more »Tour of the Stores
Come and join our collections team for a tour of the stores. There are all sorts of objects behind those doors: from prehistoric to the 1950s, through stone, costume, pottery, rural life and social history. We have scythes and hoovers, pottery from all ages and Roman mosaics, carved column plinths and stone coffins, medieval tiles and corbels, smocks and horse collars. We will take you round and tell you all about what we have and what we do in the…
Find out more »Walking Roman Cirencester
Corinium Museum, in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to offer a series of historic walking tours. The event will be led by archaeologist, Dr Alison Grierson-Brookes, former Head of Collections at Corinium Museum, who has begun a new venture combining her two great passions archaeology and walking! Head out with Alison to explore what lies beneath your feet revealing the ancient town of Roman Corinium, parts of the wall and impressive amphitheatre. After a short break for refreshments,…
Find out more »Rural Cinema – Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalene laundries -- horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women." Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan. Director Tim Mielants Producer…
Find out more »April 2025
The Royal Opera Live: Turandot
Puccini’s captivating opera of a cold-hearted princess and her mysterious suitor. Featuring the ever-popular ‘Nessun dorma’, this opera of love and revenge is brought to life in a dazzling production.Cast: Sondra Radvanovsky, SeokJong Baek, Gemma Summerfield, Adam Palka. Director: Andrei Șerban | Conductor: Raphael Payare
Find out more »Corinium Afternoons
Collections Engagement Assistant Phillip Brant-Simmons gives the full story of everything that happened from the time the swords were discovered to their display and all the wonderful things learnt along the way.
Find out more »Cirencester Wool Walk
“The finest and most expensive wool was the English which came from the Cotswolds and, in particular, from Northleach and the great Abbey lands of Cirencester” Francesco Datini, 15th Century Florentine merchant. Five hundred years ago it was noted that ‘half the wealth of England rides on the back of sheep.’ Join Ian Thomas for a walk around Cirencester, where the hustle and bustle of the medieval town will be brought to life through the lives and skills of the wool combers, the…
Find out more »Brickus Orpheus
Follow our mythical trail of people, gods, goddesses and animals to mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the Orpheus Mosaic and celebrate all things Orpheus.
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