Tewkesbury Borough Museum

Tewkesbury Museum is a small community museum dedicated to the social history and heritage of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England.The museum is housed in a 17th-century half-timbered building at 64 and 64a Barton Street in property which was given to the Borough of Tewkesbury in 1956 on the express condition that it be used as a museum; but the museum did not open until 1962, after all of the previous tenants of the building had left.The building is Grade II* listed by English Heritage.An active society of Friends of Tewkesbury Museum supports the work of the museum.ExhibitsExhibits include: Early Roman artefacts discovered when the Roses Theatre was built, including a Roman skeletonA diorama of the Battle of TewkesburyExhibits about the Tewkesbury mop fairA 1950s vintage model funfairMaterial about the important local stocking knitting industryAn exhibit about Healings Flour MillPieces relating to the Antarctic explorer Raymond Priestley, from Bredon's Norton In 2010 excerpts from the diary of the British soldier Lieutenant Mark Evison of the Welsh Guards, who died after being wounded in Afghanistan in 2009, were displayed at the museum alongside letters from previous generations of soldiers.