The Folk of Gloucester

The museum in 2010

The Folk of Gloucester is a museum which is housed in two of the oldest buildings in the city of Gloucester, a Tudor merchant's house and a 17th-century town house. The museum, at 99–103 Westgate Street, is devoted to the social history of Gloucestershire.

Bishop Hooper is said to have lodged in the buildings now occupied by the museum the night before he was burned at the stake in front of St Mary de Lode Church in 1555.[1]

The Museum was called Gloucester Folk Museum before rebranding itself in 2016.[2] and then became Gloucester Life until it rebranded itself again in 2019.[3]

## Exhibits

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Exhibits include:

* Local crafts
* Items relating to the River Severn fisheries
* Historic costumes
* A reconstructed Victorian classroom
* A reconstruction of the pin factory that once operated on the premises
* Displays relating to domestic life over the last 500 years

## Selected publications

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* Taylor. Guide to the Collection of Bygone Agricultural Instruments. 1950.
* Gloucester Folk Museum: A Guide to the Collections. 1963. (New edition, Chris Morris, 1986.)
* Morris, Christopher I. Dairy Farming in Gloucestershire. 1983.

## See also

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* The Museum of Gloucester
* List of museums in Gloucestershire

## References

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1. ^ Gloucester Folk Museum. Archived 17 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine livinggloucester.co.uk Retrieved 9 September 2011.
2. ^ Moore, Shaun. "Name change for Gloucester museums". Gloucester News Centre. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
3. ^ "New owners, new name and new purpose - why the future of this historic Gloucester museum just got a lot more optimistic". Gloucestershire Live. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2020.

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## External links

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* Official website

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