Museums- The Novium-Chichester.

The Novium Museum is somewhere I found by accident whilst trying to find the library. It lies opposite and at half past three with rain all over my glasses in I went.

The Novium is in the city of Chichester and its name comes from  "Noviomagus Reginorum" which is the Roman name for the Chichester.

Some information;

'The museum, designed by the architect Keith Williams following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions, has an area of 1,300 sq m which is approximately 2.4 times the size of the previous museum in Little London. The building is divided into three floors each of which will contain a gallery for exhibition. It contains a research and learning room as well as a collection store for the social history collection. The museum is built directly over the top of the Chichester's Roman Bath House complex which are displayed in the ground floor gallery.

The museum has over 350,000 objects of geological, archaeological and social historic interest. The social history and geological collections is made up of some 50,000 objects which are housed within the new building, whilst the archaeological collection is contained in a purpose built store within the Discovery Centre located at Fishbourne Roman Palace.'

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I had a lovely time at The Novium, so much so that it was gone 5 o'clock by the time I got back downstairs. I apologised as I honestly got carried away being in outer space and had no time left to visit the shop or check for snow globes.

The Novium is open from 10:00 - 17:00 Monday to Saturday and 10:00 - 16:00 Sundays & Bank Holidays and is FREE to visit. 

Visit their website HERE for everything you need to know and thank you to the staff for letting me take pictures.