Opening hours

Mon - Sat: 10am - 4:45pm
Closed: Sundays and Bank Holidays

Free Entry

There may be a charge for special exhibitions. Please call to confirm.

The collections include mainly prehistoric artefacts from other parts of Britain and Europe. Notable are the Ropley gold armilla from Winchester and the Westminster bronze sword, both dating to the Late Bronze Age.

The Museum also possesses significant collections of Egyptian, Greek, continental Roman and Byzantine artefacts. The collection houses the 25th Dynasty mummy, Ast Tayef Nakht, who was a priest from the Temple of Al Karnack. Some highlights of the collection are red-figure ware from Apulia in Italy when it was a Greek colony, Roman glass vessels from Tiberias in Palestine and Coptic textiles. These collections fall conventionally within the archaeological category. Other artefacts from Asia and the Far East that date from early periods, such as the Neolithic stone tools from India are for convenience included with later material in the World Cultures and Applied Art collections.