Portsmouth City Museum in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom | Museum

The main displays feature the 'Story of Portsmouth' which is introduced by an audio visual history of the city. Walk through Portsdown Hill's chalk tunnel and meet Stone Age man, a wholly rhinoceros and the skeleton of a Saxon warrior excavated locally!
Discover how life at home has changed over the centuries in the 'Living in Portsmouth' Gallery which looks at life in the home with the reconstruction of a 17th century bedchamber, an 1871 dockyard worker's kitchen, a Victorian parlour, a 1930s kitchen and a 1950s living room. The story continues with 'Portsmouth at Play' on the beach, in the cinema, on the football field and dance floor.
There is also a fine and Decorative Art Gallery, which features a wide range of material from the 17th century to the present day; the Portsmouth Picture Gallery ith itsextensive and important collection of local paintings, prints and drawings, and the Temporary Exhibition Gallery where a regularly changing programme ensures that there is always something to see or do.