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The funding announcement follows approval earlier this year to proceed with a programme of essential conservation and repair works, aimed at protecting the structure and ensuring the building can continue to operate safely as a museum

The project will gently enhance the space with new paths, benches and lighting, to make a peaceful green space for all to enjoy

Alongside the dinosaur skeleton, the exhibition presents an array of “discovered” objects from Colchester’s past

Colchester Museums has a great mix of egg-citing dinosaur adventures and medieval fun taking place from 28 March – 12 April

The exhibition, hosted at Hollytrees Museum, presents a truly magnificent highlight: a genuine dinosaur skeleton, known as ‘Juliasaurus’, measuring over six metres long, making its world premiere in Colchester

Among the highlights is a work by Banksy that has never been exhibited anywhere before entitled Rat with Drill

This year, the council in partnership with Colchester Amphora Events has awarded £30,000 to twenty-five cultural and creative events and projects, all set to run between 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2027

Essential repair works to Colchester’s Natural History Museum will begin this year - marking another major step towards the museum’s transformation

Step inside Europe’s largest Norman Keep and race to solve the mysterious puzzle of missing Castle staff, unexplained happenings and a curse waiting to be broke

A brand new exhibition is coming soon at Hollytress Museum!