What's on?

There are several catagories of event to chose from. Use the booking enquiry form to find out more.

It is always worth contacting the Museum for up-to-the-minute additions to the programme.

For information about other activities in the Salisbury area, visit Salisbury & Stonehenge , the official tourism website for Salisbury & Stonehenge.

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Antiquarianism to Archaeology: General Pitt Rivers and his contemporaries
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 14 October, 2008
A lecture by Mark Bowden, Archaeological Survey Department, English Heritage. Mark will be examining the General’s contribution to the development of archaeology as a discipline, i...
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The Stonehenge Riverside Project – Update
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 11 November, 2008
A popular talk by Professor Mike Parker-Pearson, University of Sheffield, on the excavations in and around Stonehenge and the latest results from fieldwork on site this summer. ...
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Antiquaries, Art Historians and Archaeologists at Clarendon Palace
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 09 December, 2008
A lecture by Professor Tom Beaumont James, University of Winchester
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Inspired by Stonehenge
Saturday, 14 June, 2008
This summer Salisbury Museum is joining forces with archaeologist Julian Richards to produce a truly inspirational exhibition about Stonehenge. Using a wide range of original artefacts, graphics, musi...
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Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707 – 2007
Saturday, 04 October, 2008
4 October 2008 - 3 January 2009
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Souvenirs of Stonehenge - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 09 September, 2008
A lecture by Julian Richards, writer and broadcaster
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Guided Tours
2:00 pm, Wednesday, 04 June, 2008
Wednesdays at 2pm. June to September 2008. Discover the history and archaeology of Salisbury and Stonehenge in this guided tour of the King’s House, a wonderful medieval building set in the Cat...
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Matters of Life and Death
Saturday, 18 October, 2008
Saturday 18 October 2008 - Saturday 10 January 2009. In the year that the NHS reaches its 60th birthday, Salisbury Museum looks at local health care from prehistory to the present day.
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Remembered: places and people remembered through paint: Wiltshire College Fine Art exhibition
Saturday, 28 June, 2008
Saturday 28 June – Saturday 16 August 2008
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Root & Branch: Wiltshire College Fine Art exhibition
Saturday, 23 August, 2008
Saturday 23 August – Saturday 11 October 2008
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Siegfried Sassoon, a talk by Dennis Silk CBE
6:30 pm, Wednesday, 15 October, 2008
Dennis Silk CBE, former Warden of Radley College and also former Chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board will talk about the distinguished author and poet. Mr Silk was a close f...
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People in the Roman World, a course by Nick Griffiths
10:30 am, Wednesday, 01 October, 2008
This year’s course will look at the day-to-day lives of the ordinary people (soldiers, farmers, actors, among others!) who made up the Roman Empire. During the course we will look at and use contempor...
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Grave Concerns - Archaeological Science as Forensic Science
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 13 January, 2009
A lecture by Paul N. Cheetham, Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science, Bournemouth University. Archaeology and a criminal investigation both seek to reconstruct past events from...
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Collingbourne Ducis and its place in early Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire
7:30 pm, Tuesday, 10 March, 2009
A lecture by Dr Nick Stoodley, Winchester University. The cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis was first investigated in 1974-5 when 36 inhumations (burials) were recovered. Recently i...
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Create Your Own Stonehenge Sculpture
10:00 am, Wednesday, 20 August, 2008
Wednesday 20th August 2008. 10.00 - 11.30, 12.00 - 1.30 and 2.30 - 4.00. Workshop, suitable for children over 5.
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Interactive Family Tours of the Museum
10:30 am, Wednesday, 30 July, 2008
Wednesday 30th July, Wednesday 13th August and Wednesday 27th August. 10.30am – 12.00pm. Discover the weird and wonderful, handle real artefacts, try on costumes and make your own old fashioned t...
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Family creative workshops
10:30 am, Tuesday, 05 August, 2008
Every Tuesday in August 2008. 10.30-12.00.
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Awesome Archaeology Trail
Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
Discover some of the amazing things that have been found around Salisbury. Available from Museum reception until 31 August 2008. No additional charge.
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The Antiquarian Endeavour, a talk by David Starkey CBE FSA
7:30 pm, Thursday, 09 October, 2008
The celebrated historian and broadcaster Dr David Starkey will trace the story of antiquarian study from the foundation of the Society of Antiquaries in the eighteenth century to the ...
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Heritage Open Days: Guided Tours
2:00 pm, Thursday, 11 September, 2008
Thursday 11 September, Friday 12 September, and Saturday 13 September at 2pm. FREE OF CHARGE, the Heritage Open Days Guided Tours are a wonderful opportunity to discover Salisbury & South Wiltshire...
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