Galleries

The Salisbury Museum

The museum tells the story of Salisbury and the surrounding area – a unique landscape which has been the cradle of continuous human achievement for over half a million years.

With galleries devoted to archaeology, the history of Salisbury, ceramics and natural history, there’s something for everyone.

Wessex Gallery

The Wessex Gallery offers a journey back in time from the medieval period to half a million years ago. See the nationally important finds from Stonehenge and Old Sarum. Find out about Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900) and the birth of archaeology. Meet the ancestors, including the Amesbury Archer, who lived 4,300 years ago.

NEW Devenish Bradshaw Salisbury Gallery

The story of Salisbury from medieval times to the present day. Discover the ‘Drainage Collection’, a group of everyday objects found in the open sewers which once flowed through the streets of Salisbury. Encounter St Christopher – Britain’s oldest surviving medieval giant. Displays also include the Scout Motor car and artefacts from both world wars, reflecting Salisbury’s recent past.

NEW Potted History of Britain

The story of 6,000 years of ceramics, from prehistory to the present. Useful, fragile, sometimes plain, sometimes decorative ceramics are part of our everyday life. Today most of us will eat off a china plate, drink from a pottery cup or mug, wash at a hand basin and sit on a toilet. This gallery looks at our shared potted history!

NEW Natural History

Fossils, plant specimens and taxidermy reveal the natural history of the Salisbury area from millions of years ago to the present day. This gallery shows how natural events in the past had a huge impact on the flora and fauna living in the region but more recently human intervention is driving changes to the environment.