Archived events
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Lecture: Eric Ravilious: White Horses and the ‘lost’ Puffin picture book by Joe Pearson, Design for Today
SOLD OUT. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list - hello@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk. Eric Ravilious was commissioned to create a…
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Young WANHS – Sssnakes …
Activities linked to our Snakes exhibition - trail, quizzes and art based activities. Young WANHS is our Saturday morning club for 7-14 year olds interested…
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February Holiday Activities
Wildlife in Wiltshire Art and Craft activities linked to our Natural History Exhibition. Make animal masks, create animal models and pictures Tuesday 19 February -…
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Lecture: Raising the Lacock Cup: making a replica using medieval silver-smithing techniques by Mike Neilson , British Museum
Mike Neilson has been making a replica of the Lacock Cup for the Museum. He will talk about the details that he has uncovered about…
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Young WANHS – Great Bustards and wildlife in Wiltshire
The Great Bustard Group will be coming to the session to talk to us about these birds and how they are being reintroduced in the…
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Lecture: Wessex and Mycenae: old finds and new insights by Ken Wardle, University of Birmingham
SOLD OUT * Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list - 01380 727369 It was over 100 years…
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Art Course: Drawing on the Ancient Past with artist Helen Garrett
* SOLD OUT * If you would like to be added to the waiting list please contact hello@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk Eight week course with artist Helen Garrett,…
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Young WANHS – ‘Dyeing to meet you!’
*POSTPONED*. Due to ill health we have had to postpone this workshop. We will advise the new date as soon as possible. How did people…
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Young WANHS – Christmas Through the Ages
Come and join the fun! Find out about Christmas and winter celebrations, create traditional decorations and cards. Plus party food and music. Online booking has…
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Lecture: Return to the Antikythera by Phil Short
Online booking has now closed - a few tickets are available on the door. Since 2012 Dr. Brendan Foley of Lund University Sweden and his…
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The Great War in Wiltshire Conference – 2018
The Conference showcased recent research marking the centenary of the First World War. Many of the presentations are now available to download as PDF files.…
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Lantern Making Workshop
Drop in session at the Museum hosted by DOCA: Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts Open to all, with materials provided. FREE. Donations welcome. Find out more…
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Lecture: Recovering Lost Music of Medieval Wiltshire by Graham Bathe
ONLINE BOOKING HAS NOW CLOSED. Tickets are still available on the door. A detective story unravelling how early medieval musical manuscripts became used as covers…
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Devizes in Focus Presentation Evening
The Devizes in Focus book set a challenging photographic treasure hunt in search of the subjects of Andy Rose’s atmospheric black-and-white photographs. These included close-ups…
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Lantern Making Workshop
Drop in session at the Museum hosted by DOCA: Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts Open to all, with materials provided. FREE. Donations welcome. Find out more…
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The Secrets Within the Earth: Workshop
An exciting workshop with Face in the Trees - www.facebook.com/faceinthetrees A collaboration between three people, a student of folklore, an artist and a storyteller. Where…
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Fun Quiz Night
All tickets sold out for the Quiz. We are running a waiting list. Fun Quiz organised by Philippa Morgan and Mary Rennie. Prizes to be…
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Lecture: the Scandinavian Flint Axe Type in Britain by Dr Katharine Walker
Online booking has now closed. A few tickets will be available on the door. Neolithic connections between Scandinavia and Britain have been largely dismissed in…
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Young WANHS – Aztec Discoveries
Online booking has now closed. Contact Ali Rushent - education@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk, if you would like to reserve a place and pay tomorrow. Young WANHS is our…
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Members Tour of the Museum with David Dawson
Members of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society are invited to come on one of our special tours of Wiltshire Museum, led by Director,…
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The Flickering Light – An Evening of Archive Film featuring Wiltshire, WW1 and the decades after the Armistice
Online booking has now closed. Tickets will be available on the door. Windrose Rural Media Trust brings its collection of popular archive films to Devizes…
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Lantern Making Workshop
Drop in session at the Museum hosted by DOCA: Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts Open to all, with materials provided. FREE. Donations welcome. Find out more…
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Museum at Night
An evening of mysterious, spooky, weird and wonderful objects and stories. Make potions and your very own gargoyle. Suitable for ages 8-14. Numbers limited so…
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Halloween Devizes Ghost Walk with John Girvan
A Ghost Walk organised and led by John Girvan - www.devizestours.co.uk Meet in the Market Place at 7.30pm. Bookings via the Museum Shop 01380…
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Halloween Holiday Activities
Spiders, Witches & Potions! Making spiders and webs; potion experiments (plus your own to take home); luminous pictures. Tuesday 30 October & Wednesday 31 October…