The Museum of Gloucester had a problem that a lot of museums will recognise: decades of archaeological finds sitting in storage, largely unseen, with no easy way to connect them to the people whose city they came from. The Discovery Centre was their answer to that, a year-long public hub created in partnership with Cotswold Archaeology, where visitors could walk in off the street and watch the work happening in front of them.

We were brought in to document the project and tell the story of what it actually achieved. That meant spending time with the archaeologists, the museum staff, and the volunteers who gave months of their time to unpacking, cataloguing and recording finds from beneath Gloucester's streets. The film follows the rhythm of that work, the quiet focus of it, the moments of discovery, and the people who made it happen.

The finished film gives the museum a record of a project that did something genuinely unusual: it took archaeology out of the archive and put it in front of the public, and showed that people wanted to be part of it.