Canterbury Roman Museum

Canterbury Roman Museum
Longmarket
Butchery Lane
Canterbury
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1227 785 575
Email: museums@canterbury.gov.uk

Open all year Monday to Saturday 10.00 to 16.00. Closed Good Friday, Christmas and New Year's Day. 
Plus from June until end September, also open Sundays 13.30 to 16.00

Admission charges from 1 April 2009 until 31 March 2010
Adults £3.10, Concessions £2.10, Family £8.00 (2 adults and up to 3 children) Groups of 10+: 10% discount, Teachers free.

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Canterbury Roman Museum

The Roman Museum is underground at the level of the Roman town. It's an exciting mix of excavated real objects: authentic reconstructions; and preserved remains of a Roman town house with its famous mosaics.

Reconstructions include a Roman market place, with a shoe maker, fabric seller and fruit and vegetable stall. There is also part of a house with its kitchen set out in authentic detail.

A skilful computer program brings together pictures of the excavations on the site, and from the archaeologists' detail it generates reconstruction images of what the great house found here was like in Roman times.

There is also a test your skills touch screen computer game on Roman technology; and at the end of the museum is the acclaimed "touch the past" area where the visitor can handle real Roman artefacts and follow the archaeologist's skills of deduction.

The impressive pillared entrance is in Butchery Lane and very close to the Cathedral.

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