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April 2023
Gladiator Re-enactment Day
The Corinium Museum welcome live Gladiators to the museum for the Easter holidays, 10-4pm. Re-enactment group LEGIO SECUNDA AUGUSTA will take over the museum’s hare gallery with their Gladiator shows during the school holidays. With talks and Gladiatorial combat, suitable for families, the group will bring Gladiators to life for museum visitor. Expect shouting and mayhem as the activities, that once took place in amphitheatres across the Roman Empire, are revived once again. Approximate timings for the gladiator re-enactment…
Find out more »Gladiator Re-enactment Day
The Corinium Museum welcome live Gladiators to the museum for the Easter holidays, 10-4pm. Re-enactment group LEGIO SECUNDA AUGUSTA will take over the museum’s hare gallery with their Gladiator shows during the school holidays. With talks and Gladiatorial combat, suitable for families, the group will bring Gladiators to life for museum visitor. Expect shouting and mayhem as the activities, that once took place in amphitheatres across the Roman Empire, are revived once again. Approximate timings for the gladiator re-enactment…
Find out more »Gladiator Re-enactment Day
The Corinium Museum welcome live Gladiators to the museum for the Easter holidays, 10-4pm. Re-enactment group LEGIO SECUNDA AUGUSTA will take over the museum’s hare gallery with their Gladiator shows during the school holidays. With talks and Gladiatorial combat, suitable for families, the group will bring Gladiators to life for museum visitor. Expect shouting and mayhem as the activities, that once took place in amphitheatres across the Roman Empire, are revived once again. Approximate timings for the gladiator re-enactment…
Find out more »Balance through movement
With this unique and dynamic movement practice, you will awaken your body, your mind and your voice, while developing your flexibility, mobility, tonicity, breathing and concentration through the fluidity of movement. The main points of this workshop: Developing calm, free, comfortable and simple breathing techniques that work in your everyday life. The importance of getting back your real self so you can make better use of your potential to adapt while remaining in tune. Boosting your strength and confidence…
Find out more »Book Signing – 100 Facts, Myths and Legends About The Cotswolds
Join us at the Corinium Museum shop for the opportunity to meet the authors of 100 Facts, Myths and Legends About the Cotswolds. Matt Cass and Paul James will be signing copies of their book which will be available to purchase in the shop. The Cotswolds is one of the country’s largest Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), covering almost 800 square miles and extending into five counties (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire). The 102-mile National Trail, the Cotswold…
Find out more »May 2023
Fashion, Wool and Status in Medieval Cirencester
This illustrated lecture zeros in on four objects from medieval and renaissance Cirencester: an ivory knife handle, a brass tomb plaque, a stone sculpture, and a 16th century portrait. It explores what these carved and painted figures are wearing, and how all of these garments relate to Cirencester's wool trade. Dr. Valija Evalds has a PhD in medieval art. She lectures in the history of textiles and the decorative arts at Hereford College of Arts. Booking recommended Part of Cirencester…
Find out more »We Are the Romans! Family Trail
Explore the museum galleries to see if you can find different people from the Roman times with our ‘We Are the Romans!’ family trail. Illustrations by World Book Day 2022 artist, Allen Fatimaharan, have been hidden around the museum galleries but can you find them all? In partnership with Welbeck Publishing, we invite families to, “Step back in time to Ancient Rome and meet some of the many people who lived, worked, and played during that time. From a young…
Find out more »The Sleeping Beauty The Royal Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 after World War II. In 2006, this original staging was revived and has been delighting audiences ever since. Frederick Ashton famously cited the pure classicism of Marius Petipa’s 19th-century ballet as a private lesson in the atmospheric art and craft of choreography. Be swept away…
Find out more »June 2023
Cotswold Archaeology Mick Aston Annual Lecture 2023
Roman tile production at Minety & the Building of Roman Britain Neil Holbrook & Peter Warry The village of Minety, 12 miles south of Cirencester, has long been known as a place where ceramic tile production took place during the Roman period, and in particular the likely source of tiles stamped with a series of Latin letters which are found in Cirencester, across the Cotswolds, and beyond. In 2022 Cotswold Archaeology commenced a community-based project at Brandiers Farm, the first…
Find out more »July 2023
Walking Roman Cirencester
New for the Summer of 2023 Corinium Museum, in collaboration with Cotswold Heritage Walks, is excited to launch 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.…
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