Major grant received for LGBTQIA+ community project!
Wiltshire Museum has received £16,574 from the National Lottery Community Fund for an exciting LGBTQIA+ community project, the Queer in Wiltshire project. The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the
A Museum volunteer opened the scrapbook by chance …
An Article in the 17 March 2023 edition of the Friend is about a rare document discovered in the Archive and Library collection by pure chance On 29 September 1699 two Quakers married in Bath: Thomas Rose and Mary Fry. In 1861 their marriage certificate was sent to William Cunnington,
Major exhibition of Thomas Hardy objects opens to the public at Wiltshire Museum
The largest collection of Thomas Hardy objects ever displayed at one time opens this week (28 May). Hardy’s Wessex: The Landscapes that Inspired a Writer is a ground-breaking exhibition which spans four museums in Wiltshire and Dorset, including Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. Across the four venues, the exhibition tells the
New Exhibition: Wiltshire Remembers: Aftermath of the First World War
An exhibition to commemorate the end of the First World War, and how the individuals who did not come home were remembered, opens at Wiltshire Museum on 21 October 2018. Curated by local historian, Richard Broadhead, the exhibition will include a Wall of Remembrance for the 10,000 who are on