Constable and Salisbury is officially the most successful exhibition in the museum's history. The King’s House was visited by nearly 37,000 people since the exhibition opened on 20 May 2011 (which is 17,000 more than would visit in an average year).  Over 1,200 copies of the excellent catalogue, written by exhibition curator Tim Wilcox, have been sold – an average of nine copies per day. The extensive media coverage of the exhibition in the Times, Financial Times, Independent, Telegraph, Burlington Magazine, Apollo Magazine, The Spectator (to name but a few…) has never been achieved by before – and has raised the profile of the museum to an unprecedented level.

For many people who attended the Wilton House Supercars event on Sunday 14 August there was only one highlight – the Salisbury Scout Car – displayed as part of the launch of the museum’s fundraising campaign to buy the vehicle. One visitor remarked that if every person living in Salisbury gave the museum £1 to purchase the car; raising the £40,000 needed to save the Scout for Salisbury in its centenary year in 2012 would be simple.