Exhibitions
Devizes Camera Club
An exhibition of works by members of Devizes Camera Club, on show at Wiltshire Museum between 1st and 28th September 2019. The exhibition will be open during normal Museum opening times - Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sundays noon to 4pm. Normal Museum admission charges apply. For more images - click on Gallery below. Main image - A Rabbit Before Me - by Robert Harvey BA ARPS EFIAP © Rainbow and Beech Clump…
Oexmann Art Award Competition and Exhibition 2019
What is the Oexmann Art Award Competition? The Wiltshire Museum has been holding the biennial Oexmann Art Award Competition and Exhibition since 1988, and it is now one of Wiltshire’s art community’s most important events. This year’s competition and exhibition marks the 16th biennial Oexmann Art Award, and is held in memory of the late Theophila Joan Oexmann (neé Copland-Griffiths), an artist raised in Potterne. The award was endowed by her husband Richard Oexmann in…
Wessex Museums: #WickedWessex Objects on Tour
#Wicked Wessex objects on tour 2018-2019 - grim and gruesome to strange and shocking! Our #WickedWessex item is now on view - with extra dressing appropriate to the season. Tread carefully as you pass through our Long Room gallery! (NB: no spiders were harmed in the creation of this exhibit) ‘Wicked Wessex’ is the theme of the latest objects tour by the Wessex Museums Partnership: Dorset County Museum, Poole Museum, The Salisbury Museum and Wiltshire…
Events
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Scanning the Past: 3D models of historic buildings, by Robin Ault
Robin trained and worked as an archaeologist for several years before joining the Downland Partnership over twenty years ago. The Downland partnership are one of…
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Lecture: Mapping Prehistory: OGS Crawford and the Origins of Wessex, by Martyn Barber
Before the 1920s, 'Wessex' generally referred either to the Ango-Saxon kingdom or the fictional setting of many of Thomas Hardy's best-known novels. By the mid-1930s…
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Young WANHS: Mini Curators
Find out about the Museum and create Museum displays. An Arts Award Explore session. Young WANHS is our Saturday morning club for 7-14 year olds…
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Lecture: Art UK: Democratising Access to the Nation’s Art, by Andrew Ellis
Director of Art UK since 2003, Andrew will give an illustrated talk about an ambitious project to catalogue and digitise the nation’s art collection from…