Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
The King's House
65 The Close
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 2EN
T: 01722 332151
- Antiquities
- Medieval objects
- Social history
- Costume and textiles
- Ceramics and glass
Art Fund Members - free entry and exhibitions
Housed in a Grade 1 Listed building, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is an award-winning museum. The archaeological collections cover all periods, and are especially significant for prehistory and the Middle Ages. Highlights include the only comprehensive exposition on Stonehenge and the Amesbury Archer, and the earliest gold object in England. The medieval finds from Clarendon Palace and Old Sarum are also a highlight. The Pitt Rivers gallery displays the Wessex collection of the ‘father of modern scientific archaeology’.
The museum also houses the Brixie Jarvis collection of Wedgwood, the Salisbury Giant, Turner watercolours of Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral, costume in period settings, a pre-NHS doctor's surgery, and one of the finest provincial ceramics collections in the country.
Facilities:
- Disabled Access
- Refreshments
- Shop
- Children's Events
- Baby Changing Facilities
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