Free weekend gallery talk led by St Albans Tour Guides about the Roman mosaics at Verulamium Museum.
Verulamium Museum is running a themed tour on the Roman mosaics it holds, led by St Albans Tour Guides on Saturday 8 November at 2:30pm. It's one of two dates for this particular tour, with the other falling on Sunday 13 December, also at 2:30pm.
The museum is built on the site of one of the largest Roman cities in the country, and it's home to some of the finest mosaics to be found outside the Mediterranean. This tour focuses on them, with the guides taking you through the collection and talking you around the pieces. It's part of a wider programme of free gallery talks the museum runs every weekend at 2:30pm in partnership with St Albans Tour Guides, with the subjects rotating from mosaics and grand designs to domestic life, food and drink, gods and goddesses, death and burial, the Iron Age and trading. If the mosaics aren't your thing, there's usually something else on the following weekend.
Beyond the galleries, Verulamium Park preserves the remains of the Roman town itself, including the Roman Hypocaust, the Roman Theatre and the city walls, and it holds a Green Heritage Site Accreditation from Historic England. The museum was a Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice winner in 2024, which put it in the top 10% of sites reviewed worldwide. The guides also run a range of walking tours across the city, from Coaching Inns and Fishpool Street to Verulamium's ghosts and ghouls.
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The tours are included with entry to the museum, so you just pay your usual admission and you're set. Both dates start at 2:30pm, so if you're planning to see the rest of the galleries too, it's worth leaving yourself some time on either side.
