Muesums with Roman objects or displays
Ashmolean Museum
The University museum has a large collection of coins, antiquities
and casts.
Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH
T: +44 (0) 1865 278000
F: +44 (0) 1865 278018
W: Ashmolean Museum
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
The Museum has a permanent gallery displaying evidence of the
Romans in the South West of Britain.
T: +44 (0)117 922 3571
W: Bristol Museum and Art
Gallery
The British Museum
The Museum has comprehensive Roman collections and galleries.
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
T: +44 (0)20 7323 8000
E: information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
W: British Museum
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
The Museum holds collections from the Roman sites of Great
Chesterford, Risingham, Ickleton, Godmanchester and Water
Newton.
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ
T: +44 (0)1223 333516
F: +44 (0)1223
333517
W: Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology
Roman Museum, Canterbury
A museum with finds and mosaics from a Roman house.
Longmarket, Butchery Lane, Canterbury, Kent
T: +44 (0)1227 785575
F: +44 (0)1227 455047
W: Roman Museum,
Canterbury
National Museum Wales
The displays include military, religious and agricultural Roman
finds.
Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
T: +44 (0)29 2039 7951
F: +44 (0)29 2037
3219
W: National Museum Wales
Chichester District Museum
The Museum holds collections from Roman sites in the area.
29 Little London, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PB
T: +44 (0)1243 784683
E: districtmuseum@chichester.gov.uk
W: Chichester District
Museum
Clifton Park Museum
The Museum has collections relating to Templeborough Roman
Fort.
Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2AA
T: +44 (0)1709 823635
F: +44 (0)1709 823631
E: cliftonparkmuseum@rotherham.gov.uk
W: Clifton
Park Museum
Colchester Castle Museum
The Castle stands on the foundations of the Roman Temple of
Claudius built in Roman Britain’s capital city,
Camulodunum. The Roman
displays include Boudicca’s revolt.
T: +44 (0)1206 282939
F: +44 (0)1206
282925
W: Colchester
Castle Museum
Corinium Museum
The Museum is currently undergoing a major redevelopment and is due
to open again in Autumn 2003. It displays the history of Roman
Cirencester with reconstructions of Roman rooms and Roman military
life.
Park Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2BX
T: +44 (0)1285 655611
F: +44 (0)1285
643286
W: Corinium
Museum
Grosvenor Museum
The Museum features displays and artefacts relating to Roman
Chester.
27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD
T: +44 (0)1244 402008
F: +44 (0)1244 347587
W: Grosvenor Museum
The Hunterian Museum
The displays at Scotland’s oldest public museum include ‘Roman
Scotland’.
The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
T: +44 (0)141 330 4221
F: +44 (0)141 330 3617
E: hunter@museum.gla.ac.uk
W: The Hunterian Museum
Leeds Museum Resource Centre
The Centre (open by appointment) provides access to the
archaeological collections held by Leeds Museums and
Galleries.
Moorfield Road Industrial Estate, Moorfield Road, Yeadon, Leeds,
West Yorkshire, LS19 7BN
T: +44 (0)113 214 6526
F: +44 (0)113 214 6539
Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery
The Museum’s collections include Roman pottery and jewellery.
Broadway, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 3PF
T: +44 (0)1462 685647
F: +44 (0)1462 481879
W: Letchworth
Museum
Moyse’s Hall Museum
The Museum houses archaeological collections relating to this Roman
outpost.
Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1DX
T: +44 (0)1284 706183
F: +44 (0)1284 765373
E: moyses.hall@stedsbc.gov.uk
W: Moyse’s
Hall Museum
Museum of London
The Museum tells the story of the history of London including a
permanent exhibition on Roman London.
London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN
T: +44 (0)20 7600 3699
F: +44 (0)20 7600 105
E: info@museumoflondon.org.uk
W: Museum of London
Museum of Oxford
The Museum presents the story of Oxford with displays including a
preserved Roman pottery kiln.
St Aldates, Oxford
T: +44 (0)1865 252761
E: museum@oxford.gov.uk
W: Museum of Oxford
Museum of Antiquities
The Museum has exhibitions about Hadrian’s Wall with models and
reconstructions.
University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
T: +44 (0)191 222 7849
F: +44 (0)191 222 8561
E: m.o.antiquities@ncl.ac.uk
W: Museum of Antiquities
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
The Museum holds the Roman finds including mosaics from nearby
Caerwent (Venta Silurum).
John Frost Square, Newport, Gwent, NP9 1HZ
T: +44 (0)1633 840064
F: +44 (0)1633 222615
W: Newport
Museum
North Lincolnshire Museum
The Museum holds Roman collections relating to the area.
Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 7BD
T: +44 (0)1724 843533
W: North
Lincolnshire Museum
Museum of Reading
The Museum’s displays includes finds from Roman Silchester.
The Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1
1QH
T: +44 (0)118 939 9800
F: +44 (0)118 939 9881
E: mail@readingmuseum.org
W: Museum of Reading
Ribchester Roman Museum
The Museum has collections relating to the Lancashire area in Roman
times.
Riverside, Ribchester, Preston, Lancashire, PR3 3XS
T: +44 (0)1254 878261
W: Ribchester Roman Museum
Senhouse Roman Museum
The Museum displays a large group of military altar stones and
inscriptions.
The Battery, The Sea Brows, Maryport, Cumbria, CA15
6JD
T: +44 (0)1900 816168
E: senhousemuseum@aol.com
W: Senhouse Roman Museum
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
The Roman collections at the Museum relate to Carlisle, military
activity at Carlisle’s forts, and the western part of Hadrian’s
Wall.
Tullie House, Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP
T: +44 (0)1228 534781
F: +44 (0)1228 810249
E: enquiries@tullie-house.co.uk
W: Tullie House Museum and Art
Gallery
Wiltshire Heritage Museum
The Museum has Roman collections from Wiltshire.
41 Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1NS
T: +44 (0)1380 727369
F: +44 (0)1380 722150
E: wanhs@wiltshireheritage.org.uk
W: Wiltshire Heritage
Museum
Yorkshire Museum
The Museum houses Roman collections from Yorkshire.
Museum Gardens, York, YO1 7FR
T: +44 (0)1904 551800
F: +44 (0)1904 551802
E: yorkshire.museum@york.gov.uk
W: Yorkshire Museum