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March 2024
Dudley’s Garden Spring Trail
Our Spring Trail is based on the beautiful award-winning picture books about Dudley’s Garden, written by Dinah Mason Eagers and illustrated by Anna Platts. There are two trails, one for children aged over five and one for under-fives. The children search the museum for the animals that live in three different habitats in Dudley’s garden, and then claim their prize. The books, published by Crumps Barn Studio in Cirencester, are also for sale in the museum shop and will make…
Find out more »April 2024
HORIZONS
Abigail Waddell is a contemporary landscape painter working mainly in oils. Based in the Cotswolds, Abigail is inspired by her local scenery as well as regular trips to Wales and North West Scotland. She enjoys working outdoors capturing the immediacy of light and movement in the skies in an impressionistic approach. Abigail was the winner of the 2022 British Art Prize Peoples’ choice award www.abigailwaddellart.co.uk Instagram: @awaddellart waddellart@gmail.com Sarah White is a local Cirencester Artist and textile designer. She is…
Find out more »Discover @ The Stores
Join us to discover the museum stores: the Cotswolds from prehistory to the 1950’s, 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 an ambassador’s sword. After a tour of the store we’ll focus on a few fascinating things that we’ve pulled out of their boxes or off their shelves. The store is full of surprises.…
Find out more »Swan Lake The Royal Ballet Live
Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her? Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this…
Find out more »Cirencester in the Civil War
Ian Thomas will lead a walk around the town bringing to life the ‘storming of Cirencester’ in 1643. See where events unfolded and consider the significance of Cirencester in the English Civil War. The walk will explore the town centre and the Abbey Grounds. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a raincoat! Booking recommended Limited to 10 people.
Find out more »One Life
One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Johnny Flynn, who, along with Trevor Chadwick (played by Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warinner (played by Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living…
Find out more »May 2024
Carmen The Royal Opera Live
Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the title role.
Find out more »Walking the Past
Join us for a tour of Cirencester with the Museum’s photographic collection as a guide. We will take you on a short walk around the town to see the changing face of the high street and its surrounds. The church and hotels may stay the same but businesses come and go. we will encourage you to stand where photographers of the past once stood to see Cirencester then and now. Walk lasts just over an hour. Please wear comfortable shoes…
Find out more »Conquerors or Conquered? The Bathgate Roman Cemetery
Cirencester Excavations Committee excavated what became known as the Bathgate Cemetery in the 1970s. Over 400 Roman individuals were excavated and examined by Calvin Wells, giving an insight into Roman life in Corinium. 40 years later some of these remains have been re-examined, and considering other research on Roman Britain the story of the people of Roman Corinium may be set to change. The Bathgate assemblage contains a range of pathology, trauma and osteological anomalies which makes them an intriguing…
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,…
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