Wiltshire Heritage Museum has the best Bronze Age archaeology collections in the country. Contains discoveries from the World Heritage Sites of Stonehenge and Avebury.
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- Devizes, United Kingdom, SN10 2EB
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- 01380 727369
- Mon - Sat:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Sunday, November 8 at 2:00pm
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Our new exhibition, On the Home Front: Wiltshire in WW2, has been well and truly launched by Michael Ancram, our local MP. He particularly thanked Lisa, the Curator, for the fascinating exhibition, and said how the museum was a jewel for Devizes. We had over 200 people in the museum today!
Wiltshire Heritage Museum we should be on the Politics Show on BBC 2 on Sunday! They filmed an election poster and portrait as part of a background piece on the new Conservative candidate.
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Our WW2 exhibition opens on Sunday! We are featured in the Gazette - with a report on the great Family Day at the weekend, and also a full page feature about the exhibition. Hope lots of people come.
Source: www.gazetteandherald.co.uk
Children experienced what life was like during the Second World War at an event at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.
Wiltshire Heritage Museum November CILIP Update (the monthly magazine of the Chartered Institute of Library Professionals) has an article about our Google Books Digital Library :-)
Wiltshire Heritage Museum The BBC Politics Show are coming in later to film a coin in the collection that was struck in Marlborough. Part of a background piece on the Devizes Constituency - the Conservative Party has just chosen its new candidate - Claire Perry - who will be replacing Michael Ancram at the next election.
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Picture from our WW2 Family Day on the front page of the Gazette and Herald website
Source: www.gazetteandherald.co.uk
North Wiltshire & Kennet news, sport, leisure, classifieds and Information guides. news, sport & information guide
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Archaeology Field Group newsletters now available on AFG page
Source: www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk
Sat 31 October and Sunday 1 November, 10-4. See main section for details. Other dates will be added soon.NewslettersAFG newsletters are a 1 page update on the latest research carried out by the Field Group. ...
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Looking forward to the WW2 Family Day tomorrow!
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Our friends at Salisbury Museum have launched their new website! Looks great!
Source: www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC has linked to our Google Book library on his facebook account. Find out more from this link, and watch a YouTube video of Time Team's Phil Harding talking about our library.
Source: www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk
The Library at Wiltshire Heritage Museum, which has been growing for over one hundred and fifty years, contains much rare and unique material, such as the 1628 illuminated copy of the Devizes charters, ...
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Museum Family Day - On the Home Front: Wiltshire in WW2!
Source: www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk
There will be activities for all ages throughout the day. Visitors can have a go at 1940’s handicrafts, make a peg doll or peg soldier, make a toy aeroplane or make and decorate a gas mask box.Re-enactors will be in the galleries to talk to visitors. ...
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Web2.0 Training course hosted at the Museum. We are to be a case study!! Organised by UKOLN and the South Western Museums Federation.
Source: www.swfed.org.uk
The South Western Federation of Museums & Art Galleries
Luanne Faulknall
There's so much great information about the Wilshire Heritage Museum on the website. A lot of people use Wikipedia so maybe it would be worth expanding the Wikipedia article with more of it? There's no page on Wikipedia about the Upton Lovell excavations as far as I can see. Would also be good to create pages for excav...ations like these and link to the museum.
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Wiltshire Heritage Museum
An exhibition about life on the Wiltshire Home Front during World War II.
Focusing on Wiltshire the exhibition explores how the local civilian population dealt with the impact of another world war, just 20 years after the end of the first. Air raids, evacuations and the shortage of supplies all caused disruption and har...dship for the population. No one could escape the effects of the war and the threat of invasion and bombing whether on the front line or the home front.
From how the Home Guard was formed to defend the local population to rationing and the promotion of ‘dig for victory’ the exhibition looks at how those left on the home front dealt with the impact of the war. Women were encouraged to participate fully too, whether staying at home and ‘making do and mend’, taking up jobs in munitions factories or becoming a land girl. Children too were affected, not only with rationing, but directly through evacuation to safer areas such as Wiltshire. Around Wiltshire the military presence increased affecting the social life of the rural communities. Prisoners of War were also held in the county and their experiences will also be shown. Finally, as the war ended the exhibition will look at the celebrations held once victory in Europe was announced.
A large number of photographs will be included in the exhibition, including various Home Guard and ARP units in Wiltshire. There will be lots of period items displayed, including wartime ration books, recipes and cookery books, ARP, Home Guard and nurses uniforms, a nightdress made of parachute silk and gas masks. There will also be an oil painting by an Italian POW and three paintings by Mrs Doris Lloyd to sell for fundraising for the war effort in Yatton Keynell.
We are very grateful to Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum and Longleat for lending us items for this exhibition.
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Focusing on Wiltshire the exhibition explores how the local civilian population dealt with the impact of another world war, just 20 years after the end of the first. Air raids, evacuations and the shortage of supplies all caused disruption and har...dship for the population. No one could escape the effects of the war and the threat of invasion and bombing whether on the front line or the home front.
From how the Home Guard was formed to defend the local population to rationing and the promotion of ‘dig for victory’ the exhibition looks at how those left on the home front dealt with the impact of the war. Women were encouraged to participate fully too, whether staying at home and ‘making do and mend’, taking up jobs in munitions factories or becoming a land girl. Children too were affected, not only with rationing, but directly through evacuation to safer areas such as Wiltshire. Around Wiltshire the military presence increased affecting the social life of the rural communities. Prisoners of War were also held in the county and their experiences will also be shown. Finally, as the war ended the exhibition will look at the celebrations held once victory in Europe was announced.
A large number of photographs will be included in the exhibition, including various Home Guard and ARP units in Wiltshire. There will be lots of period items displayed, including wartime ration books, recipes and cookery books, ARP, Home Guard and nurses uniforms, a nightdress made of parachute silk and gas masks. There will also be an oil painting by an Italian POW and three paintings by Mrs Doris Lloyd to sell for fundraising for the war effort in Yatton Keynell.
We are very grateful to Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum and Longleat for lending us items for this exhibition.
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Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Talk by Ben Roberts of the British Museum this Saturday!
Source: www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk
About 4,500 years ago some inhabitants of Britain suddenly started wearing and being buried with jewellery. Subsequent centuries saw objects being fashioned out of amber, jet, gold, copper, bone and faience in a bewildering variety of forms. ...
