Visit Stonehenge for a family activity filled walk around the
landscape led by the National Trust.
Explore the monuments, barrows and wildlife with archaeological and nature
related activities along the way.
Meet at the Stonehenge car park at
10am.
Booking Essential.
Contact the Education Officer at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 01380 727369
* Send
her an e-mail.
Friday, 27 July 2012
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Priests House Museum - President's Summer Fete
The museum invites you to its President’s Summer Fete on Saturday 4 August, 10 to 4.30. Admission is just 50p while accompanied children under 18 get in for free.
There will be a whole range of stalls for you to browse: collectables, cakes, books, linens, bric-a-brac, plants and produce, music, bottle stall, jewellery, and much more. The raffle will feature a host of wonderful prizes. The lucky dip and other games will entertain children and all those young at heart! Teas, ice creams and delicious homemade cakes will be available from the new garden tearoom.
Everyone is welcome in the museum garden for a wonderful day and the odd bargain or two. Entrance is by Wimborne library or through the museum shop.
See here for more information http://www.priest-house.co.uk/news.php
There will be a whole range of stalls for you to browse: collectables, cakes, books, linens, bric-a-brac, plants and produce, music, bottle stall, jewellery, and much more. The raffle will feature a host of wonderful prizes. The lucky dip and other games will entertain children and all those young at heart! Teas, ice creams and delicious homemade cakes will be available from the new garden tearoom.
Everyone is welcome in the museum garden for a wonderful day and the odd bargain or two. Entrance is by Wimborne library or through the museum shop.
See here for more information http://www.priest-house.co.uk/news.php
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Wiltshire Councils Archaeology Team discusses their Monument Management Scheme
Check out the blog post on the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre website on the Wiltshire Council Monument Management Scheme.
http://www.wshc.eu/blog/minding-wiltshires-monuments.html
The Wiltshire Council Archaeology team are involved with a number of Monument Management Schemes (MMS) each year. These schemes are joint ventures with English Heritage (using matched funding). Each scheme looks at a Scheduled Monument that is considered to be ‘at risk’ and works are then undertaken to reduce the damage or risk to the monument.
http://www.wshc.eu/blog/minding-wiltshires-monuments.html
The Wiltshire Council Archaeology team are involved with a number of Monument Management Schemes (MMS) each year. These schemes are joint ventures with English Heritage (using matched funding). Each scheme looks at a Scheduled Monument that is considered to be ‘at risk’ and works are then undertaken to reduce the damage or risk to the monument.
Monday, 23 July 2012
Lecture at Wiltshire Heritage Museum The Medieval Beginnings of Devizes 26.07.12
The Medieval Beginnings
of Devizes: Demolishing a Myth
An evening lecture by Tim Tatton Brown on Thursday 26 July at 7.30pm.
The story of how the town grew and prospered was first told over 100 years ago but Tim has reviewed the evidence to tell a very different story.
More information on the Devizes Museum website
Tickets cost £8 and are available from the Museum shop.
An evening lecture by Tim Tatton Brown on Thursday 26 July at 7.30pm.
The story of how the town grew and prospered was first told over 100 years ago but Tim has reviewed the evidence to tell a very different story.
More information on the Devizes Museum website
Tickets cost £8 and are available from the Museum shop.
Friday, 20 July 2012
Opportunity to visit Art collections at Longford Castle with the National Portrait Gallery
Situated near Salisbury in Wiltshire, with the River Avon running through its grounds and home to the Earls of Radnor for generations, Longford Castle is one of the most magnificent of all English country houses.
Longford Castle will be open, for the first time on a regular basis, to visitors from Summer 2012. Tickets are being sold through the National Gallery (on behalf of the Estate) which has long enjoyed a special relationship with Longford Castle. Several masterpieces from Longford are on display at the National Gallery and others (including Holbein’s Ambassadors) were once part of the Longford Castle collection.
See http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/longford-castle for more information.
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Festival for British Archaeology - Visit the Cranborne Chase
Wed 25 July; 10.00-16.00
Visit the archaeological sites on Cranborne Chase including the Ackling Dyke, Bokerley Dyke, Dorset Cursus and Oakley Down barrows. £7.00 museum members, £8.00 non-museum members
Location: The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EN.
Org: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Name: Adrian Green
Tel: 01722 332151
Email: museum@salisburymuseum.org.uk
Web: www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
Monday, 16 July 2012
Work starts on new £27m faciltities at Stonehenge
As reported in the Heritage Alliance Update
"After nearly 30 years of talking and fundraising, work to return Stonehenge to a more tranquil setting and improve its visitor facilities finally began on Wednesday (11 July).
English Heritage confirms contractor VINCI Construction UK has taken possession of the site at Airman’s Corner, 1.5 miles to the west of the stones, to start construction of the new exhibition and visitor building out of sight of the stone circle. In September, the Highways Agency will start work to upgrade Longbarrow Roundabout prior to the closure of the A344 in April 2013.
The £27-million project has been developed by English Heritage with the support of the National Trust, Wiltshire Council, the Highways Agency, and Natural England. It is financed almost entirely by Heritage Lottery Fund money, commercial income and philanthropic donations including significant gifts from the Garfield Weston Foundation, Linbury Trust and the Wolfson Foundation. There's just £500,000 left to raise, English Heritage has confirmed.
The Stonehenge project will be completed in two phases: in autumn 2013 the new visitor facilities and galleries will open and the A344 will be closed to traffic. By summer 2014 the existing car park, toilets, shop and fencing near the stones will have been removed and restoration of the landscape will be well underway. Click here for the full press release."
"After nearly 30 years of talking and fundraising, work to return Stonehenge to a more tranquil setting and improve its visitor facilities finally began on Wednesday (11 July).
English Heritage confirms contractor VINCI Construction UK has taken possession of the site at Airman’s Corner, 1.5 miles to the west of the stones, to start construction of the new exhibition and visitor building out of sight of the stone circle. In September, the Highways Agency will start work to upgrade Longbarrow Roundabout prior to the closure of the A344 in April 2013.
The £27-million project has been developed by English Heritage with the support of the National Trust, Wiltshire Council, the Highways Agency, and Natural England. It is financed almost entirely by Heritage Lottery Fund money, commercial income and philanthropic donations including significant gifts from the Garfield Weston Foundation, Linbury Trust and the Wolfson Foundation. There's just £500,000 left to raise, English Heritage has confirmed.
The Stonehenge project will be completed in two phases: in autumn 2013 the new visitor facilities and galleries will open and the A344 will be closed to traffic. By summer 2014 the existing car park, toilets, shop and fencing near the stones will have been removed and restoration of the landscape will be well underway. Click here for the full press release."
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