Activities for Children

Time Travellers Activity Pack

Date: Available throughout the year. (Drop-in Activity).

Cost: £1.75 per pack.

Fun activities around the museum and art gallery include:

word search, historical games, hieroglyphics, colouring and much more.

Swindon Curiosities: The Art of Collecting

Dates: Extended, by popular demand, until 2009
Admission: Free

This exhibition dips into the museum's diverse geology, archaeology and social history collections and goes behind the scenes to explore the history of collecting. Find out more about the kinds of objects collected over the years, and the work of curators past and present.

Some of the displays are changed during the year to showcase different objects and illustrate work on a major ongoing collections audit at the museum.

Collections Audit

Are you interested in Swindon's history? Do you have basic computer skills? If so, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery could be the place for you. The social history collection offers a fascinating snapshot of daily life in Swindon over the last hundred years or so. We are currently running a major project, with the help of volunteers, to check every object,  update museum records and transfer information to a computer database.

The database will become an extremely useful tool, not only for curators to monitor the collection and find individual items, but a great asset for researchers, schoolchildren and everyone who is interested in our collections and Swindons history from prehistoric times to the present day.

If you would like to know more about volunteering opportunities at the Museum and Art Gallery please tel. 01793 466556.

E-mail: museumandartgallery@swindon.gov.uk

Further Information and Contact

For further details about any event on this page please telephone the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery on 01793 466556.

See here for opening times and general information.