Reaching out to new and diverse audiences via our podcasts and online talks.
Working with university placement students How to build meaningful placements that benefit the museum and the student. Wessex Museums has provided six successful placements for
Creating the Thomas Hardy podcast series A series of podcasts designed to engage younger audiences with the Thomas Hardy exhibition. Interrogating Hardy is a series
Engaging student volunteers Over the last two years, the number of volunteers at Wiltshire Museum who are under 25 has increased from three percent of
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!