Andover Museum and Museum of the Iron Age is a museum with two collections: the Andover Museum focuses on the history of the town of
Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
* Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Ando ...
, and the Museum of the Iron Age serves as a major focus for museum and educational activities surrounding archaeological work at the nearby
Danebury
Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire, England, about north-west of Winchester (). Retrieved on 23 July 2008. The site, covering , was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s. Danebury is considered a type-site for hill forts, a ...
hill fort.
It is run by
Hampshire Cultural Trust
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire is ...
.
History
The museum opened in 1986.
The museum is in a
Georgian town house built in the 1750s. The museum houses items from the
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
along with arts and crafts from the
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...
.
The BBC referred to the museum in their "''Iron Age Sites in Britain: Explore the Iron Age sites of England, Wales and Scotland''."
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The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
'' has described it as "the best explanation of Iron Age life available".
References
External links
Andover Museum and Museum of the Iron Age
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History museums in England
Museums in Hampshire