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The Volunteer April 2016

In this edition: Rex Whistler Archive Project NADFAS Library Project Salisbury Journal Archive NADFAS Costume Project Finding Pitt-Rivers Project Portable Antiquities Scheme Volunteer Dates for the Diary News at the Museum Did you know? Exhibitions Events Contact Us

Volunteer Alan Haddock working on the Finding Pitt-Rivers Project

Volunteer Project Updates

Volunteer Gillian Leach on the Rex Whistler Archive

searched and cross referenced and over time will be used to populate the website where members of the public will be able to see everything in our collections.

We designed a process for the task. As each box or folder was opened its contents were inspected and where necessary put into protective sleeves. Information on each item is recorded on a paper template; this includes its size, description, medium, condition, keywords and anything else we feel is relevant. The information on these paper records are then transferred onto the Modes database.

“‘Whoops’ and ‘ahh’s’ regularly But this is not a tedious process – ‘whoops’ accompany the opening of a package and ‘ahh’s’ regularly accompany the opening of a package or box. Ask any of the Whistler team or box.” what it’s like and they will tell you about the joy of handling these wonderful items and the If you remember the Rex Whistler Exhibition in privilege of communing with this versatile artist 2013, you will recall how exciting it was to see who died tragically before his career could this versatile artist exhibited so well. What flourish. came as a surprise to many was the range of his talents which included murals; designs for To describe the archive as eclectic is an the theatre and films; book illustrations; understatement. We have beautiful mural advertisements and portraits. designs with details of fictive architecture and fittings. Some of these buildings no longer exist Also in 2013, Salisbury Museum acquired a and the drawings are the only record of how substantial archive relating to Rex and his they looked. work. Comprising of over 4,000 items it arrived at the museum in an enticing range of boxes Amongst the theatre designs are not only and folders. costumes but also programmes and correspondence relating to the production. Initially, Bridget Telfer the Volunteer Co- There are programmes from the 1930’s for ordinator brought together a team of three ballets performed before the King and Queen volunteers to work on the archive, we are now at Covent Garden. These show Rex working on a team of eight. The challenge we were given productions for Ninette de Valois with was to ensure that these thousands of items choreography by Frederick Ashton and music are stored safely and to create a useful record by Sir William Walton. for each item. There are sketch books from all the stages of Our definition of a ‘useful record’ is one that his artistic life, including those on pages from has an accurate entry on the museum’s his schoolbooks. Born in 1905, Rex was at collections database Modes. The Modes school during the First World War and his database currently contains over 70,000 items juvenile images of soldiers and tanks are a from the museum’s collections. Modes can be poignant reminder that his childhood was Volunteer Project Updates

darkened and his life terminated in the brutality help from David Balston, who has provided of world war invaluable support for the Modes input stage, we are optimistic that our rate of recording will We are now two years into the project and increase – although we cannot protect probably around 15% through the task. There ourselves from delays arising from enthusiasm. are many ways of achieving our objective of Sometimes the speed of recording the size of a ‘useful records’ and some of our chosen painting or drawing takes second place to the options have not always turned out to be the pleasure of just holding and taking in the most efficient. But we have learned from the beauty and skill of what is before you. things that have not gone so well and modified our processes. To my mind, that is just what volunteering to help with a project like the Whistler archive With an increase to the size of the team and should be about.

Volunteer Ross Bourne on the NADFAS Museum Library Project

The work commenced in January 2015. There are six volunteers who work twice a month, for approximately three hours each session. They have now covered approximately half the books in the Library’s collection - about 3500.

There are five major stages in handling the books in the library. As they are taken off the shelves, a number has to be put in the book to ensure that it is returned to its correct place on the shelf, after cleaning and repair. In the second stage, they are dusted. It is surprising how much dust can accumulate over a relatively short period of time. Thirdly, the

The NADFAS Museum Library Team covers of those books that have been bound “ are polished. Fourthly, possible repairs are “It is most rewarding to see the identified. And fifthly, repairs are carried out. improved condition of the Library’s collection.” Faults needing attention can include minor tears in or looseness of the binding. The Approximately ten years ago, several members volunteers are not qualified to carry out major of New Sarum NADFAS volunteered to repairs such as rebinding. A loose cover, for undertake some minor conservation work at example, will need strapping with special tape. the library of Sarum College. Before starting the work we attended two training days on the Half of the collection having been attended to conservation of books. On the completion of already, it is expected that the remainder of the this work we were invited to carry out similar collection will keep the volunteers occupied work on the library of Wilton House. It took us until the end of 2016. It is most rewarding to seven years to complete the work. see the improved condition of the Library’s collection, and it is hoped that Library users will Before we had finished at Wilton House we also appreciate the work that has been put into received an invitation to carry out the same the future of that collection. work in the library at Salisbury Museum. Volunteer Project Updates

Volunteer David Chilton on the acquisition of the Salisbury Journal Archive stored on CD-ROM. From 1969 all images were printed and a copy of each stored.

The archive was being stored in a damp cellar and a damp strongroom. In preparation for the move items were boxed where necessary and transferred to a room on the ground floor and on Tuesday 1st December 2015 all the material was moved by volunteers to the museum in seven car loads.

Prior to this move, the museum’s own image library was housed in a single room, with shelving and storage media mainly funded “Images are an important vehicle to through grants. To cater for this new influx of material three new rooms were allocated to the viewing and understanding the more image archive, namely a primary office and recent past…” store and two smaller subsidiary store rooms so that on the day everything was placed in its Salisbury Times, latterly Salisbury Journal, intended location. maintained a photo archive from 1953. In early 2015 there was some concern as to the future Thanks to the skills of volunteer Bob Hambling of the archive. If there was an office move the the archive is securely and safely stored on security of the archive might be at risk. The pre shelving. Activity is now concentrated on two 1980 annually bound copies of the newspaper main areas; transcribing the 27 ledgers that list had already been transferred to the Wiltshire & the 55,000+ photo shoots and scanning the Swindon History Centre at Chippenham. over 200,000 negative images. A computer and scanning equipment was installed in January An approach was made to the Journal, that the 2016. Volunteers are well into transcribing archive be donated to Salisbury Museum and ledgers, mainly at home, into spreadsheets. the suggestion was accepted. Whilst Adrian One volunteer, Alan Clarke, has already Green prepared a set of terms and conditions, completed scanning the negatives for 1966. especially relating to copyright, museum We chose 1966 so that the Journal could use volunteers made preparations for the move. images in 50 years ago nostalgia items during 2016. Alan is presently managing the output of The archive for transfer covered the period two other volunteers, who are scanning at the 1953 to 2012. In 2012 the Journal had started museum. You will see the results of Alan’s storing all images on its central server, so the work each week in the “Bygone Salisbury” transfer only involved physical objects; feature in the Journal. negatives, CDs, photographs and miscellaneous items. Over the period there It is intended that, eventually, the images will were over 55,000 recorded photo shoots. In the be made available to the public. Images are an early years of the archive when monochrome important vehicle to viewing and understanding photography was used, individual images were the more recent past and having the Journal’s cut from the negative strips. Later, in 1997 and photo archive in the museum is a significant with 35mm colour film, the whole film was kept. move to preserving the history of Salisbury and More recently, with the move to digital its environs. cameras, weekly batches of images were Volunteer Project Updates

The Journal photo archive in situ at the Journal offices and a scan of the Mayors flight over the city from 1965

Bridget Telfer, Volunteer Co-ordinator, on the NADFAS Costume Project

The museum has an important costume and textile collection, which focuses on items made by or associated with local people. It is strongest in late 18th and 19th century material and numbers an estimated 5,000 items. It represents various aspects of life in south Wiltshire including farming, sporting, military history, church and domestic life.

Included in the costume collection is Downton Lace – this is the name given to a type of bobbin lace used for edgings and insertions that was made in the 19th century in and around Downton, a village south of Salisbury. At the start of this year the museum embarked When, by 1910, the craft was in danger of on an exciting new project using a team of 11 dying out, it was revived as ‘The Old Downton NADFAS volunteers to catalogue its costume Lace Industry’. The collection includes collection – the volunteers describe, measure, important displays of patterns, prickings and and photograph each artefact as well as samples, bobbins and bolster-shaped pillows, checking the condition. This information is then illustrations, equipment and other memorabilia. entered onto the museum’s collections database MODES, ensuring that the collection will be easily searchable in the future. Volunteer Project Updates

Late 19th century green silk bodice Mid-19th century silk brocade bodice

Jane Ellis-Schön, Project Curator, on the Finding Pitt-Rivers Project

collection. To date they have now packed and recorded 8200 objects, photographed 5800 objects and updated 4200 object records on the collections database. This means that we are now just over half way through documenting the collection.

We are gradually adding information about the collection onto the museum website. The goal is to have a searchable database of the entire museum collection online but this is a long way off. However, we have made a start and there are now 480 objects records available to view under the Collections section: http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/collections “From March to October 2016 an exhibition about the project will be on From March to October 2016 an exhibition display in the Wessex Gallery.” about the project will be on display in the Wessex Gallery. The objects on show have all The team of volunteers are continuing with been selected by the project volunteers and their hard work improving the storage and are displayed alongside captions explaining documentation of the museums Pitt Rivers why the object is their favourite so far.

Roman Samian bowl from London Palaeolithic flint handaxe from Somaliland Volunteer Interviews

Caroline Lanyon volunteers on the NADFAS Costume Project

Riding habit, 1810 “It is a very extensive and valuable carefully analysed by Janet Arnold, a famous archive that could provide so much author of a set of books researching period enjoyment and education.” clothes and how they are cut, called 'Patterns of Fashion', published in the 1960s. I am a professional theatrical costume maker and work on West End musicals and theatre, plus some film and television. I have been doing this work since 1978. I also teach occasionally, generally in Scandinavia.

As a maker of period costumes I am always excited at the prospect of admiring genuine antique or handmade clothing, as it always expands my knowledge. Textiles are also a great source of fascination, especially when they don't conform to the 'textbook' ideas of The 1810 riding habit as featured in Janet Arnold’s what was worn when. ‘Patterns of Fashion 1’.

On the Salisbury Museum costume project, I As a costume maker I possess her books am working with others to record each item as and I have always wanted to admire this riding thoroughly as possible, in order for them to be habit close to. I felt especially privileged to entered onto a computer catalogue. It is very have this opportunity to examine it so exacting work, but the final result will make it unexpectedly. possible to explore the museum's archives for particular items of interest. The museum’s costume collection is a fabulous local resource and treasure trove. It is a very I have had a very exciting experience early in extensive and valuable archive that could my time as a volunteer when cataloguing a provide so much enjoyment and education, and famous 1810 riding habit that belongs to be an inspiration to take forward into specialist Salisbury Museum (pictured above). workshops and study days in the future.

I recognised this beautiful blue wool skirt and matching jacket as those that had been Volunteer Interviews

Jane Hanbidge volunteers on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)

A silver early-Medieval sceat, AD 720-745. The sceat was struck at Hamwic, Southampton.

sixties, as someone’s PA. I am now properly “I have waited all my life to do work retired and have time for better things. like this.” Although only having processed about 350 PAS, as it is mercifully known, involves items so far, I have already handled gold and hundreds of volunteers all over the country, silver Iron Age coins (my favourite), Roman working with local archaeologists, metal and Saxon jewellery, keys of every era and detectorists, lucky members of the public and Medieval strap ends. Lots of Medieval strap with the British Museum. I write “lucky ends…anything made of a leather strap in members of the public” because anyone who is Medieval times (a belt, a leather bracelet, a fortunate enough to find something of interest lace, part of a horse-harness, etc.) had a metal can bring it to their local museum in order to piece at the end to give it strength and consult their local Finds Officer. structure. The Romans had them too. Metal detectorists dig up lots of these…! In the case of Salisbury Museum that Officer is Richard Henry, who recently processed his I am learning so much, and having to learn it 22,000th find. I assist in identifying anything fast. Richard is an excellent teacher and brought in (I recently processed my 350th!) and various references, in books, and of course, on then report on the item to the British Museum. the internet, allow accurate identification. The This is done via a website (www.finds.org.uk), British Museum website has proformas which which is open to the public and assists have to be completed in a particular way and archaeologists, historians and others interested all finds are photographed and eventually in knowing where items are appearing. It is a returned to the finder. Unless they are treasure, database of national and international in which case the coroner decides on their fate. archaeological information, and the museum plays a major part in all of this. My work with PAS has included training on coins at the British Museum, on pottery at I’ve waited all my life to do work like this. I Wessex Archaeology at Old Sarum, and might have chosen a career in the field if it had involvement with excavations last summer. And paid enough way back then, and if there had I often find myself working with colleagues from been as many openings as there are now. abroad – Germany, Italy – as overseas Instead I joined Air Traffic Control and then students apply to work with Richard. It is went on to teaching – History, of course – interesting to have an Italian working with you retired from that and went on to a career, in my on Roman coins… Volunteer Interviews

Ruth Wills volunteers on the Rex Whistler Archive Project

The content of the letter is recorded on a special proforma by Ruth, together with information about the address from which it was written, to whom it was sent, the context, and so on. Ruth also records the physical condition of the artefact. The information is then entered by other volunteers onto the museum’s computer catalogue Modes. Previously Ruth had been involved with the cataloging of Rex's sketches and plans, all part of his preparation for such major works as his panels for the Mountbatten London home and for theatre productions.

“The humour is playful, mischievous, even faintly anarchic, and it makes me smile - every time!"

A degree in History and a love of the glass engravings by Laurence Whistler (Rex Whistler’s younger brother) led Ruth to volunteer as a steward for the museum’s Rex Whistler exhibition in 2014. The museum acquired Rex Whistler’s archive in 2013, and for the past year Ruth has been cataloguing his letters, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, and is about half-way through. Many are original letters, such as those kept by family members. Others are photocopies or typewritten transcripts. Some are annotated by Laurence Whistler which is a particular thrill for Ruth. Illustrated letter from Rex, aged 20, to his beloved Auntie Doll, sympathising with her recent visit to Ruth was tasked with looking at the original "Dr Pearce's torture chamber". letters first, and each has to be arranged into chronological order. This is not always easy as "Some of Rex's more light-hearted letters are letters were sent more often in this golden age illustrated with comic drawings: a dental nurse of letter writing, and people often simply wrote providing 'assistance' with a large pair of pliers ‘Wednesday’ or similar, rather than putting a (very topical!); an indignant lady bus passenger full date. If you had already written two or three who, elderly and a little hard of hearing, times to your family that week, ‘Wednesday’ is accuses the conductor of calling her an "old all you needed. The hand-writing is good, but tight dear"; or Siegfried Sassoon sat up in bed, deciphering what has been written is nose buried in a book, while his rather put- complicated by another habit of the times, upon landlady tries to lure him downstairs with which was to use up all available space on the a bomb-laden bed warmer pushed underneath paper by writing around the edges of the page, his mattress. The humour is playful, or even across earlier lines, thus partly mischievous, even faintly anarchic, and it obscuring what was already written! makes me smile - every time!" Volunteer Interviews

Conductor “Old Tight Lady” Old Lady (indignantly) “Who are you calling an old tight lady I’d like to know you impertinent young rascal?”

Illustrated letter from Rex, aged 11, to his mother, not long after he started at boarding school. Volunteer Dates for the Diary

Living History Demonstrations Green porphyry(?) statue of a seated Exciting volunteer events (no need to book – scribe (EA2308), just turn up!): 12th Dynasty, Egypt. ©Trustees of the

Tuesday 19 and Thursday 21 April at 3pm: British Museum See the amazing weaponry collection of Albion Historical and demonstrations of combat methods from over 1000 years ago

Wednesday 27 April at 3pm: Come and see bronze casting and pottery Briefing Dates for Egyptian and being made in the Iron Age style. Constable Volunteers

We will be holding briefings for all Engagement Volunteers (those working around the museum and within the exhibition space) for our forthcoming exhibitions.

Volunteer Coffee Mornings ‘Writing for Eternity: Decoding Ancient Egypt’: briefing dates on Wednesday 18 May or After our successful coffee mornings in Thursday 19 May at 2pm. February which covered forthcoming exhibitions, the next ones will be held from ‘Constable in Context’: briefing dates on 10.30am-12pm on: Tuesday 30 August at 10.30am or 2pm; or Monday 19 September at 10.30am. 19 and 21 July: Hear about the re- development plans for the museum. Jan Thorne or a member of Reception staff will be in touch to find out which training 4 and 5 October: Hear how we generate our dates you would like to attend. income and how we are governed.

This year the Festival will Volunteer Recruitment for Egyptian feature a live demonstration and Constable exhibitions dig by Phil Harding (pictured). For details of the full We are recruiting more volunteers to help programme of talks and other activities, please visit our with our Egyptian and Constable exhibitions later this year. If you know of anyone who website: www.salisburymuseum.org.uk might be interested do ask them to get in touch with Bridget Telfer, the Volunteer Co- ordinator (contact details on back page). Festival of Archaeology 2016 We have two further Volunteer Recruitment Days coming up on 7 June and 9 June The museum’s Festival of Archaeology will be 10.30am-12.30pm when people can come on 23 and 24 July this year. We will be along and hear about the Constable needing lots of volunteer help – so we do exhibition and other volunteer roles. hope you would like to get involved News at the Museum

Young Curators Club

We have recently launched a Young Curators Club for 6-12 year olds. This takes place once a month on a Saturday morning. Young Curators get to try out ancient skills, handle real artefacts, join in with craft activities, and find out more about life in the museum. Please A Big contact Katy England to book a place: Thank [email protected] You!

A big thank you to all of the volunteers who Spotlight Tours helped with the Spring Clean of the museum throughout March. This was essential work – We will be relaunching Spotlight Tours of the not only to keep the museum and displays museum for visitors this summer. Led by attractive to the public, but also to protect our volunteers they will take place every Thursday collections. Your hard work was much and Saturday at 2.30pm. Visitors don’t need to appreciated. book; they can just turn up.

PAS Adopt an Object Internship

As you all know, every item in our collection Since January intern Cristina Sanna has been requires tender loving care. That may mean working on the Portable Antiquities Scheme at conservation, restoration, storage, specialist the museum. Her internship ends on 31 May mounts, display cases or display graphics. All 2016. Cristina is Italian and recently graduated these things require specialists to work on in archaeology from the University of Bologna. them and time and money to complete. Our She has been helping to identify, record and Adopt an Object Scheme offers our volunteers photograph finds discovered by metal and members the opportunity to play a part in detectorists or others, from the Wiltshire area. the care of our fascinating collections. By You can read about the most interesting finds choosing an object and adopting it for a 2-year she has been working on in our Volunteer Blog period, you will become part of the story of that (see below). object. We will let you know if it is moved, redisplayed, loaned out or put in storage. Your name will also be placed beside the object Volunteer Blog when it is on display. Hear about what other volunteers do at the Please contact Sara Willis at museum and further volunteer news in our [email protected] for Volunteer Blog. There are weekly updates at further information. https://salisburymuseum.wordpress.com/ Did you know?

A copper alloy farthing trade token dating to AD1659 of George Godfery, a rat catcher in Salisbury. The obverse depicts a rat with the words ‘GEORGE GODFERY’ around the edge, and the reverse has the initials ‘GG’ in the centre with the words ‘IN SARVM 1659’ around the edge.

Did you know that since the start of January Did you know that in the reign of Charles II, until the end of March 2016 volunteers have traders issued tokens because small change given 5266 hours of their time to the museum? was in short supply? There are a number of Thank you so much for all of your hard work! examples from Salisbury in the museum and on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, Did you know that the museum has roughly including one for a rat catcher! (see above) 250 active volunteers? On any one day there may be as many as 50 or more working in the Did you know ‘polonaise’, ‘paniers’, and museum. ‘nainsook’ are all to do with women’s dresses? A polonaise is a woman's dress with a tight Did you know the Portable Antiquities bodice and a skirt open from the waist Scheme (PAS) holds records of artefacts and downwards, looped up to show a decorative coins found by the public, who make these underskirt. Paniers (or panniers) were worn in discoveries whilst pursuing a wide range of the 18th century, and hung on hooks under a activities, the majority from metal detecting, but dress to accentuate the hips. And nainsook also gardening, ploughing, etc.? So far, nearly was muslin. We have them all at the museum! 1,200,000 finds have been recorded. You can find out more about it all at: www.finds.org.uk. In 2015 the museum’s Finds Liaison Officer Richard Henry and his dedicated team of volunteers recorded 4094 objects found in Wiltshire.

Exhibitions

Major Exhibitions Writing is one of the most important inventions ever made by humans. By putting spoken language into visible, material form, people could store information and transmit it across time and space.

It meant that a person’s word could be recorded and read by others, decades, or even centuries later. It was the first information technology and it was revolutionary. It would be unthinkable even to try to sketch the history of writing without taking into consideration the wealth of written sources from ancient Egypt. No other culture has yielded such a rich variety of inscribed objects and nowhere else have they been so well preserved. John Craxton working on Pastoral for P.W., 1948 Photograph by Felix Man

A Poetic Eye: John Craxton on Cranborne Chase and Crete 30 January – 7 May 2016

Curated by Ian Collins, this is an exhibition exploring the colourful life of artist John Craxton and his incredible emotional, physical and creative journey from Cranborne Chase to Crete. From an early age Craxton lived with artists Cecil and Amy Waller near Farnham, a short walk from the Pitt-Rivers Blue glazed composition ink-well (EA22015), Ptolemaic Period, Tanis; House of Ashaikhet Museum, where he was inspired by art, ©Trustees of the British Museum archaeology and the landscape of Dorset. Ancient Egypt has provided us with literature, This exhibition shows his art as it changes letters, songs, biographies, stories and from dark to light and as he moves across prophecies, instructions, treaties, funerary Europe to Crete, but the strength and and religious texts, written in hieroglyphic and importance of line in his work remains cursive scripts representing four millennia of constant. language evolution.

Writing for Eternity: Decoding Ancient Egypt was a literate culture long before the Egypt idea of writing reached Europe. Moreover, a 21 May – 3 September 2016 vast amount of written evidence from Ancient Egypt has survived in the dry conditions of This touring exhibition, developed in North Africa, to be excavated by partnership with the British Museum tells the archaeologists and studied by Egyptologists story of 4000 years of writing in Ancient Egypt in museums and universities. Deciphering featuring a fantastic range of hieroglyph and these scripts has allowed academics to start cursive writing on a wide range of materials, solving the mysteries of this ancient such as stone, wood, papyrus, linen, civilization. parchment, pottery, and metal. Exhibitions

Icons of the North Wessex Downs 16 July – 1 October 2016

Artist Anna Dillon was asked to illustrate the ten most iconic features within the area. For the Salisbury Museum she will produce a new line of work to go alongside these works of art. The exhibition will tell the story of the North Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831 Wessex Downs exploring the geology of the John Constable (1776-1837) area, the way in which people have shaped ©Tate, London 2013 and influenced the landscape and the wildlife Purchased with assistance from the Heritage Lottery that thrives in this special area. Fund, The Manton Foundation, the Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and Tate

Members. Avebury, Watercolour and Gouache Constable in Context: Salisbury Cathedral Anna Dillon from the Meadows in perspective 17 September 2016 – 25 March 2017

This exhibition will focus on the history of how the Cathedral has been depicted in art. This will show the change through time from earlier architectural studies in the 17th and 18th Wiltshire’s Story in 100 Objects centuries to later landscape views (20th – 21st October 2016 – January 2017 centuries). It will also reveal the enormous impact that Constable’s painting had on The Wiltshire’s Story in 100 Objects project, depicting the Cathedral and water meadows, managed by the Wessex Museums Partnership inspiring artists all over the world. and funded by Arts Council England, aims to shine a spotlight on the diverse and important This exhibition is part of Aspire, a partnership collections that Wiltshire’s museums collect, programme touring Salisbury Cathedral from care for and interpret. It will use 100 carefully the Meadows 1831 across the UK. Aspire is selected objects to celebrate the rich history of supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the the county from 10,000 BC to the present day. Art Fund. The objects are divided into 10 themes, Smaller Exhibitions including beliefs and ideas, creative and cultural, food and farming, health, learning and Relationships social reform, industry and manufacturing, military and war, inventions and firsts, rule and An exhibition by Sophie Ryder rulers, textile and weaving and travel and 20 February – 9 July 2016 transport.

Working in partnership with Salisbury Wessex Gallery Temporary Exhibition Cathedral and The Young Gallery, this is an Showcase: from March until the end of exhibition of the drawings and workings of October 2016 Jane Ellis-Schön, Project acclaimed sculptor Sophie Ryder. Sophie is Curator for Salisbury Museum’s ‘Finding Pitt- well known for her sculptures of mythical Rivers’ Project funded by Arts Council England, creatures, an example of which is on display on will introduce the project alongside a selection the front lawn. The exhibition itself re-creates of objects chosen by the project volunteers and Sophie’s workroom and gives an insight into the findings so far. how her work is made. Events and Contact Info

Events Contact Us

Drawing workshop with Nicholas Beer Bridget Telfer, Volunteer Co-ordinator

We have a new Events leaflet out that runs If you have any thoughts or comments on the until September 2016 – so do pick up a copy Volunteer Newsletter, please do get in touch. from the museum. Or if there is anything that you would like to see included then I would love to hear from you. There are a host of exciting events for you to come along to including historical talks; artist I hope that you enjoyed this first edition of the workshops; family events; and exhibition talks Volunteer Newsletter. and tours. Don’t miss out – book your tickets soon! Bridget Telfer Volunteer Co-ordinator The Salisbury Museum The King’s House 65 The Close Salisbury SP1 2EN

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