Day-time in Warwick
Museums and galleries
Warwick has a good selection of museums to explore.
St John’s Museum (www.warwickshire.gov.uk/museum) has a kitchen full of drawers to open and cupboards to explore, a Discovery Room for the under 5's and a Victorian school room. Here you can really experience how people lived in the past. The displays are housed in a historic 17th century house with gardens, nearby car park and a grassy picnic area.
Located above St John’s Museum, on the first floor, is the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum which tells the story of the 6th Foot (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) from its raising in 1674 to the Fusilier of the present day. Greeted on arrival by a soldier of 1744 the story of the "Warwickshire Lads", be they Private or Field Marshal, is revealed through an exciting mixture of real objects, uniforms, weapons, equipment, medals, pictures, documents and curios.
The Market Hall Museum (www.warwickshire.gov.uk/museum) houses displays of local archaeology, natural history and geology. A huge brown bear will be the first to greet you in the Museum entrance, and there are wilder beasts to follow. Track the early history of Warwickshire and find the places you know on the Sheldon tapestry map. Also look out for ancient jewellery, fantastic fossils, bees and bugs.