We made a brief visit to this excellent museum earlier in June as part of a visit to Melrose. Extremely impressed - very friendly front-of-house team, high quality of presentation and layout, two very good introductory films (about the Romans in Britain, and Iron Age Scotland), fascinating exhibits. We also booked separately a guided walking tour of the Roman Fort site - we decided on the shorter version, starting from the nearby village of Newstead, lasting about an hour and a half. This too was really good, led by our enthusiastic and informative guide Geraldine, and gave a real sense of what this pretty large and significant Roman site would have been like in its heyday. (There are a good number of information panels around the site, but probably not easy to find them all on your own.) Our museum tickets are valid for a year, so we'll be back for a further visit next time we're in the Scottish Borders.

This place is fully loaded. Solid 1hr+ family adventure. One mighty room packed with roman finds. I was truly impressed with the quality and diversity of the artefacts on display. Don't be put off with the small scale of the outside. It's well worth a visit. Really impressed with the recreation armour and balista. The original finds are beautiful, stunning, and even intimidating. The staff know their stuff and could have enthused all day. My son went full legionary on us in Dress up. Good ground floor access if you are disabled. You may have to hunt for parking in this historic town. Staff could not be more helpful.

Small but informative museum recommend you go and experience the size of the Fort after the museum visit it's much larger than the pictures portray in the museum. Some impressive artifacts and the movie is definitely worth a view . Coin hoard on display is a belter.

We visted this superb museum in November. As soon as we entered we were met by an assistant who first asked our level of knowledge of Roman history so that he could pitch his talk perfectly. Extremely intelligent and eloquent he was a fount of knowledge explaining the history of the attempted Roman occupation of the borders and the repeated defeats. There was a collection of original, borrowed and models of Roman artefacts. In the centre was a wonderful interactive display which explained all the different parts of the fort and surroundings. It is worth noting that if visiting the area keep receipts of your Abbey and museum entrances and you will qualify for discounts. The museum is fully accessible - my wife is in a wheelchair and we had no problems.

The museum is small but absolutely filled with interesting things to look at. There is an area showing two short interesting documentaries too which we enjoyed. Staff were super helpful and friendly and the gift shop is lovely too. There were no walks on to the site of Trimontium when we visited due to it being out of season and dismal weather. Note that the museum is just a museum and is not at the actual site. My understanding is that the walk is a fairly long, fairly uphill and there is nothing of the settlement left to actually see. There is on street parking outside of the museum. The entrance is on the street along with the shops and could easily be overlooked as a shop front - it's just up from Burt's Hotel. All in all definitely worth a visit.

A brilliant small Roman museum with lots of artifacts and lots of information. Really good 5 min video telling the history of the fort. Staff were fantastic and very knowledgeable, they were happy to chat about the museum and about the fort itself just along the road. As with most historic sites had a shop selling souvenirs but a great range of nice gifts. Highly recommend visiting this museum when in Melrose, definitely not to be missed.