Activities for Children

Time Travellers Activity Pack

Date: Available throughout the year, from 5 April 2008 (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.

Other Events

Friends' Talks

A series of talks organised by the Friends of Swindon Museum & Art Gallery.

All talks start at 7.30 pm at Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. Tickets for each talk are £4.50 (£3 for Members of the Friends'). Or buy tickets for the whole talks series and get five talks for the price of four (£18/£12). For  tickets and further information telephone 01793 466556.

Exhibitions

Queens Park Family Scrapbook

Dates: Until 28 June 2008
Cost: Free

An exhibition with community involvement!

Treasure

Dates: Extended until 18 October 2008
Admission: Free

What makes a treasure? Precious metals, age, rarity? Or all three? Find out more in this exhibition of archaeological treasures from the Swindon area, including an ornate silver 16th Century dress fastener, a Saxon sword and a rare Bronze Age rapier. Many of the items are on display for the first time.

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.

Resonant Forms

Dates: Until 30 August 2008
Admission: Free

Exploring the dynamic relationship between artists ideas and the ways they structure their work. This exhibition tracks changes in emphasis across the last 100 years through works by artists such as David Bomberg, Richard Hamilton and Lisa Milroy, from the Swindon Collection of Modern British Art.

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 & 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 & Art Gallery on 01793 466556.

For opening times and general information about the Swindon Museum & Art Gallery please visit the General Information Page.