Poole Museum
The Salisbury Museum
Museum & Art Swindon
Wiltshire Museum
Folk arts and traditions are the artistic expressions curated by a community, for a community, and the Wessex region holds a rick folk heritage. Lost & Found aims to break down pre-conceptions of folk by rediscovering, reinterpreting and reconnecting people to folk heritage through the tangible objects in our museums’ collections and the intangible, through the living folk traditions of our region.
With support from Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, and Swire Charitable Trust, and working collaboratively with curators, folk experts, and local communities, we will research folk material and shed new light its significance to people and places today, paving the way for contemporary collecting and the co-creation of ‘new folk’, bed by our diverse local communities. The project will culminate in a touring exhibition to four of our partner museums, showcasing folk art and traditions of Wessex for audiences across the region and beyond.
Wessex Museums seeks creative collaborators for folk project. As part of the exhibition interpretation, Wessex Museums is commissioning a Musician/Composer and a Song map artist. Closing date: 28 May 2024.
Wessex Museums partners with Create Studios to capture film and photography for forthcoming project Lost & Found: Redefining the folk arts and traditions of Wessex.
Wessex Museums receives £61,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for project that will redefine Wessex folk arts and traditions.
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!