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MuseumsSite Name: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.954 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Shropshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Shrewsbury
Map Ref: SJ488126  Landranger Map Number: 126
Latitude: 52.708630N  Longitude: 2.759251W
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Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by dodomad : A 3,000-year-old Bronze Age gold pendant goes on public display after it was bought by the British Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery sits proudly in the Music Hall in the town square and is the county’s flagship museum and art gallery. Entry is now free! The museum has a particularly good Roman Gallery, with finds from Wroxeter, and a short film discussing some of the finds.

Closed on Mondays

http://www.shrewsburymuseum.org.uk/

The text below refers to the Museum's previous location and collections on display.
It boasts a small but captivating prehistory collection dating back to 12,000 BC; microliths, neolithic axe heads from Graig Lwyd (North Wales), Corndon Hill (Shropshire, near Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle) and Langdale Pike (Cumbria); Bronze Age metalwork and 'primitive log boats' also feature. The museum also has an astonishingly large collection of artefacts from nearby Wroxeter / Viroconium, which was one of the largest Roman / Romano-British cities in the country, in its time.On my visit, I was given the opportunity to handle an intact Mortarium, as well as real samian ware, and tessarae.For the children, there is also dressing up in prehistoric style garb, and for all the family, the opportunity to dress in a range of mediaeval styles.I really felt this was a museum trying to engage and inspire its visitors; we spent a happy, interested 2 hours here.

Note: Spectacular Bronze Age sun pendant heads to Shrewsbury Museum until December 2021, more in the comments on our page.
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Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by w650marion : Shrewsbury museum is now in The Music Hall, The Square, SY1 1LH. Entry in 2019 is £4.50 The museum has a particularly good Roman Gallery, with finds from Wroxeter, and a short film discussing some of the finds. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett : Former Location of Shrewsbury Museum SJ488126 It boasts a small but captivating prehistory collection dating back to 12,000 BC; microliths, neolithic axe heads from Graig Lwyd (North Wales), Corndon Hill (Shropshire, near Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle) and Langdale Pike (Cumbria); Bronze Age metalwork and 'primitive log boats' also feature. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett : Former Location of Shrewsbury Museum Grid Reference: SJ488126 A 17th century timber framed mansion and warehouse joined together, and now a museum within the heart of Shrewsbury. It boasts a small but captivating prehistory collection dating back to 12,000 BC; microliths, neolithic axe heads from Graig Lwyd (North Wales), Corndon Hill (Shropshire, near Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle) a... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Spectacular Bronze Age sun pendant heads to Shrewsbury Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 October 2021
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DavidHoyle writes: The pendant and other similar items will be on display until 12 December 2021 as a British Museum Spotlight Loan “Gathering light: A Bronze Age golden sun”. More details below:

Spectacular Bronze Age sun pendant heads to Shrewsbury Museum
http://museumcrush.org/spectacular-bronze-age-sun-pendant-heads-to-shrewsbury-museum/

Shropshire Bronze Age pendant bought by British Museum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-51751357

Stunning 3,000-year-old gold pendant to go on public display for first time
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/museums/museums-events/view-the-3000-year-old-sun-pendant/
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Re: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery by rogerkread on Tuesday, 16 October 2018
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Shrewsbury Museum is now located in the former Music Hall building in The Square, opposite the old Market Hall, SY1 1LH. Rowley House closed as the host building for the museum in about 2013. A good museum, the Roman section particularly well done. Maybe less than one would have hoped for on the type of artefacts etc of most interest to users of this website, but overall well worth the entrance fee.
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