Museum of Gloucester

It was extensively renovated following a large National Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and reopened on Gloucester Day, 3 September 2011.

[3] Gloucester Life is a smaller museum in Westgate Street, dealing with the social history of Gloucestershire.

The museum opened on 12 March 1860 as a private venture in three rooms at The Black Swan, provided rent-free by the poet Sydney Dobell.

[10][12] In 1977, the collection acquired a landscape of Newnham-on-Severn from Dean Hill by William Turner of Oxford with help from The Art Fund.

[13] Gloucester Regent magazine March 1987 p2-6 discusses the controversial painting of dog excrement on a silver platter.

Museum of Gloucester
A fragment from an Anglo-Saxon Cross from St. Oswald's Priory in the museum. (False colourised version on the right.)
Newnham-on-Severn from Dean Hill by William Turner , acquired for the museum in 1977 with help from The Art Fund .
John and Joan Cooke by an unknown artist. Joan Cooke founded The Crypt School after her husband's death.
An 1834 painting of a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig in the museum's art collection. Said to be the largest pig ever bred in Britain. [ 8 ]
A miniature of Jemmy Wood , the famous Gloucester Miser , from the art collection.