Museum & Art Swindon (formerly Swindon Museum & Art Gallery) exists to help visitors and local communities discover its inspiring heritage and art collections.
The Museum holds objects dating from prehistory to the present, including collections in archaeology, geology, palaeontology, natural history, botany, Egyptology, and social history. Swindon’s Collection of Modern British Art is a collection of nationally-significant 20th century British art. The collection focuses on major artists and movements of 20th and 21st century British art.
While work on the new venue is underway visit their website for information on temporary exhibitions at various venues.
Perfume bottle by Grayson Perry From: Museum & Art Swindon An early work by renowned artist Grayson Perry, featuring a perfume bottle and four stoppers.
Highworth Roman Pot The Roman solution to keeping things cool From: Museum & Art Swindon This large Roman storage jar is 2-foot-high and nearly as
Lost & Found: Redefining the folk arts and traditions of Wessex Poole Museum The Salisbury Museum Museum & Art Swindon Wiltshire Museum Folk arts and
Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within Dorset Museum & Art Gallery Museum & Art Swindon The Salisbury Museum Supported by Wessex Museums, Dorset Museum &
Wessex Museums receives £61,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for project that will redefine Wessex folk arts and traditions.
Preparatory works start at the Civic Offices, which will make the building more accessible for Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.
In June, the staff of the seven partnership museums gathered at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway to celebrate the beginning of another
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!