City Museum and Art Gallery

Beneath the great vaulted ceiling in the upper room of Gloucester's most imposing civic building stand chiming grandfather clocks, Queen Anne furniture, fine china, glass and silver from a lost age of elegance. A modern extension houses the City's art collection - views of the City through the centuries, Turners under velvet, 20^th century sculpture - as well as temporary exhibitions to excite and inspire.

Downstairs reconstructed dinosaurs rub horny shoulders with stuffed foxes, live bees come and go from a see-through hive. There's a mediaeval board game - mysteriously smashed but still playable, a mysterious Celtic mirror, altars, jewellery tools and armour which used to belong to the people who lived in the city when it was Glevum and a big hole in the floor so you can see the real Roman city wall on which the building stands.