Skip to content

Find your joy
in Shropshire

Visit Shropshire, where adventures begin.

Win a Private Guided Tour of Shrewsbury Prison and More!

Enter now for your chance to win an unforgettable experience behind bars at Shrewsbury Prison!

Enter Competition

Whatever your joy looks like, you’ll find it here.

Nowhere quite balances rugged exploration, welcome serenity and rejuvenation quite like Shropshire. Choose your perfect escape and soak up every minute of it, right here.

Explore Shropshire

Map View

Explore Shropshire

What's happening in Shropshire?

Sun & Fire - Life and death at the dawn of history

Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.

Before the Romans came, people in Britain didn’t use writing. That means there’s a lot we don’t know about them. But they left many objects and other traces in the Shropshire landscape and by examining these closely, we can try to work out what their lives were like. Come and see how we can tell that heat was vital to them. Find out how they used fire to make beautiful and useful objects, to cook and to cremate their dead.

Explore our interactive exhibition and learn how we once celebrated the sun with huge stone circles and bright gold objects. We can’t be sure why they did some of these things. We can only guess what they thought and believed. But we do know that in lots of ways these people were like us, with bodies and senses like ours. They felt the heat of flames on their skin and the sun’s warmth on their faces. Their lives were full of sensations, sights, sounds and scents.

Step into the ancient Shropshire landscape at this new thought-provoking exhibition, and experience the sounds, scents and ancient objects up close.

Adult 18 +: £4.50 Child :Free (accompanied by paying adult ) Friends of Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery – Member Price: £3.50* National Art Pass Members: £2.25*

Book Tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/shrewsburymuseum/e-zvgbjr

Tickets also available on arrival in the museum shop

*Friends and National Art Pass Members – purchase ticket on arrival with membership proof please.

 

  • Saturday 2nd November - Wednesday 30th April
  • Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
Sat-Wed 2-30 Nov - Apr 2024 What's happening in Shropshire?

Supported by

Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 8

Stay in the loop with everything happening in Shropshire!

My Itinerary

You haven't added anything to your itinerary yet.

As you look through the listings on our site you will notice a small heart icon next to places and events.

Clicking the heart next to items you're interested in will save them all here.