News

Here you can find the latest important news stories concerning the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Library and Gallery, as well as other items of archaeological or natural history interest in the county. Click on the links to read the full story.

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SUMMER EVENTS FOR ALL THE FAMILY
Monday, 19 July, 2010
A Family Day with craft and archaeology based activities for the whole family is being held at the Museum on Sunday 25 July, from 11am to 4pm, as part of the Festival of British Archaeology.
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Has Calne Castle been found?
Tuesday, 13 July, 2010
Archaeologists are puzzled by the latest evidence from the excavation on the possible site of Calne Castle.
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Bus to link Stonehenge and Avebury!
Thursday, 01 July, 2010
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is considering launching a bus service to link Stonehenge and Avebury. At the moment, it is extremely difficult to travel between the two, and the Museum hopes to be able to boost tourism in the Vale of Pewsey and the Avon Valley.
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Bus to link Stonehenge and Avebury!
Wednesday, 23 June, 2010
Pilot bus service
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Museum on Time Team this Sunday!
Thursday, 20 May, 2010
This Sundays’ Time Team features the Roman town of Cunetio – the important Roman town that lies close to Marlborough. Filming featured finds from excavations on display at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.
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Museum Librarian to retire
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
Our long-standing Librarian, Dr Lorna Haycock, has announced that she will be retiring in June, after 20 years service at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
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Seeking a new Librarian and Archivist
Thursday, 22 April, 2010
Following the announcement that Lorna Haycock, the Sandell Librarian, is to retire, we are now seeking to appoint a new Librarian and Archivist.
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Want to work in Museums? An opportunity for Young People!
Monday, 22 February, 2010
We are recruiting a Creative Apprentice to join us at the Museum! Creative Apprenticeships are a brand new alternative route into the creative industries, one based on ability and potential rather than academic track record or social background and contacts.
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Viking Family Day at Museum - 21 February
Wednesday, 10 February, 2010
The Museum is holding a Viking Family Day on Sunday 21 February from 11am to 4pm. The Temesvikings re-enactment group will be setting up a tent and giving short talks on Viking life.
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Special evening lecture - Wiltshire at War 25 Feb
Friday, 05 February, 2010
Thursday 25 February at 7.30pm - "Wiltshire at War: Recording Wiltshire's Wartime Landscape from aerial photographs, field investigations and documentary sources", by Dan Miles and Edward Carpenter from English Heritage's National Monuments Records in Swindon.
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MUSEUM AND LIBRARY CLOSURE
Tuesday, 02 February, 2010
The Museum and Library will be closed for cleaning Wednesday 3 February to Friday 5 February (inclusive). Urgent enquiries, including booking for the lecture on Saturday,
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WW2 lectures coming up - Salisbury Plain and Devives
Sunday, 31 January, 2010
We have two fascinating lectures coming up in the next few weeks about Wiltshire at War, running alongside our Special Exhibition. Book now to make sure you have a ticket!
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Wiltshire museums join forces to tell story of Stonehenge
Monday, 11 January, 2010
English Heritage, the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, and the Wiltshire Heritage Museum have agreed to collaborate on presenting and interpreting the story of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
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Help us purchase a German Prisoner of War Diary
Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is hoping to purchase an unusual diary written by a German prisoner of war held at Le Marchant Camp in Devizes between 1944 and 1946.
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Current Exhibition: On the Home Front: Wiltshire in World War II
Friday, 18 December, 2009
Using photographs and original items this exhibition shows how the Wiltshire population dealt with the disruption and hardship of war. Go to the What's On section for details of lectures associated with the exhibition.
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New exhibition now open! On the Home Front: Wiltshire in World War II
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Our new exhibition about life on the Wiltshire Home Front during World War II is now open, and over 200 people came to the launch.
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EELES FAMILY POTTERY EXHIBITION
Friday, 09 October, 2009
An exhibition of work by the Eeles Family Pottery will be on display at Wiltshire Heritage Museum from 3 to 30 October 2009.
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Museum launches appeal - can you help us by donating online?
Friday, 02 October, 2009
The Museum has just received the wonderful news that it has been awarded a grant of £150,000 towards the £500,000 we need for future development. This is a magnificent first step towards our long-term project to create a new Bronze Age gallery to display our nationally important collections and to install a lift, which is important for those unable to climb the stairs. All of the grant has to be used on development work; none can be used for running the Museum.
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150 year old Wiltshire library goes digital - thanks to Google
Thursday, 01 October, 2009
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum library has just gone online with a full digital library created in just 5 months using the controversial Google Books service.
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Museum awarded fundraising boost!
Wednesday, 23 September, 2009
Wiltshire Heritage Museum has been awarded £4,500 by the Association for Independent Museums Sustainability Fund. This welcome funding boost will enable the Museum to employ a part-time fundraiser to increase its income.
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Archaeology Family Day at Museum
Tuesday, 28 July, 2009
An Archaeology themed Family Day is being held at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Sunday 2 August (11am – 4pm) as part of the 2009 Festival of British Archaeology.
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Roman coin hoard goes on display
Wednesday, 22 July, 2009
A hoard of Roman coins discovered at Alton Barnes in 2005 is going on permanent display at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Saturday 25 July to mark the 2009 Festival of British Archaeology.
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ENGLISH HERITAGE EXHIBITION AT MUSEUM
Saturday, 18 July, 2009
We are hosting, FOR THREE DAYS ONLY, English Heritage's exhibition about the selected location for the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge.
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Celebration of the Wierd and Wonderful - Julian Richards
Saturday, 27 June, 2009
Julian Richards will be sharing his enthusiasm about the wierd and wondeful 'Souvenirs of Stonehenge: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' at a talk on behalf of Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Saturday 18 July 2009.
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New display for Britain’s first Crown Jewels
Monday, 11 May, 2009
Today the campaign is launched to raise the £500,000 needed for the first permanent display of Britain’s most important Bronze Age burial. Discovered at Bush Barrow 200 years ago, the burial of a ‘stout and tall man’ has been described as “the king of Stonehenge” by the Daily Mail.
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New Exhibition: Inspired by Stonehenge
Tuesday, 05 May, 2009
A new exhibition featuring memorabilia about Stonehenge opens at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 16 May 2009.
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Filming in the snow
Friday, 06 February, 2009
Wiltshire College students are not letting a little snow get in the way of shooting a good video! They have been commissioned by Wiltshire Heritage Museum to shoot a series of videos as part of a project to improve visitor facilities and interpretation at Wiltshire Heritage Museum. Meanwhile, the work on creating a wheelchair accessible toilet, revamping the special exhibition gallery and installing energy efficient lighting is nearing completion, with a grand launch on 16th March.
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Exhibition of Gold
Tuesday, 07 October, 2008
THIS WEEKEND: A very special exhibition of objects rarely displayed, including gold, will be on show at Wiltshire Heritage Museum over the weekend of 25 and 26 October 2008. The finds were excavated from Bush Barrow, Salisbury Plain, in 1808; the richest and most important Bronze Age grave excavated in Britain.
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In the Footsteps of Churchill: A Lecture by Prof. Richard Holmes
Wednesday, 17 September, 2008
Professor Richard Holmes, author and presenter of BBC programmes on military history, will be giving this year’s fundraising lecture in aid of Wiltshire Heritage Museum. In the Footsteps of Churchill will take place at Devizes Town Hall on Saturday 18 October at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £15 and are available from the Museum in Long Street, Devizes (or telephone 01380 727369).
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Exhibition of Works by David Gunning
Tuesday, 17 June, 2008
A new exhibition of drawings by David Gunning will be on display at Wiltshire Heritage Museum from 28 June.
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Volunteers meet new Director
Tuesday, 03 June, 2008
As part of Volunteers’ Week, a national event now in its 24th year, the Wiltshire Heritage Museum invited all of its Volunteers to attend a Summer Coffee Morning on Tuesday 3 June 2008.
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Exhibition about Imber
Thursday, 24 April, 2008
A new special display telling the story of Imber village on Salisbury Plain opens on 3 May at Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
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Library Pass Introduced at Museum
Tuesday, 22 April, 2008
We have made it cheaper for researchers to use our Library with the introduction of a Library pass. The Library contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in researching local or family history, the archaeology or natural history of the county. The Library Pass costs £12 (£9 for concessions) and entitles a researcher to four visits to the Library – the usual cost would be £16 (£12 concessions).
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Exhibition by Richard Shirley Smith
Wednesday, 09 April, 2008
A new exhibition displaying work by local artist Richard Shirley Smith opened on 5 April at Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
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New Director at Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Tuesday, 01 April, 2008
Mr David Dawson has been appointed the new Director of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society and Wiltshire Heritage Museum based in Devizes. His appointment follows the retirement of Dr Paul Robinson at the end of February, who had been Curator at the Museum since 1986.
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Sport: a History of the Clubs in and around Devizes
Friday, 18 January, 2008
A new exhibition ‘Sport: a History of the Clubs in and around Devizes’ opens at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Saturday 19 January. Featuring items from both the Museum’s own collection and those of local sports clubs, this new exhibition is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the history of sport in and around Devizes. With contributions from the town’s football, rugby and bowls clubs, the exhibition tells the story of how these clubs, and others like them, got started.
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Devizes Then and Now: an Exhibition of Photographs
Monday, 03 December, 2007
The new exhibition at Wiltshire Heritage Museum ‘Devizes Then and Now: An Exhibition of Photographs’, will be opened by the Mayor of Devizes, Councillor Julian Beinhorn on Monday 3 December 2007.
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Exhibition by Trowbridge College Lecturer
Thursday, 11 October, 2007
The current exhibition at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, which opened on Saturday 6 October, is of paintings by Anthony Williams, a lecturer at Wiltshire College, Trowbridge who teaches on the Foundation Art and Design Course.
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Before the Mast: Life on Board the Mary Rose - a Lecture
Monday, 08 October, 2007
The subject of this year’s fundraising lecture in aid of Wiltshire Heritage Museum is life on board the Mary Rose. The lecture by Dr Julie Gardiner, editor of Before the Mast: Life and Death aboard the Mary Rose, will take place at Devizes Town Hall on Saturday 10 November at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £12 and are available from the Museum in Long Street, Devizes (or telephone 01380 727369).
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Government Grant to Museum
Monday, 03 September, 2007
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes has been awarded a grant of £11,000 towards visitor access improvements at the Museum. The grant, announced last week by the Government, is part of a £4m fund which will benefit 43 museums and galleries in England.
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All About Stonehenge
Thursday, 19 July, 2007
A new exhibition of paintings devoted solely to Stonehenge will be opening at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 20 July. The Museum has been fortunate in having recently acquired a number of important works depicting the monument and this exhibition is an opportunity for members of the public to view them.
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What Makes Devizes Special?
Thursday, 05 July, 2007
An illustrated lecture ‘What Makes Devizes Special’? will be presented by Dr Lorna Haycock at Devizes Town Hall on Saturday 28 July at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Wiltshire Heritage Museum. Funds raised will go towards the work of maintaining the Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Library.
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Oexmann Art Award Exhibition
Tuesday, 05 June, 2007
An exhibition displaying winning and selected entries from the tenth biennial Oexmann Art Awards Competition opened on Saturday 2 June.
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Oexmann Art Awards Prize-giving
Thursday, 31 May, 2007
Prizes for the tenth biennial Oexmann Art Awards Competition will be awarded on Saturday 2 June from 5pm. The prize-giving also marks the opening of an exhibition of the winners and selected entries.
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A Victorian Castle in Devizes
Friday, 11 May, 2007
A new exhibition recently opened at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes giving visitors the opportunity to see inside Devizes Castle in its Victorian heyday.
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A Gruesome and Melancholy End
Thursday, 10 May, 2007
A new acquisition for the library at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum details the execution in 1824 at Devizes Prison of two men from Pewsey and All Cannings for the robbing and attempted murder of a local farmer.
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Object of the Month: March
Friday, 02 March, 2007
The Museum’s ‘Object of the Month’ for March is a memento of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
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Thomas Hardy's Landscapes - an exhibition of drawings by Robert Pountney
Friday, 23 February, 2007
An exhibition of drawings inspired by the landscape of Thomas Hardy’s novels and poems opens at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Saturday 24 February.
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The Collecting Bug: an Exhibition of some local private collections
Tuesday, 06 February, 2007
An exhibition of unusual local collections is taking place at Wiltshire Heritage Museum from 31 January to 21 April.
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Object of the Month: A new initiative
Wednesday, 31 January, 2007
From February Wiltshire Heritage Museum will each month be displaying a very special object from the Museum’s reserve collection. This ‘Object of the Month’ will be visually attractive, unusual and have a special story attached to it.
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History from the Air
Thursday, 25 January, 2007
English Heritage’s touring exhibition ‘Aerial Photography and Archaeology - 100 years of Discovery’ opened at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 17 January.
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Join The Club
Wednesday, 17 January, 2007
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is hosting an event called 'Join the Club' on Tuesday 23 January from 3 - 8 pm: an opportunity for visitors to learn more about local organisations and how they can get involved.
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Festive Finds Day
Thursday, 30 November, 2006
The Finds Liaison Officer for Wiltshire, Katie Hinds, will be holding a finds identification session at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Monday 18 December between 10 am and 3 pm. Entry is free.
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Childrens Christmas Quiz at the Museum
Tuesday, 21 November, 2006
A display of objects from the Museum’s recent history collection is the focus of a new exhibition opening on 24 November.
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George Eliot in Wiltshire: from Lacock to Bowood to the Beaufort Hunt
Wednesday, 08 November, 2006
American Professor of English, Kathleen McCormack, will be presenting a lecture ‘George Eliot: from Lacock to Bowood to the Beaufort Hunt’ at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Sunday 19 November at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £3.00 in advance (£3.50 on the day) and are available from the Museum shop. This is the first time a lecture has been arranged for a Sunday afternoon and it is hoped it will appeal to local people who are busy during the week.
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‘Resonance: engaging with the archaeology of place’
Wednesday, 01 November, 2006
An exhibition of artwork by Sue Bradshaw opens at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Saturday 11 November and will incorporate a 3D installation of oil paintings, painting, printmaking and artefacts.
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Museum Fundraising Lecture: The Stonehenge Riverside Project
Tuesday, 17 October, 2006
The Museum Fundraising Lecture this year is entitled ‘The Stonehenge Riverside Project’ and will be presented by Prof. Mike Parker-Pearson of Sheffield University at 2.30 pm on Saturday 9 December at Devizes Town Hall. Tickets cost £10.00 from the Museum shop.
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Flowers and Gardens: an exhibition of recent watercolours by Wendy Trinder BSc, SWA, FSBA
Thursday, 14 September, 2006
An exhibition of watercolour paintings of flowers and gardens, by local artist Wendy Trinder opens at the Museum on 16 September 2006.
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The Medieval Hearth: Food and Drink in the Middle Ages
Thursday, 14 September, 2006
An exhibition looking at food and drink in the Middle Ages opened at the Museum on 7 September, and coincides with the 2nd Devizes Food Festival.
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August Activities at the Museum
Friday, 04 August, 2006
There is no reason to be bored during the school holidays as the Museum has many activities and events for all the family.
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Wiltshire Crop Circles: Images in the Landscape
Friday, 30 June, 2006
An exhibition of photographic images and black and white drawings of crop circles in the historic Wiltshire landscape opens at the Museum on 8 July 2006.
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Museum Acquires Important medieval jewellery
Thursday, 22 June, 2006
Two exquisite examples of medieval jewellery found by metal detectorists in Wiltshire have been acquired by the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
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Devizes Market Place Through the Ages
Tuesday, 30 May, 2006
Old photographs and images of Devizes Market Place will be on display in the Wiltshire Heritage Museum between 2 - 17 June, to coincide with the Devizes Festival.
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Refurbished Art Gallery and Lecture Hall Opens
Tuesday, 16 May, 2006
A £42,000 project to improve the Museum’s Art Gallery and Lecture Hall will be completed this week. The much needed improvements include a new computer-controlled lighting system for the Art Gallery, air conditioning for both the Art Gallery and Lecture Hall and installation of a modern ceiling mounted digital projector in the Lecture Room.
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Homage to Eve - An exhibition by members, past and present, of The Brotherhood of Ruralists
Friday, 12 May, 2006
The Devizes poet, Eve Machin, will be celebrated in a special exhibition by the Brotherhood of Ruralists, which opens on Saturday 13 May. The exhibition will also include works by local artist David Inshaw.
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Forthcoming Activities for Children and Families at the Museum
Monday, 08 May, 2006
We will be launching our new children’s quiz sheet on Saturday 13th May. This covers all the galleries, encouraging children to look at the objects more closely and find out more about the collections. It will be available all summer to visitors.
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Wiltshire Poets of World War 1
Thursday, 20 April, 2006
The poetry of two former Marlborough College students is the focus of a new exhibition at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, opening on 28 April 2006. The works of Siegfried Sassoon and Charles Hamilton Sorley, both of whom were educated at Marlborough College and later fought in the trenches of World War I, are explored and the effects of the war on their poetry revealed.
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Stonehenge World Heritage Site: Highways Agency A303 Stonehenge Improvement Scheme Review Consultation
Thursday, 30 March, 2006
Collective Response from Conservation Organisations: On 17th March 2006, leading independent conservation organisations met to agree a common view of the current Highways Agency A303 Stonehenge Improvement Scheme Review consultation.
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Life in Edwardian Devizes
Monday, 27 March, 2006
The run of the exhibition ‘Life in Edwardian Devizes’, focusing on the retail trade of Devizes 100 years ago, has been extended to 18 April.
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Recognition for Museum
Tuesday, 21 March, 2006
Wiltshire Heritage Museum is delighted to announce that it has been awarded Full Accreditation by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is one of the first museums in the South West to achieve this.
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Museums Collections go Online
Thursday, 09 March, 2006
Visitors to the Wiltshire Heritage Museum website can now search more of the Museum’s online catalogue as 42,000 records and 1,500 images (photographs) have been uploaded to this site (click on ‘search the collections’ above). This is a major milestone in the Museum’s documentation project, which aims to computerise its entire collection.
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The Romans are coming
Tuesday, 14 February, 2006
Wiltshire Heritage Museum’s first family day this year will be a Roman themed day taking place on Sunday 19th February between 12 and 4pm.
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Life in Edwardian Devizes
Monday, 06 February, 2006
A new exhibition ‘Life in Edwardian Devizes’ opens at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 3 February 2006. The exhibition focuses on Devizes as a local retail and trade centre 100 years ago and has been prepared in conjunction with the Devizes Chamber of Commerce which was formed in 1905.
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Stonehenge Road Options Review
Monday, 23 January, 2006
Today’s announcement of the five options to be discussed in the review process for the A303 road through the Stonehenge landscape, with details of how that process is to be conducted, falls far short of serious consideration of possible alternative schemes that are appropriate for this iconic World Heritage site.
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Images of a Devizes Street
Monday, 16 January, 2006
On Friday 13 January 'Images of a Devizes Street: paintings, drawings and photographs of Sheep Street, Devizes' opened. Sheep Street, Devizes was radically transformed in the mid-1950s as an area of over-crowded cottages and small shops in the fourteen courts were swept away as part of a post-war clearance scheme, to be replaced by six large blocks of flats. With outdoor sanitation and wash-houses, the cottages did not meet modern standards of hygiene, yet they had been for several centuries a lively and friendly community, housing twice the number of residents accommodated in the new flats.
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Dolmens of Ganghwa Island. An exhibition of drawings of Megalithic Tombs in South Korea.
Friday, 11 November, 2005
David Gunning, one of the countries most accomplished contemporary artists, returns to Wiltshire Heritage Museum this month to exhibit some of his most recent work. An exceptionally fine artist, David Gunning has exhibited in over 50 one man shows and in numerous mixed exhibitions and competitions. Examples of his drawings are found in many private and municipal collections, some of the most prestigious being, Her Majesty the Queen’s Royal Collection, The Palace of Westminster. London, The National Museum of Wales, and the Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum.
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The Siege of Devizes and the Battle of Roundway Down. An exhibition of original sources and relics.
Monday, 04 July, 2005
Sadly not many relics survive of the cavalry Battle of Roundway Down on 14 July 1643, certainly the best known and most important event in the long history of Devizes. After the battle all weapons from the fight that could be re-used would have been taken away by the victorious Royalist army, ‘scavengers’ from Devizes would have removed anything else that had been left on the battlefield while the bodies of the dead would have been stripped before burial.
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Art in Wiltshire.
Thursday, 20 January, 2005
The Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society is pleased to announce the publication of it's full colour book "Art in Wiltshire" on 2 February 2005.
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Monkey Business at the Museum
Friday, 26 November, 2004
An item of lost property found itself making news in the local papers last month, but, despite this publicity, "Ginger Nut" the monkey has yet to be claimed by his owner and may well find himself a permanent resident.
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Eeles Family Exhibition Opens
Saturday, 09 October, 2004
An exhibition by the Eeles family of potters was opened on Friday 8 October by the Society Chairman, Lt Col R C Chamberlain.
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Stonehenge Visitor Centre Planning Application- Now available for viewing.
Monday, 04 October, 2004
A copy of the planning application for the proposed Stonehenge Visitor Centre has been deposited in the Wiltshire Heritage Library for members and the public to view. All Comments to be in by 26th October 2004.
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New Website Launched!
Monday, 27 September, 2004
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is proud to announce the opening of it's new website, completed as part of the New Opportunities Fund project "Window on Wiltshire's Heritage" and packed with wonderful images of the museum, library and gallery collections.
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Discovering the Romans: The current excavation of Bradford on Avon Roman Villa
Saturday, 03 July, 2004
One of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in Wiltshire in recent years has been the Roman villa at Bradford on Avon. It had for many years been suspected that a Roman villa existed at Bradford on Avon but its exact location was for long an elusive mystery. The villa was finally discovered in 1999, lying only inches below the surface of the playing fields of St. Lawrence School. Excavation of the villa began in Summer 2002 and continued in 2003. The final season will be this summer.
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