Look, touch, smell and hear the past
These are all things you can do at the National Archaeology Day event at Roman Alcester Museum on Saturday 14 July.
Archaeology experts will be on hand to identify your own back garden finds and to give an insight into the many Roman exhibits on show.
The entertaining group ‘History off the Page’ will also reveal how the Romans lit their homes - before electricity of course - and how they wrote their shopping lists without paper.
Celebrating the National Archaeology Week (14 -22 July) with this event the museum and all activities are free and running from 10am to 4pm. Angie Bolton, Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be available between 11.30 and 2pm.
Craft activities will go on all day with History off the Page demonstrations at 12pm and 2:30pm.
More summer activities
Places on the museum’s first Summer School for budding junior history buffs is filling up fast with just a few more places available for 8 -14 years olds. The 3 morning workshops scheduled for Tuesday 24 July to Thursday 26 will be packed with activities from mosaic making to carrying out local archaeology surveys, from
dressing like a Roman to exploring gruesome Roman medicines.
More information 01789 762216, email romanalcesterevents@warwickshire.gov.uk
or pop into the museum when it is open Thursdays to Saturdays, 10am to 4pm and Sundays 2pm -5pm