FLARES and disco wigs will be making an appearance at Worcester's County Hall next month.

Members of the public will get the chance to see a whole host of 1970's memorabilia aboard Worcestershire County Council's new mobile museum on Friday, May 4.

The museum, which is now housed in a new vehicle, will be parked up outside County Hall between 9.30am and 4pm as part of a tour of the West Midlands.

Once aboard the touring museum, people will be catapulted back in the 1970s for its first exhibition.

Entitled 1977: The King, The Queen And Disco Fever, the exhibition is a celebration of the year of the Silver Jubilee when Abba's Knowing You, Knowing Me topped the charts, Star Wars was all the rage and Saturday Night Fever dominated cinemas up-and-down the country.

Sue Pope, the county council's education and outreach officer, said: "The mobile museum is aimed at encouraging more people to develop an interest in history.

"A lot of people don't have time to travel to the museum, but the mobile museum enables us to take what we have to offer to them.

"We're hoping it will show a wider variety of people the kind of things we do and encourage them to visit us at the County Museum."

The mobile museum is a joint initiative between the County Museum, based at Hartlebury Castle, and Warwickshire Museum funded by the West Midlands Hub. To find out more or arrange for the museum to visit a venue, call Sue Pope on 01299 250416.