Museum

Welcome to our new series of blogs discussing Chippenham Museum’s Making Spaces project. Launched in October the project explores Chippenham and the surrounding area as a place of refuge. The …

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In 1949 James Tower joined the teaching staff at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, where he established the school’s ceramics department. Tower was drawn to the Academy’s approach to …

Continue reading “Large Platter with Doves, James Tower, 1955”

Victor Cazalet was MP for Chippenham from 1924 to 1943. He regularly spoke out in parliament on a number of issues. He campaigned that married women should be able to …

Continue reading “Signed photograph of Victor Cazalet, 1935”

Born in 1889, Charles Wellens was the eldest son of a brewery owner in Lummen, Belgium, but rather than join the family business he became an artist. In August 1914, …

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In the second of our Parish News bulletins we focus on the parish of Box incorporating the village of Box and the settlements of Alcombe, Ashley, Box Hill, Chapel Plaister, …

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In this second blog to celebrate Chippenham Pride 2023, we’re looking at an interwar LGBTQIA+ design duo, whose work features in our latest exhibition ‘Chippenham Between the Wars’. The decades …

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To celebrate Chippenham Pride 2023 we’re sharing some of the inspirational stories of influential LGBTQIA+ figures from our latest exhibition ‘Chippenham Between the Wars’, exploring life in the town in …

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Being inundated with scientific statistics and news reports about climate change can be overwhelming and difficult to comprehend. In this blog we look at how artworks in our collection show …

Continue reading “Collections & The Climate Crisis: Art & The Environment”

The explosion of single-use plastics has caused a range of environmental issues, from the carbon emissions caused in extracting crude oil and natural gas to produce plastics, to the amount …

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From ‘made to measure’ to ‘made in Bangladesh’ – In our latest blog we discover what a Burton’s jacket, shirt and jumper from our collection can reveal about the damaging …

Continue reading “Collections & The Climate Crisis: Fast Fashion”