Welcome to the Roman Alcester Museum website
Christmas/ New Year
The Museum will be closed when the Library is closed, as follows:
Closed from 5.30pm Monday 23rd December to 10am Saturday 28th December 2024 & from 5.30pm Monday 30th December to 9.30am Thursday 2nd January 2025 9.30am.
Please note: There will not be any volunteer guides in the Museum from 1pm on Saturday 21st December until 10.30 am on Saturday 1st February 2025. On other days our volunteers are in the Museum from 10.30am to 3.30pm.
Opening Times
Our normal opening times are as follows:
- Monday 09.30 – 17.00
- Tuesday closed all day
- Wednesday 09.30 to 17.00
- Thursday 09.30 to 17.00
- Friday 09.30 to 17.00
- Saturday 10.00 to 15.30
- Sunday closed all day
Discover Roman Alcester
Roman Alcester is the exciting free-of-charge exhibition interpreting and displaying objects from Alcester’s Roman past and providing an information and learning resource on the Roman period.
Alcester is one of the most investigated Roman small towns in the country, with over 100 archaeological digs in the last 80 years. Recent excavations have revealed much about the area of the Roman town which would have been outside the boundary wall built in the 3rd century AD.
Come to Roman Alcester and find out what life was like there in Roman times between the 1st and 4th centuries AD.
New QR codes: To help you get the most from your visit, QR codes (example below) have been added to many artefacts which, via a smartphone code reader, will allow you to explore more detail than can be provided in the exhibit cases. If you don’t already have a QR code reader on your phone, you can download a FREE reader via your phone’s app store.
Christmas Shopping
Looking for Christmas present ideas? The Museum shop has a wide variety of items that would make great Christmas gifts. The shop is open whenever the Library is open, so why not get the shopping sorted early? For details of the books on sale click here.
Centurions Programme 2024
The new Centurions Programme for 2024 is now available on the Events Page. There is an additional event on Tuesday 22nd October at 2pm at the Museum presented by Sara Wear from the Warwickshire Museum Service. She will be focussing on some of the items on display, explaining where they were found and their significance. No pre-booking required.
Roman Festival 2024
What’s Inside
The Museum collections focus on Roman Britain and there are pottery, coins, jewellery, a sample excavation, maps, other artefacts and a range of hands-on activities for families to explore.
The lack of damage to the Alcester Samian Ware collection (as illustrated above) is unusual. It is possible that a trader’s stock of bowls was buried during a fire or other catastrophic event.
Schools
Teachers – bring your class on a rewarding school visit
School visits for the Spring & Summer Terms 2025: Bookings are now being taken for the first half of 2025. Because sessions are only available on a Tuesday they tend to get booked quite quickly – so early booking is advised. There are now no sessions available for the remainder of 2024.
Learn more about the new School visits here.
Roman Alcester offers hands-on visits linked to the National Curriculum Key Stage 2. Other age groups can be accommodated by special arrangement.
Children can make use of all the museum’s facilities to bring Roman Britain alive. They can handle pottery and other artefacts and during the afternoon dress in Roman armour for a photo opportunity. We can also show a fun video of an imaginary day in the life of Roman Alcester.
Contact: alcesterheritage@gmail.com
Visiting
Admission to Roman Alcester is free!
Find us at Globe House, Priory Road, Alcester, B49 5DZ
The Museum is open as follows:
Monday & Wednesday to Friday 9.30 to 17.00 Saturday 9.30 to 15.30 Sunday & Tuesday closed all day
Christmas/ New Year: The Museum will be closed when the Library is closed, as follows: Closed from 5.30pm Monday 23rd December to 10am Saturday 28th December 2024 & from 5.30pm Monday 30th December to 9.30am Thursday 2nd January 2025 9.30am.
Our volunteers are at the Museum to meet and greet visitors between 10.30 and 15.30 on Mondays and Wednesday to Saturday but they will take a brief break during January 2025.
The museum is fully accessible and has two disabled persons’ parking spaces accessed from Seggs Lane.
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