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)
Artwork by Louise Rolt MA Royal College of Art
Local artist Louise Rolt graduated with an MA in Constructed Textiles from the Royal College of Art in 2003, and in the same year won a scholarship to travel to Nepal to work on a project in the foothills of the Himalayas, an experience which sparked her passion for teaching
Votes for Women! Celebrating Then and Now
A colourful display combining new research about the brave women in Devizes who campaigned for the vote, with fabulous banners made by community groups in 2018, the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK, on display in the Museum between 2 and 24 February. On show will be fresh information
INTERPRETATION & EXPRESSION: ARCHAEOLOGY & ART – Peter Dunn
Sketches and paintings produced over the past 10 years by Peter Dunn archaeological reconstruction artist, whilst working in the UK and overseas. Items from the Museums art collection are also on display, including Sentinel, from Henry Moore’s Stonehenge suite of lithographs, Avebury Restored by John Martin and works by David
THE BLACKSMITHS CRAFT by John Girvan
Exhibition of rural traditional art (and some not-so-traditional!)* made by local blacksmith John Girvan in his forge in Devizes. The larger items featured in the displays are more than two metres high and include a handcrafted lily, an alien figure and a huge Trilapod (three-legged spider)! Smaller items are a
The Winds and Words of War: Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library
The San Antonio Public Library and San Antonio Public Library Foundation own a collection of WW1 propaganda prints and posters, which are on a two-year tour of Europe. Wiltshire Museum is the only UK exhibition venue for this collection, which will be on display in Devizes from 18th November 2017
Compassion in Crisis: 80 Years of the Royal Voluntary Service
In 1938 Stella Reading and her million ‘women in green’ revolutionised the way the world thought about voluntary service. During the Second World War these women of the WVS volunteered to help on the Home Front providing compassion in crisis, to anyone who needed it. This is the story of
Telling Wiltshire’s Story: 30 Years of Support from Art Fund
Over the last 30 years, Art Fund has generously contributed £50,000 to help purchase many important acquisitions for the Wiltshire Museum. The exhibition celebrates this support by displaying an eclectic mix of art and artefacts such as depictions of Wiltshire landmarks and landscapes, a Roman coin hoard, a collection of
SPOIL HEAP
SPOIL HEAP is an exhibition that re-imagines, re-appropriates and re-positions archaeology and art. Experience a diverse collection of art pieces which range from installations that embody the henge to scanning technologies that investigate textural qualities of excavated matter. Immerse yourself in revived pagan rituals, reworked manual tools and contemporary artifacts
Devizes Camera Club Biennial Print Exhibition 2017
The Devizes Camera Club biennial print exhibition will be on show in the Oexmann Art Gallery from 11 September until 8 October. Featuring photographs taken by members of the Devizes Camera Club, the exhibition will be formally opened on Sunday 10 September by the Mayor of Devizes. Judging for the