Inspirational wessex women
Objects on Tour: Wessex Women
Our four partner museums have explored their collections and found objects that tell the untold stories of our region’s women and their past – from the unexpected to the ground-breaking and intriguing. These objects will be travelling between the 4 Museums until October 2020.
The four items touring at present are:
- Iron Age Pots discovered by archaeologist Maud Cunnington, from Wiltshire Museum
- Downton Lace Pillow, from Salisbury Museum
- Purbeck Stone Carvings by Elizabeth Muntz, from Dorset County Museum
- Granny Cousin’s Lantern and Bonnet, a Victorian “Knocker-upper”, from Poole Museum
If you have membership to any of the Wessex Museum Partnership Museums you have free entry to each Museum.
Wessex Museums comprises 4 Museums in our region, Dorset County, Poole, Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum, working together to tell the story of Dorset and Wiltshire. The aim is to share knowledge, artefacts and skills to a wider audience exploring the stories of Wessex and encouraging the communities around each museum to be involved and contribute.
School medal awarded at Frances Elliott’s School for Young Ladies
Silver school prize medal inscribed Mrs Elliott’s Ladies Boarding School, Devizes on one side and A Reward of Merit from Mr Burgess, teacher of dancing to Miss Clark, 12th June 1822. Frances Elliott (1782 – 1860) was a governess and teacher, running schools for young
Portrait of Peggy Piggott (Peggy Guido) by Frank Griffith
Portrait of Peggy Piggott by Frank Griffith (1889-1979), painted in c.1938. Peggy Guido was President of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, jointly with the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, her former husband. Peggy was a leading archaeologist, excavating many prehistoric sites in Wiltshire and beyond