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Tewkesbury Museum is a small community museum dedicated to the social history and heritage of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The museum is housed in a 17th-century half-timbered building at 64 and 64a Barton Street in property which was given to the Borough of Tewkesbury in 1956 on the express condition that it be used as a museum; but the museum did not open until 1962, after all of the previous tenants of the building had left.〔(Tewkesbury Museum ). Retrieved 16 September 2011.〕 The building is Grade II * listed by English Heritage.〔(TEWKESBURY MUSEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS. ) English Heritage, 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2011.〕 An active society of Friends of Tewkesbury Museum supports the work of the museum. == Exhibits == Exhibits include: *Early Roman artefacts discovered when the Roses Theatre was built, including a Roman skeleton *A diorama of the Battle of Tewkesbury〔"Battle of Tewkesbury: Museum Diorama" by Geoffrey Wheeler in ''Airfix Magazine'' Vol. 13, No. 8, April 1972. Description of the construction of the scale model.〕 *Exhibits about the Tewkesbury mop fair *A 1950s vintage model funfair *Material about the important local stocking knitting industry *An exhibit about Healings Flour Mill *Pieces relating to the Antarctic explorer Raymond Priestley, from Bredon's Norton〔(Museum's artefacts suffering from cold. ) thisisdorset.co.uk 11 November 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2011.〕 In 2010 excerpts from the diary of the British soldier Lieutenant Mark Evison of the Welsh Guards, who died after being wounded in Afghanistan in 2009, were displayed at the museum alongside letters from previous generations of soldiers.〔("Museum to display war victim's diary" ). thisisgloucestershire.co.uk. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tewkesbury Borough Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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