Birmingham
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
The Archaeology Collection contains around 2000 objects from European, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian cultures. Serving as both a teaching and research collection, it provides University students with a distinctive opportunity to interact with ancient objects within a learning environment.
The Museum is not open to members of the public, but small school groups can organise a visit. If you would like to learn more about this please email bham.classicsfor
You can also listen to the podcast 'Stories from Objects', in which specialists and students from the department discuss a variety of objects,
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts houses a leading art gallery and concert hall within its Grade-1 listed building, on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus.
The museum house one of the most impressive collections of Roman, Byzantine, Sasanian, medieval Islamic, and medieval and modern Hungarian coins in the world, with around 16,000 objects in its collection.
Exhibition: Women in Power: Coins from the Barber Collection.
22 June 2024 – 26 January 2025
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The University of Birmingham Archaeology Collection
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
The Ancient Civilisations features items from life in ancient Cyprus, Egypt, Greece and Rome, dating from the 5th millennium BC to the 5th century AD.
The West Midlands History and Archaeology collection dates from Prehistory to Post-Medieval periods with material from 61 sites in the West Midlands area. It includes unique finds and in many cases excavation records. Those sites are of a huge range, from fortifications to urban sites, with Mesolithic period flint tools to Roman tiles and Medieval metalwork.
Visit the numismatics collection to see the Greek, Roman and Byzantine collection.
Dudley and Herefordshire
Dudley Museum at the Archives
Herefordshire Museum Resource & Learning Centre
Herefordshire Museum Resource & Learning Centre
This modern museum tells the story of Dudley (and the wider Black Country) through time.
Their 'Invaders and Settlers' gallery displays artefacts and replicas from AD43, and the arrival of Romans into Britain, through to the medieval times when the earliest rumblings of the Industrial Revolution began
Herefordshire Museum Resource & Learning Centre
Herefordshire Museum Resource & Learning Centre
Herefordshire Museum Resource & Learning Centre
This exciting collection of art, archaeology, costumes, social history and natural science collections can be explored through behind the scenes tours, inspiring education sessions and independent study.
Some of the Museum’s extensive collections are available to search online.
Shropshire
Wroxeter Roman City
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Wroxeter Roman City has English Heritage’s largest site collection, some of which can be seen at its onsite museum. Tens of thousands of objects, derived from excavations, provide strong evidence about the lives and beliefs of Wroxeter’s civilian inhabitants during the 2nd to 4th century AD.
Take a closer look at a selection of these objects, two of which you can also view in 3D.
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Explore millions of years of history through over one thousand remarkable objects!
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Find out what it was like to hunt a mammoth, live like a Tudor, think like a scientist and explore like an archaeologist!
Explore the curriculum linked workshops here.
Prices range from £125 – £225 with a free pre-visit for teachers.
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Shropshire Museums Collections Centre
Whitchurch Heritage Centre has a collection of
more than 5,000 items relating to the town and its hinterland. The information has been entered into collection management software which can now be searched by the general public on this website.
The old Whitchurch Museum had many examples of local archaeology in their collection. A number of these items have been loaned back from Shropshire Museum Service and are on display in the Archaeology cabinet. These artefacts include a Samian ware pottery bowl found in Yardington, a mirror found in Sedgeford and a burial urn found in Edgeley Road.
Staffordshire
Wall Site Museum
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Wall Site Museum is just over 100 years old. The Roman baths building and mansio were first excavated in 1912-14, and a site museum was quickly established nearby to house and display the finds. Click here to explore some of the items in their virtual collection.
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The museum displays fine and decorative arts, costume, local history, archaeology and natural history collections as well as the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire ceramics. It is also home to the fascinating Staffordshire Hoard and the outstanding Spitfire Gallery.
Visit the archaeology gallery to learn more about Staffordshire’s rich and diverse archaeological heritage from prehistoric technologies to daily life in a Roman household, medieval monasticism to the early potters of Burslem.
Apedale Heritage Centre
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Visit to see their display covering the Roman Activity at Chesterton - including stones from a local Roman building, reproductions of Roman armour, and more!
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Warwickshire
Market Hall Museum
Market Hall Museum is located in the Market Hall, a 17th-century landmark in the heart of Warwick. Refurbished in 2017 with the help of a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the museum tells the story of Warwickshire, and how the shifting natural, built and human landscapes have shaped the county to the present day.
It includes two Warwickshire Roman silver coin hoards!
The Roman Alcester Museum
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.
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum includes the Archaeology Gallery, the showcase for artefacts from the Romano-British town of Tripontium.
Explore market stalls on a street in Tripontium and discover how the Romans lived and what they ate and wore. See for yourself some of the objects they left behind - such as jewellery, coins, pottery and ironwork.
Imagine yourself as an archaeologist handling real artefacts. Discover new information and objects from recent local digs and fieldwork in the Archaeology now section. Or take yourself back in time and dress up in Roman style clothing.
Worcestershire
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
Droitwich Spa Heritage and Information Centre
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
Discover the story of Roman Worcestershire, take a 360-degree tour of Bays Meadow Roman Villa which once stood in Droitwich, and enjoy Roman-inspired craft activities!
The Museum also offers a selection of Loan boxes for various topics - see the list of boxes and their prices here.
Malvern Museum of Local History
Droitwich Spa Heritage and Information Centre
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
The museum has a very small collection of items from Prehistoric and Roman periods - the museum displays pottery from the Roman kiln site at Great Buckman’s farm in Malvern Link. It also has a number of small base metal coins (one found locally), as well as larger replica coins.
Droitwich Spa Heritage and Information Centre
Droitwich Spa Heritage and Information Centre
Droitwich Spa Heritage and Information Centre
The permanent exhibit shows the fascinating story of the town from pre-Roman times to modern day. Excavations in the town have revealed much about early Droitwich and its salt industry; many of these remains are in excellent condition. See archaeological finds from town excavations, including; fragments of Roman pottery, Roman coins, the remains of half a Roman Barrel used for brine storage and even human remains.Reconstructed faces from Roman skulls reveal some incredible facts about their lifestyles and their appearance.