Fashioning Our Future After School Sessions
Interested in clothing and fashion? Want to take part in a fashion show? As part of the Fashioning Our Future project at The Salisbury Museum, we are running free after-school sessions for 11 – 18 year olds! Participants will have the opportunity to: The sessions will run during term-time on Thursdays, from 24th April […]
Landscape Open 2025: At Salisbury Museum – Call for Entries
The Salisbury Museum is calling for entries for the Landscape Open at Salisbury, our new annual opportunity for artists working contemporaneously within the distinguished genre of landscape painting. The open call invites artists to submit work within the genre of Landscape, across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, moving image, textile, print […]
Sunday 16 March – Temporary Closure of the King’s Room and Natural History Gallery
The King’s Room Ceramics Gallery and Natural History Gallery will be closed to the public from 11:30am until the end of the day on Sunday 16 March for a private event. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Volunteer with us on the Fashioning Our Future Project
Fashioning Our Future is an exciting new project at The Salisbury Museum which will build on the innovative work we have been undertaking with our fashion collection and young people (aged 11 – 25) over the last few years. We are looking for volunteers who have a knowledge of fashion and textiles or fashion history, […]
Museum Achieves VisitEngland’s Gold Standard
Following a recent assessment, we are thrilled to announce that VisitEngland have awarded the museum with it’s highest accolade of Gold Standard. The Past Forward development project was a significant contributing factor to the decision, with the project cited as: ‘Transforming the museum into a ‘Gold’ standard ‘must-see’ attraction in Salisbury’. Further, the assessment concluded: […]
Funding success for The Salisbury Museum with Fashioning Our Future project
Today, The Salisbury Museum is announcing a £237,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the Fashioning Our Future project, enabling young people to share their own perspectives by co-curating fashion exhibitions to be displayed at The Salisbury Museum, Blandford Fashion Museum and Southampton City Art Gallery. Using money raised by National Lottery players, […]
Salisbury Museum is pleased to announce Michael Wade OBE as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees
Michael joins the museum at an exciting time. Over recent years we have been implementing a masterplan to transform The King’s House. Central to this has been the need to update our displays, improve our facilities and put the museum on a firm financial footing. On the 13 July 2024 the museum was successfully re-opened […]
Museum Project Shortlisted for Award
Fashioning Our World shortlisted for prize at the Museums Association Museums Change Lives Awards 2024 Over the course of two years, The Fashioning Our World project: Unpicking the Past to Thread Together the Future, discovered the hidden stories told by clothes and accessories in the past. The project worked in a collaborative way with young […]
New Galleries Now Open!
On Saturday 13th July, we opened our three new galleries to the public for the first time
Become a Trustee and help shape the future of The Salisbury Museum
The Salisbury Museum is seeking new trustees who have strong links to Salisbury and the south Wiltshire area and a love for culture and heritage. As a trustee, you will play an important part in ensuring that The Salisbury Museum fulfils its mission: to welcome, entertain and inspire our audiences. The Museum does this by […]