Events for 6th September 2024

Offering a variety of walks for all abilities.

Free exhibition featuring a selection of the 150,000 artefacts, specimens and books donated and cared for in our the collections of the Institute. Highlighting key people and events in the Institution’s history to demonstrate how it survived through two centuries. Some items are on show for the first time and will explore the circumstances in […]

Celebrating a journey through the diversity of American landscapes, history and culture in this contemporary, immersive experience, where visitors join in and share their own stories. There will be large-scale-travel games, theatrical sets, and an array of American road-trip memorabilia, as well a chance to get up close to an original 1958 Harley Davidson Duo […]

Imagine an ocean liner soaring through the sky—a plane equipped with an on-board cinema, a cocktail bar, and a luxurious lounge, offering passengers the ultimate journey from London to New York. This was the ambitious vision behind the Bristol Brabazon when it took to the skies for the first time 75 years ago. An opportunity […]

A survey of Moore’s sculptural output from his earliest works through to his last years, in which nothing is more than 30cm in size. The first exhibition of its kind, it will include works from every decade of Moore’s career, from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Featuring around 100 posters, this blockbuster show brings bohemian Montmartre to Bath with bright colours and bold lines, Toulouse-Lautrec's striking artwork captured the essence of turn-of-the-century Parisian nightlife. Pieces include his first poster of the Moulin Rouge and the cancan dancers of La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine, alongside works by other celebrated artists of the […]

With board games, baby rhyme time, lego club, and toddler rhyme time sessions, as well as other fun games and activities throughout the summer. Booking essential for all special events. Please call 01225 702039 or email libraryenquiries@wiltshire.gov.uk to secure your space. Children must be accompanied by an adult (children 8 and under must never be […]

Delicious wood fired pizzas, drinks and live music in the comfort of the beautiful barn on the first Friday of each month. Booking is highly recommended.

The Comedy Cavern returns with a night of banter, gags and laughter welcoming known and rising stars.

With the help of archive material and footage, matched with storytelling to bring to life the awe-inspiring endeavours of astronauts and celebrate space exploration. With stories from his own journey to space and missions from the past to reveal what spaceflight is really like: from the wondrous view of Earth, living in weightlessness, the unique […]