Museum of Ghoulster: Time Travellers Tales

Museum of Ghoulster: Time Travellers Tales runs at the Museum of Gloucester on Saturday 31 October, from 11:00 to 12:00. It's a Halloween storytelling session for children aged 4 to 11, and it's part of the museum's wider family programme and Halloween events.

The session is built around interactive storytelling, so the kids aren't just sitting and listening — they're encouraged to get involved. Dressing up is part of the fun too, so if your little ones have a costume they've been waiting to wear, this is a good place to bring it out. It's a single hour, which is usually just about the right length for that age group before they start to fidget.

The venue is the Museum of Gloucester on Brunswick Road, GL1 1HP, and this particular session is held in Wheatstone Hall. If you're not familiar with the place, it's a Victorian building that tells the story of the city's origins as a Roman settlement and its development through the Dark Ages and the Medieval period. The collection holds more than 750,000 objects, with art by Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Thomas Dibdin. On the ground floor, you'll find a Roman kitchen playhouse, a medieval street and part of the original Roman wall. The archaeology collection holds the world-famous Birdlip Mirror, impressive Roman tombstones and the Gloucester Tables Set, the oldest complete backgammon set in the world. Nearby, the Eastgate Viewing Chamber shows Roman and medieval gate-towers and a moat in an underground exhibition chamber.

It's £2.50 per child aged 4 to 11, and accompanying adults go free, so it's an easy one to drop into on a Saturday morning. The session runs from 11:00 to 12:00 on 31 October in Wheatstone Hall.