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MuseumsSite Name: Wrexham County Borough Museum
Country: Wales
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County: Wrexham Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Wrexham
Map Ref: SJ3318950455
Latitude: 53.047166N  Longitude: 2.998061W
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Wrexham County Borough Museum
Wrexham County Borough Museum submitted by Creative Commons : Front elevation of the newly refurbished museum showing the area of the new Cafe, and entrance, which is reopened in February 2011. Copyright Geoff Evans and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Wrexham. Centrally located on Regent Street, the Museum is an essential visit for anyone wanting to learn more about their local heritage. The breadth of our Museum collections reflect the unique contribution that the people of Wrexham County Borough have made to the heritage of Wales, from Prehistory to the 21st century.

There’s plenty to see in your new museum:
A new family friendly gallery offering you the chance to see the museum collections, enjoy the stories they tell and watch the area’s heritage brought to life on film
A new gallery to showcase national collections from around Wales
A glazed extension providing space for a reception area, museum shop and the stylish new museum café

Follow your nose through the streets of Victorian Wrexham
Listen to the news of Brymbo Man’s discovery before meeting him face to face
Admire the skill of Bronze Age smiths who made the Rossett Hoard

More details on their Web Site.

Address: Regent Street, Wrexham, LL11 1RB
Phone: 01978 317970

Note: The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC New exhibition opens, see comment.
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Re: Wrexham County Borough Museum by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 09 July 2013
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The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC by Andy B on Thursday, 09 October 2008
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The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC
New exhibition opens at Wrexham County Borough Museum

Wrexham County Borough Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales have joined forces again to create The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC – a new exhibition exploring the prehistoric heritage of Wales.

It was our Stone Age ancestors who created Wales’ first monuments: a series of giant burial chambers. Six thousand years later these truly ancient monuments still stand in a much changed landscape. But who were the people who built these great tombs? What were their lives like? Why did they go to all this effort? These are the questions this exhibition explores and asks you to ponder.

The Tomb Builders exhibition has been created by the Department of Archaeology & Numismatics at the National Museum Cardiff and Wrexham County Borough Museum. Based on an award winning book by Dr Steve Burrow, it features collections that have never before been displayed in north Wales. The Tomb Builders exhibition divides into two parts – life and death, with the two being linked by an audio-visual showing the Midsummer solstice at Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic burial chamber on Anglesey.

Elsewhere in the exhibition you’ll get the chance to see how our Neolithic ancestors dressed thanks to a reproduction costume based on the Ice Man found in the South Tyrol in northern Italy.

The exhibition is on show until December 15th 2008. Admission is free.
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Made in Africa - A British Museum Touring Exhibition, October 15th – December 15th by coldrum on Wednesday, 10 October 2007
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‘Made in Africa’ features the oldest artefacts in the British Museum’s collections: the palaeolithic tools found in the Oldovai Gorge, Tanzania. At 1.8 million years old – they are probably the oldest man-made objects in the world and their discovery helped change scientific thinking about human evolution! See them in this touring exhibition’s only appearance in Wales.

Look out for family events and evening talks accompanying this exhibition.

http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/events.htm
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Opening of Re-Creations Exhibition featuring the Mold Cape by Andy B on Monday, 26 September 2005
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Today for the first time in almost 170 years, the Mold cape will be on public display in North Wales. The cape was found in 1833 lying in an early Bronze Age burial mound and was purchased by the British Museum three years later. The cape is one of the Museum’s top ten treasures and is the largest example of decorated prehistoric gold-work ever found in Europe. Neil MacGregor Director of the British Museum commented "The British Museum is delighted to be loaning the Mold gold cape to Wales."

The cape forms the centrepiece of the exhibition Re-Creations: Visualizing Our Past which will be shown at Wrexham County Borough Museum between September 26th and December 17th. The exhibition was created by the Department of Archaeology & Numismatics at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (NMGW) and looks at how the past can be brought to life through reconstruction. Dr Mark Redknap of NMGW, originator of the exhibition, said: ‘The excitement of recreating our past is evident in this exhibition through the collaboration of archaeologists, artists, craftsmen, historians and scientists’.

The exhibition will be opened today by Alun Pugh, Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport who said: "The Mold cape is a unique treasure and one of the finest examples of Bronze Age gold work in existence anywhere in the world. With this extraordinary piece back in North Wales for the first time for 170 years, I am sure there will be no shortage of visitors who want to see this fascinating piece of Wales’ prehistoric past. I am very proud that the Assembly Government has been able to help bring this remarkable treasure back to the area it was found".

More, with pictures at http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/council/news/recreations.htm
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