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The Museum is open 6 days per week:
Monday – Closed, Tuesday – FRIDAY open 10.30am – 4.30pm,
SATURDAY OPEN 10.30AM – 4.00PM, Sunday open 11.30am – 3.30pm,
bank Holiday OPening Hours


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Capturing the history of Malmesbury

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Useful Web Links

We believe that it’s important to provide links to like-minded and useful websites. Please note that we have no control over the content of these websites and that our link to them in no way endorses their content either inferred or implied:

  • Malmesbury History Society – members explore the history of Malmesbury and surrounding villages. Their website includes projects and summaries of members’ research and talks.
  • Explore Malmesbury – a community project telling Malmesbury’s stories at the places they happened by use of a map operating on a smartphone, mobile device or PC. Contains historic photographs, reconstructions and descriptions of points of interest through time.
  • Malmesbury Abbey
  • Malmesbury Civic Trust
  • Malmesbury Town Council
  • Warden and Freemen of Malmesbury
  • Chippenham Museum
  • Corinium Museum
  • Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
  • Wiltshire Museum, Devizes -The premier collection of archaeology in northern Wiltshire, belonging to the Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History Society; also now holds the Wiltshire Folklife collection.
  • Bradford Upon Avon Museum
  • Cheltenham Museum
  • Museum of Gloucester
  • Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes – The K&A Trust’s museum
  • Market Lavington Museum – Small independent local history collection
  • Mere Museum – Independent collection with displays in the library
  • Pewsey Heritage – Independent collection in an agricultural engineer’s works
  • Purton Museum – Independent museum of local history and archaeology
  • Salisbury Museum – The main museum of southern Wiltshire
  • Steam, Swindon – The museum of the Great Western Railway
  • Tetbury Police Museum
  • Trowbridge Museum – Town Council museum covering the town and villages south towards Salisbury Plain, with a special interest in the woollen cloth industry

If your website is relevant and you wish to join our link page, please contact us and we will consider your request.

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Athelstan Museum
Town Hall, Cross Hayes
Malmesbury
Wiltshire, SN16 9BZ

Tel: 01666 829258
Email: info@athelstanmuseum.org.uk

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