Atwell Wilson Motor Museum Trust
Downside, Stockley Lane
Calne SN11 0NF
Although the majority of the collection is cars, the museum also houses an impressive collection of lorries, motorcycles, mopeds, push bikes, and a large selection of vehicle manuals and other archive material, and a large collection of motor memorabilia.
Cricklade Museum
16 Calcutt Street
Cricklade SN6 6BD
Cricklade Museum is home to a local collection including material on social and family history, Roman occupation, Saxon times, rotten borough elections and World War II. There is also an archive of 3000 photographs.
English Heritage National Monuments Record
Swindon SN2 2EH
The National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage, holds over 12 million photographs, plans, drawings, reports, records and documents linked to England's archaeology, architecture, social and local history. Over 2 million photographs and records are now available online for free.
Heritage Explorer
Heritage Explorer Project Team, The Engine House, Firefly Avenue
Swindon SN2 2EH
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STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway
Fire Fly Avenue
Swindon SN2 2EY
STEAM tells the remarkable story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on 'God's Wonderful Railway'. Hands on displays, world-famous locomotives, archive film footage and the testimonies of ex-railway workers bring the story to life.
Trowbridge Museum
The Shires, Court Street
Trowbridge BA14 8AT
The museum is housed in a former woollen mill within the Shires shopping centre. Displays tell the history of the woollen industry, Trowbridge town and its people.
Warminster Museum
Warminster Public Library, Three Horseshoes Mall
Warminster BA12 9BT
In 1973 the History Society assumed the care of artefacts from the town council, including the Victor Manley collection of geology, the Harold Dewey Collection, and other items given for the benefit of the people of Warminster. The society set up a museum in the Sexton's cottage at the rear of the Chapel of St Lawrence. In 1982 the museum moved to the present library building where it has a display area, storeroom and offices. Only a proportion of its items can be on display at any one time, but items from the museum storeroom can be studied by arrangement with the museum staff.
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Cocklebury Road
Chippenham SN15 3QN
The History Centre brings together the archaeology, archive, buildings record, conservation, and museum advisory services together with the county local studies library to create a centre whose sum is much more than that of its parts.
Wiltshire Museum
41 Long Street
Devizes SN10 1NS
The collections contain Early Bronze Age items, along with objects related to the World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge including gold ornaments and jewellery made of various materials. The displays also include outstanding and Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and medieval collections.