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On the lookout for Mother's Day gifts to recommend to my grandsons. These smashing coasters are available at Wiltshire Museum. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
John Piper in the South Country is now open at Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social until 6 June 2026.
Guest curator: Andrew Lambirth
This Wessex Museums exhibition has been made possible with support from @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.
wessexmuseums.org.uk/our-work/exh...
Three women wearing dark sunglasses stood in a wheat field
Three women arms around one another sat at the edge of a wheat field
Six women on deck chairs posing for the camera with mugs of hot drinks
Two women, one with her arm around the other leant up against a carriage smiling for the camera
To celebrate International Women's Day, we thought we would share some photos that came into our collection last year of The Women's Land Army. During the Second World War, Joan Miles and her friends worked at Arches Farm, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in an effort to help the Home Front.
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating women in art! Our newly redisplayed permanent art galleries showcase the talents of Amy-Jane Blackhall of Ink on Paper Press & ceramicist Jo Taylor.
📅 Now open
🕒 Monday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
🎟️ Free entry
Enjoy these sneak peeks of the displays!
The Women's Land Army (W.L.A) was initially formed during the First World War to encourage women into agricultural work when the men were called into the Military. By 1943, there was over 80,000 women in service as Land Girls with others working in factories to help the war effort.
Three women wearing dark sunglasses stood in a wheat field
Three women arms around one another sat at the edge of a wheat field
Six women on deck chairs posing for the camera with mugs of hot drinks
Two women, one with her arm around the other leant up against a carriage smiling for the camera
To celebrate International Women's Day, we thought we would share some photos that came into our collection last year of The Women's Land Army. During the Second World War, Joan Miles and her friends worked at Arches Farm, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in an effort to help the Home Front.
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/item-record/...
I wonder if we have one well known example in our collection...
This story appears firmly bedded in popular culture now, it has again circulated globally before arriving in the local newspaper. And as the reports continue to mention UWE alongside my name I get an approving nod from the press office. www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/2589709...
Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
Our Director has ended up on the steering group after this project in the South West - seeingthelightofday.wordpress.com
I am sure that you know about this - historicengland.org.uk/research/sup...
Involved Society for Museum Archaeology amongst other sector bodies.
side and front profile of golden coloured ring with centre green stones
This #findsfriday we have a Roman green gem-set gold finger-ring, dating to the 3rd century AD, found in Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, 2013.
search more of our collections here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/search-the-c...
#ComingSoon, our latest #PartnershipPublication with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
We’re launching this in two weeks time on 12 March, and Chippenham, Our History will for a prelude to the #BigRedBook out later this year.
#Skystorians
And read the full story of the Wiltshire Thatcher at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
You can buy an A4 print form our shop for £4.99. What a bargain!
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/product/wilt...
Rare print of Wiltshire Thatcher image that was on the cover of Led Zep IV sells for £16,000.
ledzepnews.com/2026/02/25/a...
Antiquarian inked drawing of 3 men with horses approaching a set of circular earthworks with a cathedral and castle in the far distance
Antiquarian William Stukeley visited Chlorus Camp hillfort (now known as Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire in 1723
His drawing shows an open landscape with Old Sarum castle / hillfort and Salisbury cathedral in the distance as well as 3 tricorn-wearing, horse riding gents on a day out
#HillfortsWednesday
Congratulations!
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Oval macehead of multiple angles. Brown in colour with hole in centre
Green discolouration to show bronze presence on circular brown masehead
This #findsfriday we have polished oval macehead of limestone containing the fossil stromatoporoid (A shallow marine sponge). Containing traces of bronze, it found with a primary male inhumation in Bowl Barrow Wilsford G5, excavated by William Cunnington in 1808.
Exciting news! 🎨
For the first time in 200 years, John Constable’s 'A View of Salisbury from Harnham' will go on public display at The Salisbury Museum.
It is on long term loan from a private collection and will be displayed from June 2026, marking the artist’s 250th anniversary.
Brian is big in Japan!
This talk is by the *other* David Dawson - the one with the beard...
Card with church in centre and dried flowers and lace envelope with red stamp
In celebration of Valentines day, here is one of our valentine cards from #outofthearchive. This card was sent Thomas Kemm at Manor House, Avebury, Wiltshire in 1866.
The front of the card reads "Affections Offering. ... I feel for thee alone. By then wilt thou be my own."
Two brown bird shaped buckles with holes through centre
This #findsfriday we have 2 delicate bronze bird-shaped ornaments, perhaps shoe buckles, locality unknown.
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There will! Written by exhibition curator Andrew Lambirth and fully illustrated. 😊