Athelstan Museum enjoys help provided by the Wiltshire County Council Libraries and Heritage department; this is provided through their Museum and conservation services.
This help takes the form of advice, both over the phone and through periodic visits to the museum. We are also given an agreed amount of conservation work and there is more available if we pay for it.
With other Wiltshire museums WCC museum service has set as targets for 2008/09
- Continuation of the Accreditation (Registration) Standards attained by Wiltshire museums
- Increasing learning opportunities in Wiltshire museums including provision within museums
- Achieving 300,000 visitors to Wiltshire museums in the financial year 2008/09
To blow our own trumpet, in the first year that Friends of Athelstan Museum took other the running of the museum visitor numbers increased five fold on the previous year. And we hope to maintain progress.
Museum Libraries and Archives South west also provide helpful advice. In addition we have found that any approach to a neighbouring museum is always helpfully dealt with – and there is a wealth of experience on which to draw!
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