Shrewsbury Museum celebrates heritage

In celebration of Heritage Open Days, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery are offering free entry to visitors.

The Museum will allow visitors to experience 650 million years of history to life on Sunday 9th September.

Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery will also offer free guided tours, between 12-3pm, before allowing guests to explore the collections more intimately than ever before.

Visitors will come face-to-face with some of the best preserved mammoth bones in the UK, take in one of the UK's finest fossil collections, experience the Roman Gallery and relive the voyage in the latest special exhibition, Titanic: Honour and Glory.

They will also be given the opportunity to explore millions of years of history through a though a thousand remarkable objects in the extraordinary set of buildings that house Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery.

Heritage Open Days is the largest heritage festival in the country; in 2015, over 4,800 events welcomed around three million visitors across England.

The Open Day operates as part of the National Trust with funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery.