Festival Passes
Booking Your Autumn Festival Passes
Quench your curiosity and enjoy the Autumn Festival with one of our hugely popular and great-value festival passes. Limited numbers are available and often sell out quickly.
Festival Pass – £400
Offers you in-person access for the full 9 days of Blackfriars Talks – a saving of 30%.
Festival Pass holders receive a Festival lanyard.
Festival Pass holders get the same reserved seat for all 49 Blackfriars Talks events.
Numbers are limited!


You can book both digital passes until 9pm on Sunday 22 September and view all your events until Friday 27 September.
Digital ticket holders also have access to a dedicated Livestream helpline.
Digital Weekend Pass – £25
For £25 The Digital Weekend Pass gives you access to the final 14 events of the Gloucester History Festival programme running from 6pm on Friday 20 September. Speakers include Philippa Gregory, Natalie Haynes, Mark Gatiss, Susie Dent, Robert Service, Helen Castor and Kate Mosse.
Digital Pass – £60
Watch the livestreamed Blackfriars Programme at your leisure with digital access to the 2024 Blackfriars Talks.
Buying a Digital Pass allows you to view every livestreamed event either live or online via the same link until 11pm on Friday 27 September.
Festival Day Pass – £50
Available on weekdays (Tuesday – Thursday only) the Day Pass offers you entry to all events that day, saving you up to 20%.
This pass is offered as a discount which is applied automatically if you add a ticket to all events on a particular day and go to checkout. All you need to do is make sure you’ve added a ticket to all the events on that day to your shopping basket.
1. Browse our selection of events
2. Choose the day you want to attend
3. Click the Book Now button that is on the event page of any event on your chosen day. This takes you through to TicketSource.
4. Click Book Now on the TicketSource page
5. Enter the number of tickets you need and a donation amount if you’d like to. Click Next.
6. Choose your seat(s) and click Next.
7. When you reach the end of the booking process you will have the choice to click Checkout OR Continue Shopping. Click Continue Shopping choose your day and scroll down to find the other events on your chosen day. Click Book Now on another one of the events.
8. Repeat steps 5, 6 and 7 until you have added all 5 of the events on your chosen day to your basket. You can also add any other events you want to buy tickets for, until you have finished shopping.
9. Click Checkout and your discount will be automatically applied.
Please note that once a single event on any day has sold out, day passes will no longer be available for that day.
MONDAY 16 September and FRIDAY 20th September PASSES SOLD OUT – individual event tickets still available
Ticketing information
Ticket booking information
Bookings are available online, by phone and via the in-person Box Office at the Museum of Gloucester
Book online: from 9 AM Friday 26 July
Book by phone: 07834 406228 (from 10 AM Friday 26 July)
Book in person:
Museum Of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, Gloucester
Tuesday – Saturday 10.00-16.00, Sunday 11.00-15.00
(The Museum is closed on Mondays)
There is a Box Office onsite but we recommend booking ahead to avoid disappointment.
Reservable seating: you can now choose and book specific seats when you book online, via phone or in person.
Book signings organised by Waterstones take place after each event.
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