The museum in 2010
The Folk of Gloucester is a museum which is housed in two of the oldest buildings in the
city of Gloucester , a Tudor merchant's house and a 17th-century
town house . The museum, at 99–103
Westgate Street , is devoted to the
social history of
Gloucestershire .
Bishop Hooper is said to have lodged in the buildings now occupied by the museum the night before he was burned at the stake in front of
St Mary de Lode Church in 1555.
[1]
The Museum was called Gloucester Folk Museum before rebranding itself in 2016.
[2] and then became Gloucester Life until it rebranded itself again in 2019.
[3]
Exhibits
Exhibits include:
Local crafts
Items relating to the
River Severn fisheries
Historic costumes
A reconstructed Victorian classroom
A reconstruction of the pin factory that once operated on the premises
Displays relating to domestic life over the last 500 years
Selected publications
Taylor. Guide to the Collection of Bygone Agricultural Instruments . 1950.
Gloucester Folk Museum: A Guide to the Collections . 1963. (New edition, Chris Morris, 1986.)
Morris, Christopher I. Dairy Farming in Gloucestershire . 1983.
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