Corinium Museum

Location within Gloucestershire
Established	1938
Location	Cirencester
Collection size	over 60,000 objects
Director	Emma Stuart
Website	http://www.coriniummuseum.org

The Corinium Museum, in the Cotswold town of Cirencester in England, has a large collection of objects found in and around the locality. The bulk of the exhibits are from the Roman town of Corinium Dobunnorum,^[1] but the museum includes material from across the Cotswold District as early as the Neolithic and all the way up to Victorian times.^[2]

The original museum in the town was funded and opened by the Bathurst family and opened in 1850. This building still exists on Tetbury road today. When the Cripps and Bathurst private family collections were amalgamated, a new museum was constructed in the grounds of Abberley House. The museum opened in 1938. It was then gifted to Cotswold District Council and re-opened on 26 November 1974 by the Duke of Gloucester,^[3] Further refurbishments took place as part of the 'Corinium Project' in 2002-2004 following a successful Heritage Lottery grant and other funding. The early galleries were redeveloped as a capital project called 'Stone Age to Corinium' in 2018- 2020, following another successful National Lottery Heritage Fund grant with generous donations and other grant funding. The museum has a collection of 2nd to 4th-century Roman mosaic floors and sculptural carvings, as well extensive displays of Roman objects, large and small.

Throughout the museum, there are displays covering prehistory across the Cotswolds, the Iron Age including objects from the Iron Age hillfort at Bagendon, an Anglo-Saxon gallery which largely profiles the rich objects unearthed at the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Butler's Field in Lechlade. The medieval gallery explores Cirencester's lost medieval Abbey with the rise of the wool trade featuring prominently in later galleries.^[3]

Part of the current museum building, which was built in the mid-18th century, was previously a house called Abberley House. It is a Grade II listed building^[4]

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