POETRY IN GALLERIES AUG 2025

Drop-in, FREE activity on Saturday afternoon

Rome & Etruscan Galleries 13 & 15


With Oxfordshire poets

Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will explore and celebrate the Museum’s pieces, renowned or recherche, intriguing or glorious and newly-acquired artworks.

Poems will be recited next to the objects and artworks that inspired the poets. If you want to talk to the poets, most of us are friendly! 

This tour will be inside the newly-redesigned Rome and Etruscan galleries.

Ancient Roman statue

Inside the new Rome gallery