Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago

Taking a look at life in ancient Shropshire, Sun & Fire provides visitors with an opportunity to learn about life in the county between 4,500 and 2,000 years ago. As its main title suggests, the exhibition has a particular focus on the significance of light and heat for people living in prehistoric times, exploring how the sun was once upon a time celebrated with huge stone circles and bright gold objects... The exhibition is interactive and has been funded by Arts Council England.

Experience life in Shropshire between 4500 and 2000 years ago. That’s roughly the time from 2500 BCE until the Romans invaded Britain in 43 CE.

Before the Romans came, people in Britain didn’t use writing. That means there’s a lot we don’t know about them. But they left many objects and other traces in the Shropshire landscape and by examining these closely, we can try to work out what their lives were like. Come and see how we can tell that heat was vital to them. Find out how they used fire to make beautiful and useful objects, to cook and to cremate their dead.

Explore our interactive exhibition and learn how we once celebrated the sun with huge stone circles and bright gold objects. We can’t be sure why they did some of these things. We can only guess what they thought and believed. But we do know that in lots of ways these people were like us, with bodies and senses like ours. They felt the heat of flames on their skin and the sun’s warmth on their faces. Their lives were full of sensations, sights, sounds and scents.

Step into the ancient Shropshire landscape at this new thought-provoking exhibition, and experience them for yourself.

Adult 18 +: £4.50 Child :Free (accompanied by paying adult ) Friends of Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery – Member Price: £3.50* National Art Pass Members: £2.25*

Tickets will be for sale on-line and in the museum shop *Friends and National Art Pass Members - please purchase ticket on arrival with membership proof please.