New Year's Day closure

We are now not able to open on Saturday 1 January as previously advertised. We are, however, open on Sunday 2 January and Monday 3 January noon to 4pm.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

from all the staff, trustees and volunteers at Wiltshire Heritage Museum. We do hope you will be able to come and visit us during 2011.

Opening Hours

The Museum is open Tuesday 28 December noon to 4pm and throughout the remainder of the holiday period. Should we have to close due to adverse weather conditions we will post an item in the blog.

White Horses & Hill Figures

The originals might be covered in snow but why not bring visiting friends and relatives to the Museum to see how they should look!

Came earlier in the year? New items were added to the exhibition during November - check the What's On page of the website for details - http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/index.php?Action=2&thID=512&prev=1

Wed 22 December - Library closed

The Museum is open as normal, but because of poor travelling conditions, the Library will not be open today. The Library shold be open tomorrow as normal.

Monday 20 December - Museum open as normal

The Museum is open as normal today, and the Christmas Craft Workshop is starting at 11!

Sunday 19 Dec - Museum open

The museum will be open from 12 on Sunday 19 Dec. Lots of gift ideas and our White Horses exhibition! We may, however, close early.

Saturday 18 December - Museum Closed

Due to the snow, the Museum will be closed on Saturday 18 December. YoungWANHS is also cancelled. We have now arranged a young wanhs fun session at 1.30pm on Tuesday afternoon with food, music and activities including candle painting and making crackers and traditional decorations.

We will continue to update the blog with details of museum opening during the cold weather.

Museum opening in bad weather

We will be updating this blog with details about our opening hours in the event of bad weather over the coming few days. Please check the website before travelling.

Archive and Library closed - afternoon of 17 December

Due to the bad weather, we will not be able to open the Archive and Library this afternoon. Our apologies.

Turn Back Time exhibition on BBC Radio Wiltshire

This morning, Ellie Pridgeon, our Archivist and Librarian, is on BBC Radio Wiltshire talking about our Turn Back Time exhibition. She will be talking about the images we have uploaded to the Flickr website and our plans to interview people. Find out more from our web page about the exhibition.