Weekend guided talk by St Albans Tour Guides on Roman food and drink at Verulamium Museum.
Verulamium Museum is hosting a talk on Roman food and drink on Sunday 22 November, led by the St Albans Tour Guides. It's part of the museum's gallery talk series, which runs every weekend at 2:30pm and rotates through different Roman subjects. This particular session focuses on what people ate and drank in the town, so it's a good one to pick if you're more interested in the domestic side of Roman life than the politics or the wars.
Verulamium bills itself as the museum of everyday life in Roman Britain, and it sits on the site of one of the largest Roman cities in the country. Inside, you'll find some of the finest mosaics outside the Mediterranean, which are a good starting point for imagining the town as it once was. The gallery talks rotate through a few different themes — food and drink, death and burial, trading in the Empire, and mosaics — and they're designed to bring the town back to life, one topic at a time.
If you've got a bit more time on your hands, there's plenty to see around the museum too. You can walk out into Verulamium Park to see the remains of the Roman town, visit the Roman Hypocaust, the Roman Theatre, and the Roman city walls. For younger visitors, there are hands-on discovery areas, free activity sheets for children, and dressing-up clothes on weekends and school holidays. The museum was a Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice winner in 2024.
Every week we pick 🏆 the 5 best 🏆 things to do in St Albans and send them to your inbox. Just one weekly email, no spam.
By submitting your email, you accept our Privacy Policy
The talk starts at 2:30pm on Sunday 22 November, and it's included with museum admission. Since the gallery talks run every weekend, you can come back and catch the other subjects — death and burial, trading in the Empire, and mosaics — on different dates.
