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Venue Exhibitions

• Wessex – Landscapes of Association: an exhibition of works by Rob Pountney
• A Love Letter to Wiltshire: an Exhibition of Paintings by Joanna May
• Wessex Airscapes: Elevating Wiltshire
• Lest We Forget: the Black Contribution to the World Wars in Wiltshire
• Eric Walrond: A Caribbean Writer living in Wiltshire
• The Wiltshire Thatcher – a Photographic Journey through Victorian Wessex
• This and That: a display of recent acquisitions, loans and community photographs
• Eric Ravilious Downland Man
• Hardy’s Wessex: The landscapes that inspired a writer
• Ways of Seeing Wiltshire
• Wildlife in the Red: Wildflower Meadows
• Barrow Clump – Saxon finds
• Oexmann Art Award Competition and Exhibition 2022
• Oexmann Art Award Exhibition 2022
• Oexmann Art Award Exhibition 2019
• Earth and the Universe
• Cloth Road Arts – Visual Arts, promoting artists and artisans in Wiltshire
• Out of Egypt
• Jomonism and Manga: Japanese Contemporary Art inspired by Prehistory
• Alchemy: Artefacts Reimagined
• Devizes Camera Club
• Snakes … a Slither into a Secret World
• Wiltshire Remembers: Aftermath of the First World War
• Artwork by Louise Rolt MA Royal College of Art
• Votes for Women! Celebrating Then and Now
• INTERPRETATION & EXPRESSION: ARCHAEOLOGY & ART – Peter Dunn
• The Winds and Words of War: Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library
• Compassion in Crisis: 80 Years of the Royal Voluntary Service
• Telling Wiltshire’s Story: 30 Years of Support from Art Fund
• SPOIL HEAP
• Devizes Camera Club Biennial Print Exhibition 2017

Venue Events

• Book Launch and Talk: Walking the White Horses
• FREE: Heritage Open Day and family craft activities
• LECTURE: Flint and fire: the first half million years of early humans in Britain
• LECTURE: The Hunt for Stourton Castle
• Film Screening – Far From The Madding Crowd
• Film Screening – Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
• Film Screening – Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
• Film Screening – Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
• JUBILEE BANK HOLIDAY – CLOSED 2nd and 3rd
• MAY BANK HOLIDAYS – OPENING TIMES
• MAY BANK HOLIDAY – OPENING TIMES
• EASTER WEEKEND OPENING TIMES
• EASTER WEEKEND OPENING TIMES
• LECTURE and BOOK LAUNCH: Mary and Kate Hardy
• LECTURE: The Mystery of Wansdyke
• POSTPONED – LECTURE: Twentieth Century Dress at the Fashion Museum Bath
• LECTURE: The Story of Edward Duke and the Amesbury Oliver
• LECTURE: Contemporary art, aerial photography and the Wiltshire landscape
• LECTURE: Stonehenge: A Brief History
• LECTURE: Fractured Britannia – material culture and the end of Roman Britain
• POSTPONED – LECTURE: Fractured Britannia – material culture and the end of Roman Britain
• LECTURE: Building Stonehenge: What Happened in Wiltshire
• Book Launch: Hidden Wiltshire: from near and far
• Hardy’s Wessex exhibition: Meet the Curator
• Day course: Stone Carving with Andrew Ziminski
• Day course: Stone Carving with Andrew Ziminski
• Day course: Stone Carving with Andrew Ziminski
• Day course: Stone Carving with Andrew Ziminski
• Day course: Stone Carving with Andrew Ziminski
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Day course: Wood Engraving with Robin Mackenzie
• Art Course: Inspired by Ravilious, by Sue Martin
• Tuesday Masterpiece Tour – Eric Ravilious: Downland Man Exhibition
• Group Tours – Eric Ravilious: Downland Man
• Christmas and New Year Opening
• Christmas/New Year Opening
• Christmas/New Year Opening
• Christmas/New Year Opening
• October half-term
• AGM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
• AGM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
• Bookable admission – Fri & Sat 24 & 25 July; Fri & Sat 31 July & 1 Aug
• CANCELLED – Easter Activities – Relaxed Session for ages 6 to 11
• CANCELLED: Relaxed Opening – Autism Awareness
• CANCELLED: Easter Activities – For under 6s
• CANCELLED: Easter Activities – Ancient Egyptian themed Family Workshops
• CANCELLED: Easter Holiday Activities – Easter themed
• CANCELLED: Easter Activities – Ancient Egyptian themed Family Workshops
• CANCELLED: Easter Holiday Activities – Easter themed
• CANCELLED: World Heritage Day – Egyptian themed drop-in activities
• CANCELLED: Easter Holiday – Easter Egg Hunt
• Late May Bank Holiday weekend
• Early May Bank Holiday – CLOSED
• Curious Kids: A Tudor Christmas
• Curious Kids: Victorian Homes
• Curious Kids: Toys from the past
• Curious Kids: Egyptians
• Curious Kids: Dinosaurs and Fossils
• Curious Kids: Romans
• Curious Kids: Tudors
• Curious Kids: Kings and Queens
• Curious Kids: Books and more!
• Curious Kids: Bugs
• Curious Kids: Vikings
• Curious Kids: Toys and Games (CANCELLED)
• Curious Kids: Egyptians
• Curious Kids: Vikings!
• Curious Kids: Down at the Farm
• Curious Kids: Dinosaurs!
• Curious Kids: “Digging it”
• Curious Kids: Kings and Queens
• Curious Kids: Under the Sea
• Curious Kids: Toys and Games
• Curious Kids: Horses
• Curious Kids: Egyptians
• Curious Kids: Dinosaurs
• CANCELLED: Curious Kids: Archaeology
• Dementia Friendly Tour – May: POSTPONED
• Dementia Friendly Tour – March
• Holiday Activities – Stars and Space
• Holiday Activities – Stars and Space
• CANCELLED: Curious Kids – Moonrakers
• CANCELLED: Curious Kids – Wildlife
• POSTPONED: Curious Kids – Stonehenge
• Relaxed Opening – Autism Awareness
• Stonehenge Landscape Walk – May 2020: POSTPONED
• POSTPONED: Devizes Castle – Norman Stronghold to Victorian Folly
• Romano-British Pewter in Wiltshire
• Recent excavations at West Kennet Palisades enclosures
• Digging up Britain
• The prehistoric chalkland landscape of Stonehenge, Avebury and Dorchester – tearing up the text books and starting again
• A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire: English Heritage and Operation Nightingale excavations
• POSTPONED: A Behind The Scenes Tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• CANCELLED: A Behind The Scenes Tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• CANCELLED: A Behind The Scenes Tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• A Behind The Scenes Tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• Wessex Women Workshop – February
• Day Course: Ancient Landscapes Seen and Imagined, with Helen Garrett
• Art Course: Drawing on the Ancient Past, with Helen Garrett
• Curious Kids: Stonehenge Gold
• Curious Kids: Roman Mosaics
• Wessex Women Workshop
• Family Workshop: Christmas Crafts
• Opening Times over the Festive Period
• October Holiday Activities – Halloween
• FREE: Storytelling for all the family, with Tim Laycock
• FREE: Storytelling for all the family, with Tim Laycock
• Summer Holiday Activity – art and craft sessions for under 12s
• Summer Holiday Activity – art and craft sessions for under 12s
• Summer Holiday Activity – art and craft sessions for under 12s
• Family Holiday Activity – Medieval themed crafts
• Family Holiday Activity – Superstitions
• Family Holiday Activity – Felt Crafts for under 6s
• Family Holiday Activity – Hardy Textiles
• Easter Holiday Activities – Art from Ancient Civilizations
• Easter Holiday Activities – Spring and Easter Crafts
• Easter Holiday Activities – Spring wildlife themed activities
• Easter Holiday Activities – Easter themed activities
• Summer Holiday Activities: Summer Textiles and Crafts
• Summer Holiday Activities: Viking Explorers
• Summer Holiday Activities: Dinosaurs and Underwater Sea Creatures
• Summer Holiday Activities: Prehistoric Discoveries
• October Holiday Activities
• May Holiday Activities
• February Holiday Activities – Toys
• February Holiday Activities – Traditional Toys
• February Holiday Activities – Traditional Toys
• October Holiday Activities – Chalk landscapes and White Horses
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Fossils and Dinosaur Crafts
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Fossils and Dinosaur Crafts
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Prehistoric Cave Art Creations
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Prehistoric Cave Art Creations
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Ways of Seeing Wiltshire
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Ways of Seeing Wiltshire
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Ancient Greek Olympics
• Summer Holiday Activities at the Museum – Ancient Greek Olympic Crafts
• Holiday Activities: Welcome back to the Museum
• Holiday Activities: Welcome back to the Museum
• Holiday Activities: Egyptian Themed
• Holiday Activities: Halloween Crafts
• Holiday Activities: Museum Arts and Crafts
• Antiques and Collectables Charity Valuation Day, with Marc Allum and Lisa Lloyd
• ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
• Lecture: Art UK: Democratising Access to the Nation’s Art, by Andrew Ellis
• Lecture: Bronze Age Gold and the Bush Barrow Dagger
• Scanning the Past: 3D models of historic buildings, by Robin Ault
• Curious Kids
• Curious Kids
• Lecture: Mapping Prehistory: OGS Crawford and the Origins of Wessex, by Martyn Barber
• Sold out: Lecture: The Old Stones – the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland, by Andy Burnham
• A tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• A tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• A tour of Wiltshire Museum (for members only)
• Stonehenge Landscape Walk – July 2019
• Easter Weekend – CLOSED
• Easter Weekend – Opening Times
• World Heritage Day – snake themed craft activities
• Snake themed craft activities
• Art Course: Drawing on the Ancient Past, with Helen Garrett
• Young WANHS – Sssnakes …
• Young WANHS – Dyeing to meet you!
• Young WANHS: Roman Feast.
• Young WANHS – Medieval Medicines and Cures
• Young WANHS – Post Excavation activities
• Young WANHS – Saxons
• Young WANHS: Visit to the archaeological dig at Truckle Hill
• Young WANHS: Mini Curators
• Young WANHS – ARTS Award
• NEW – Museum Explorer’s Club: Christmas Traditions
• May Holiday Activities – Magical Materials
• Free event: Make & Take: Hardy’s Landscape in Collage
• Museum Explorers Club: Mini Museum Displays
• Silent Disco – for ages 8 to 12
• Eerie-on-Sea: Family Activity Session
• Trick or Treat! Family Activity Session
• Trick or Treat! Family Activity Session
• Home Education Sessions: Fossils, dinosaurs and prehistoric sea creatures
• Home Education Sessions: Journey Through Prehistory
• Home Education Sessions: Journey Through Prehistory
• Museum Explorers Club: Hare and wild life art
• Museum Explorers Club: Iron Age Themed Activities
• Museum Explorers Club – December
• Museum Explorers Club – November
• Museum Explorers Club – October
• Museum Explorers Club: Rock Detectives – fossils and rocks
• Museum Explorers Club: Archaeological Investigations
• Museum Explorers Club: Roman Themed Activities
• Museum Explorers Club: Roman Themed Activities – CANCELLED
• Museum Explorers Club: The Ice Age
• Museum Explorers Club: Mythical creatures
• Museum Explorers Club: Tudor Christmas
• Museum Explorers Club: Saxons and Viking invaders
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Rock Detective
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Ancient Egyptians
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Thomas Hardy’s Wessex
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Kings and Queens
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Bronze Age People and Artefacts
• Museum Explorer’s Club: Potty about pots!
• NEW – Museum Explorer’s Club: The Romans!
• NEW – Museum Explorer’s Club: Ravilious and the Chalk Downland Landscape
• NEW – Museum Explorer’s Club: Ravilious and the Chalk Downland Landscape
• Young WANHS – An Unofficial guide on being an archaeologist
• NEW – Museum Explorer’s Club: Archaeological Discoveries
• Jonathan’s Jungle Roadshow
• Young Curator’s Club: Christmas Traditions
• Young Curators Club: Hare and wild life art
• Young Curators Club: Iron Age
• Young Curators Club: December
• Young Curators Club: November
• Young Curators Club: October
• Young Curators Club: Rock Detectives – fossils and rocks
• Young Curators Club: Archaeological Investigations
• Young Curators Club: Roman Feast
• Young Curators Club: Roman Feast – CANCELLED
• Young Curators Club: The Ice Age
• Young Curators Club: Mythical creatures
• Young Curators Club: Tudor Christmas
• Young Curators Club: Mini Museum Displays
• Young Curator’s Club: Saxons and Viking invaders
• Young Curator’s Club: Rock Detective
• Young Curator’s Club: Ancient Egyptians
• Young Curator’s Club: Thomas Hardy’s Wessex
• Young Curator’s Club: Kings and Queens
• Young Curator’s Club: Daggers from the Bronze Age
• Young Curator’s Club: Potty about pots!
• Young Curator’s Club: Romans and the origins of Valentine’s Day
• Young Curator’s Club: Ravilious and the Chalk Downland Landscape
• Young Curator’s Club: Ravilious and the Chalk Downland Landscape
• Lecture: Identity and Ideology during the Beaker period by Chris Carey, University of Brighton
• Young Curator’s Club: Archaeological Discoveries
• Lecture: Eric Ravilious: White Horses and the ‘lost’ Puffin picture book by Joe Pearson, Design for Today
• Lecture: Raising the Lacock Cup: making a replica using medieval silver-smithing techniques by Mike Neilson , British Museum
• Lecture: Wessex and Mycenae: old finds and new insights by Ken Wardle, University of Birmingham
• Devizes in Focus Presentation Evening
• Members Tour of the Museum with David Dawson
• Museum at Night
• The Secrets Within the Earth: Workshop
• Charity Christmas Cards at the Museum
• WEA Course at the Museum: English Canals
• Empire Soldiers VR – Workshop KS4 (Years 10 & 11)
• Empire Soldiers VR – Performances
• Fun Fundraising Quiz Night
• Fun Quiz Night
• Fun Quiz Night
• Fun Quiz Night
• The Great War in Wiltshire Conference – 2018
• Art Auction
• Art Course: Drawing on the Ancient Past with artist Helen Garrett
• Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning (and afternoon!)
• February Holiday Activities
• Halloween Holiday Activities
• Halloween Holiday Activities
• Halloween Holiday Activities
• Halloween Holiday Activities
• Coffee, Cake & Chat with John Girvan
• Lecture “From Roman Civitas to Anglo-Saxon Shire” by Bruce Eagles, Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University
• EVENING COURSE: Britain’s Cold War – ‘The Dangerous Decades’ by Dr Bob Clarke
• Children’s Arts Award ‘Discover’ in a Day
• Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea
• Lecture: Return to the Antikythera by Phil Short
• Lecture: Recovering Lost Music of Medieval Wiltshire by Graham Bathe
• Lecture: the Scandinavian Flint Axe Type in Britain by Dr Katharine Walker
• Lecture: The South Wiltshire Roman Temple and an update on fieldwork in the Verlucio area by Dr David Roberts
• Summer Holiday Activities 2019
• Summer Holiday Activities – Snakes and the Rain Forest
• Summer Holiday Activities – Prehistoric Sea Monsters
• Summer Holiday Activities – Pirates and the Sea
• Summer Holiday Activities – Pirates and the Sea
• Summer Holiday Activities – Tudor Crafts
• Summer Holiday Activities – Tudor Crafts
• Bank Holiday Opening – Monday 29 August
• Bank Holiday Opening Monday 27 August
• Axe Casting Workshop with James Dilley
• Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea
• Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea
• Free Lecture: Compassion in Crisis – 80 years of the Royal Voluntary Service by Matthew McMurray
• Free Lecture: the WRVS in Devizes during World War II by David Dawson
• Devizes Castle Garden Tours
• Devizes Castle Garden Tour
• Devizes Castle Garden Tour
• Devizes Castle Garden Tours
• Devizes Castle Garden Tours
• Stonehenge Landscape Walk
• Walk : Pewsey Vale and Marden Henge
• Walk : Stonehenge Landscape – cancelled
• Young WANHS: World Heritage Day
• Bank Holiday Monday 28 May – Opening Times
• Bank Holiday Monday 7 May – Opening Times
• Children’s Holiday Craft Activities
• Children’s Holiday Craft Activities
• 4 April – Fully Booked – Holiday Activities
• Holiday Craft Activities – Amazing Art!
• Holiday Craft Activities – Amazing Art!
• Holiday Craft Activities – Amazing Art!
• Holiday Craft Activities – Amazing Art!
• 4 April – Fully Booked – Holiday Activities
• Early Man comes to the Wiltshire Museum!
• Easter Opening Times
• World Heritage Family Day – free children’s activities
• Young WANHS: Archaeological Discoveries
• Young WANHS – Great Bustards and wildlife in Wiltshire
• Young WANHS – ‘Dyeing to meet you!’
• Young WANHS – Christmas Through the Ages
• Young WANHS – Aztec Discoveries
• Young WANHS
• Young WANHS
• Young WANHS: Inspired by Civilisations – Romans
• Young WANHS: Geology
• Coffee, Cake & Chat (postponed)
• Lecture: Curating ‘Feast! Food at Stonehenge’ by Susan Greaney
• Lecture: The Calne Fates by Reverend Professor Martin Henig
• Lecture: Salisbury Cathedral Archive: from Medieval to modern by Emily Naish
• February Half Term Holiday Activities: Vikings
• February Half Term Holiday Activities: Vikings
• February Half Term Holiday Activities: Vikings
• Lecture: Stonehenge The story so far by Julian Richards – 2 tickets available
• February Half Term Holiday Activities: Vikings
• Prehistory Evening Class Course with Bob Clarke
• Lecture: Cat’s Brain – a Neolithic ‘house of the dead’ by Dr Jim Leary
• Lecture: Cat’s Brain – a Neolithic ‘house of the dead’ by Jim Leary
• Christmas Winter Warmer at the Museum
• Twelfth Night Revels at the Museum *Fully booked*
• Young WANHS: WW1 American Propaganda Posters
• #ThanksToYou – free entry for National Lottery players
• #ThanksToYou – free entry for National Lottery players
• #ThanksToYou – free entry for National Lottery players
• Winter Opening Times (closed Sundays & Mondays)
• Lantern Making Workshop
• Lantern Making Workshop
• Lantern Making Workshop
• Lantern Making Workshop
• Members Tour of the Museum
• Members Tour of the Museum (moved from 28 April)
• Members Tour of the Museum
• Members Tour of the Museum
• AGM of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
• Book Sale
• YOUNG WANHS: Traditional Christmas Party
• YOUNG WANHS: Egyptian Discoveries
• YOUNG WANHS: Post Excavation Session
• Coffee, Cake & Chat
• Art Film Screen Screening: SPOIL HEAP
• Coffee, Cake & Chat
• Coffee, Cake & Chat
• Macmillan Coffee Morning
• Pimms Party & Auction
• Fun Quiz Night at the Museum
• Heritage Open Day
• Heritage Open Day
• Lecture ‘The Winds and Words of War: WWI Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection’
• TOUR: EXCAVATING A NEOLITHIC HENGE – Marden Henge and the Wiltshire Museum
• TOUR: EXCAVATING A NEOLITHIC HENGE – Marden Henge and the Wiltshire Museum
• LECTURE: Bronze Age amber spacer artefacts in Britain & Europe
• LECTURE: Wor Barrow with Dr Mike Allen
• LECTURE: A Medieval Guide to Sex
• LECTURE: The Making of Prehistoric Wiltshire
• Half-Term Holiday Activities: Dinosaurs
• Half-Term Holiday Activities: Dinosaurs
• Half-Term Holiday Activities: Dinosaurs
• Half-Term Holiday Activities: Dinosaurs
• Walking the Dead: Stonehenge Landscape Walk