What's on
Festival of Archaeology 2024
Saturday, July 27, 2024
to Sunday, July 28, 2024
- Location: All MuseumMuseum Garden
- Donation entry all weekend
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No need to book
Are you ready? This year’s festival is all set to be the biggest we’ve had for years!
A packed showground with more on show than ever before goes alongside a demonstration marquee and talks in the museum’s new hall. All this in a newly refurbished museum with 3 new galleries and café!
Some of the things you will find at the festival…
Companions of the Long Bow ~ TWO Bird Experience ~ Council for British Archaeology ~ Wessex Archaeology ~ Ancient Wessex Network ~ Young Archaeology Club ~ Salisbury Cathedral Education ~Talk: Cerne Abbas Giant ~ Phil Harding flint knapping ~ Cotswold Archaeology ~ Wiltshire Museum ~ Talk: What was Stonehenge for? ~ Environmental Archaeology ~ Talk: Conserving the King’s House ~ Georgian Surgeon ~ Strange Old Things Mobile Museum ~ New Forest Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers ~ ~ English Heritage Stonehenge ~ College of Chivalry ~ Real Ale Bar ~ Museum Café ~Talk: Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon funerary landscape ~ Portable Antiquity Scheme ~Rockbourne Roman Villa ~ Maerefolk, Musicians ~ Avon Valley Archaeological Society ~ Family Art Workshop ~ Sarum HobNob Lacemakers ~ Oxbow Press book stall ~ Friends of Clarendon Palace ~ Archaeopress book stall ~ Damian Clarke, Historic Musician
Suitable for all ages.
Bring your children, bring your grandparents, bring your dog on a lead!
10am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday
