January 2023 Pictish Stones By Barbara Swann On the 25th January 2023, Friends committee member, Barbara Swann will talk to us about Pictish stones. The Pict people lived, for the most part, in eastern Scotland. Though they left no written…
2nd January 2023 A New Future for Apsley House? Last week, the Swindon Advertiser ran an article entitled 'Swindon Museum could become shops and restaurants under plans.' The article featured architect's impression of how the developer hopes to enhance the…
Starting with the complete flyer and then a breakdown of all talks and trips, above the outer part of the flyer, and below the inside. Tickets for talks can be obtained at the museum during opening hours, and also from…
Last week a small group of Friends visited the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, ideally placed about 5 minutes from the railway station. The last time we visited the history centre was back in February 2012 for a guided tour…
To mark the opening of the exhibition, Pop and Prosperity:1960s British Art from the Swindon Collection, we held an opening night, and also took the opportunity to introduce two new part time outreach workers at the museum and unveil a new painting we had…
Desmond Morris famous zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology, is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time. His Wikipedia entry mentions that he was born in Purton,…
The exhibition Angels, Buckets and Bells in the downstairs rooms at Swindon MAG is a creative response to St. Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze, one of Swindon’s most historic and beautiful buildings. The Grade 1 listed church was awarded funding from the National Lottery Heritage…
After six and a half years at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Curator Sophie Cummings has made a huge impact on the place, with regular changeovers of exhibitions both in the downstairs and upstairs galleries, there have been reasons for…
Having listed the top 10 posts of 2019, I thought I'd list the top 5 posts in the history of the blog. Coming in at number 1 is the post about Jon Ratcliffe's talk 'Unseen Swindon' at 538 page views,…
One of the delights of writing a blog is looking at the number of page views attained per post. It's hard to judge which posts will attract the most page views. It isn't necessarily a post which takes a long…