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Inspiring young writers through 400-year-old biographies and anonymous Victorians
2026 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Aubrey: local biographer, archaeologist, scientist and oral historian. This summer, Chippenham Museum will be celebrating his wide-ranging pursuits and scientific …
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Read More25 Years of the Millennium Wall
In March 1999, a feasibility study was undertaken to explore the idea of a project involving local schools, to create a piece of public art to mark the millennium. In …
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Read MoreThreads: Spilling the Tee
In the next in our series of blogs as part of our ‘threads’ year dedicated to clothing, memory and identity, we have asked our Young Curators Group to explore the …
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Read MoreThreads: Recreating a 25 year old project
In 2000 the ‘As We See It’ project engaged three young people to produce a photographic record of Chippenham. Their photographs featured people from the town, and captured a moment …
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Read MoreThreads: Twelfth Night 2025
If you follow Chippenham Museum on social media, you will know that we have just marked the twelve days of Christmas with some great images from the collection. This led …
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Read MoreWork Experience at Chippenham Museum
As schools are returning for a new year, we thought we would take the opportunity to look back and reflect for a moment on the end of the last academic …
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Read MoreArt in Exile: Making Spaces – Part One
In October Chippenham Museum began a new project working with Ukrainian families, alongside a local artist, to produce a new artwork exploring Chippenham and the surrounding area as a place …
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Read MoreArt in Exile: The Work of Charles Wellens – Part Three
In this third blog on Charles Wellens we look at the conservation work the painting had to undergo before it could go on display. Before conservation, the painting was yellow …
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Read MoreArt in Exile: The Work of Charles Wellens – Part Two
In this second blog on Charles Wellens, we look at the painting itself. It was produced by Wellens in 1915 when he lived in Chippenham. It shows Common Slip and …
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Read MoreArt in Exile: The Work of Charles Wellens – Part One
As well as hosting an exhibition of the work of Peter Potworowski, in 2023 Chippenham Museum also received an ‘On Display!’ grant from South West Museum Development, with thanks to …
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📻 We're delighted that our exhibition, "Wiltshire & the World: John Aubrey and the Quest for Knowledge", is being featured on the Ben Prater Morning Show on BBC Wiltshire all this week.
Tune in to hear historian Louise Ryland-Epton explore the remarkable life and achievements of John Aubrey, one of Wiltshire's most fascinating historical figures, 400 years after his birth in Easton Piercy. Today's link ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m003014q (At 1.48.43)
Why not make time to visit the exhibition and discover Aubrey's extraordinary quest for knowledge for yourself?
📍 Open daily, 10.00am – 4.00pm
🎟️ FREE entry
🚪 Closed Sundays
We look forward to welcoming you!
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We have reduced our carbon emissions from our activities and services by 28.7% since 2019, according to our latest appraisal, covering 2024–2025.
Since we began measuring our emissions, we have made a number of changes to reduce our impact on the environment. These include replacing the LPG heating at Stanley Park with a heat pump and solar panels, switching to renewable energy suppliers, installing more energy-efficient heating and lighting, improving insulation in our buildings, and beginning the transition to electric vehicles and HVO fuel.
These measures form part of our Climate Action Plan, which sets out how we will achieve our commitment to become a net carbon zero organisation by 2030.
There is more work to do. Our next assessment will include further reductions from replacing gas heating at the Town Hall and Neeld Community & Arts Centre with heat pumps, helping us to remove fossil fuel heating from our buildings.
We will continue to look for practical ways to reduce our carbon emissions and make our services and buildings more sustainable.
To celebrate Swindon & Wiltshire Pride, we are flying the progress flag from the Town Hall.
For information on what celebrations are taking place this weekend, please visit
Swindon & Wiltshire Pride 2026 - 15 August 2026
www.swindonwiltshirepride.org.uk
Find out more about this years event on our website!