Free drop-in session in the Museum of Gloucester's 'Hands-On History' series to handle replicas of the Birdlip Mirror with a Visitor Experience Assistant.
Museum of Gloucester is running another session of its 'Hands-On History' series on Saturday 7 November, and this time the focus is the Birdlip Mirror. It's a free drop-in from 11:00 to 12:00, so you can just pop in whenever suits you during that hour.
The format is simple: you get to handle replicas of the mirror rather than just looking at it behind glass. While you're holding it, a Visitor Experience Assistant is on hand to chat through the piece, share stories about it, and answer any questions that come up about how it was made. It's part of a wider series the museum runs to get people a bit closer to the objects in the collection.
If you're not familiar with the mirror, it's one of the museum's most famous pieces. The Birdlip Mirror is a Roman bronze mirror found in the village of Birdlip, just outside Gloucester, and it's widely regarded as one of the finest of its kind from the Roman world. It sits alongside some other heavy hitters in the archaeology collection: impressive Roman tombstones and the Gloucester Tables Set, which is the oldest complete backgammon set in the world. The museum itself is housed in a fine Victorian building and holds more than 750,000 objects that trace the city's story from its Roman origins through the Dark Ages and the Medieval period. On the ground floor, you'll find a Roman kitchen playhouse, a medieval street, and a section of the original Roman wall.
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It's a free drop-in session, though a voluntary donation of £1 is appreciated. You'll find it at the Museum of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, GL1 1HP, on Saturday 7 November from 11:00 to 12:00.
