Gloucester Folk Museum

History

The museum is one of the oldest-established museum and is housed in two of the oldest buildings in Gloucester, a Tudor's merchant's house and a 17th-century town house. The museum is dedicated to the social history of Gloucestershire.

It is said in 1955, that Bishop Hooper stayed in the building the night before he was burned at the stake in front of Saint Mary de Lode Church.

In 2015 the museum was renamed the Gloucester Folk Museum, it was previously known as the Gloucester Life Museum.

The museum offers various exhibits: local craft, items relating to the Rover Severn fisheries, historic costumes, a reconstructed victorian classroom, a reconstruction of the pin factory that once operated on the premises and displays relating to domestic life over the last 500 years.

In addition to the exhibits there are also plenty of hands-on activities, events, demonstrations, children's holiday activities, and role play sessions. These are hosted throughout the year so there is always something interesting going on for everyone, of all ages, to get involved either inside the museum or in the cottage garden and courtyard area.