List of museums in Wiltshire
# List of museums in Wiltshire

This list of museums in Wiltshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

## Museums

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| Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Aldbourne Heritage Centre | Aldbourne | Wiltshire | Local | Local history, culture, collections of bells |
| Alexander Keiller Museum at Avebury | Avebury | Wiltshire | Archaeology | Prehistoric artifacts, most found at Avebury, also history of the site |
| Arundells | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Historic house | 18th-century home of former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, who lived there from 1985, features his furnishings and personal collections |
| Athelstan Museum | Malmesbury | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, culture, collections of lace, coins, bicycles and tricycles |
| Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum | Calne | Wiltshire | Transportation | website, classic and rare cars, lorries, motorcycles, mopeds, push bikes, memorabilia |
| Avebury Manor and Garden | Avebury | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, early 16th-century manor house and early 20th-century garden |
| Bedwyn Stone Museum | Great Bedwyn | Wiltshire | Art | information, carved stone decorations and pieces |
| Boscombe Down Aviation Collection | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Aerospace | website, also known as Old Sarum Airfield Museum, restored aircraft, vehicles and artefacts related to RAF Boscombe Down |
| Bowood House | Derry Hill | Wiltshire | Historic house | Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Capability Brown |
| Bradford on Avon Museum | Bradford on Avon | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, natural history, recreated Victorian pharmacy shop |
| Calne Heritage Centre | Calne | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, art |
| Chippenham Museum | Chippenham | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Chiseldon Museum | Chiseldon | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history |
| Corsham almshouses & 17th-century schoolroom | Corsham | Wiltshire | Historic house | 17th-century almshouses and period schoolroom |
| Corsham Court | Corsham | Wiltshire | Historic house | 16th-century country house known for its art collection, landscape designed by Capability Brown |
| Corsham Information and Heritage Centre | Corsham | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history and information centre |
| Cricklade Museum | Cricklade | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Crofton Pumping Station | Great Bedwyn | Wiltshire | Technology | Early 19th-century steam-powered pumping station with working engines |
| Great Chalfield Manor | Great Chalfield, Atworth | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 15th-century moated manor house, gardens |
| Kennet and Avon Canal Museum | Devizes | Wiltshire | Transportation | History and heritage of the Kennet and Avon Canal |
| Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village | Lacock | Wiltshire | Multiple | Operated by the National Trust, medieval country home and former abbey, picturesque rural village, museum of photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot and photography exhibits |
| Lackham Museum of Agriculture and Rural Life | Lacock | Wiltshire | Agriculture | information, based at Wiltshire College Lackham, displays of farming, agriculture, rural trades and rural life |
| Little Clarendon | Dinton | Wiltshire | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust, late 15th-century stone house and chapel |
| Longleat | Horningsham | Wiltshire | Historic house | Elizabethan country house, maze, landscaped parkland and safari park |
| Lydiard House | Swindon | Swindon | Historic house | Palladian stately home with restored state rooms, ground-floor apartments, changing exhibits of local art, culture |
| Market Lavington Village Museum | Market Lavington | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, culture, rural trades, agriculture, domestic life |
| Merchant's House, Marlborough | Marlborough | Wiltshire | Historic house | website, 17th-century-period merchant's house |
| Mere Museum | Mere | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history |
| Museum of Computing | Swindon | Swindon | Science | History of computing and digital development including the Internet and video games |
| Mompesson House | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century Queen Anne house with period furniture, collection of drinking glasses, walled garden |
| Oxfam Art Gallery | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Art | operated by Oxfam |
| Pewsey Heritage Centre | Pewsey | Wiltshire | Local | Pewsey Heritage Centre, has a collection that covers local history, social history, and agricultural history of the Vale of Pewsey. |
| Philipps House | Dinton | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, early 19th-century Neo-Grecian country house with collection of Regency furniture and furnishings, park |
| The Pound | Corsham | Wiltshire | Art | website, performing arts centre with exhibit gallery |
| Purton Museum | Purton | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, domestic life, agriculture |
| Railway Village Museum | Swindon | Swindon | Historic house | Victorian railway worker's cottage. |
| REME Museum | MoD Lyneham | Wiltshire | Military | Artifacts used by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers including communications equipment, computers, vehicles, weapons |
| Richard Jefferies Museum | Coate | Swindon | Historic house | website, birthplace home and museum of writer and naturalist Richard Jefferies |
| The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Military | website, regimental artifacts and history of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, now part of The Rifles; also known as The Wardrobe Military Museum |
| Salisbury Museum | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Multiple | Archaeology, Stonehenge and prehistory, art, decorative arts, Roman, Saxon and medieval history, social history, costumes, anthropology. Nationally important collections as recognised by the Designation Scheme. |
| Salisbury Arts Centre | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Art | website, performing and visual arts centre |
| Science Museum at Wroughton | Wroughton | Swindon | Science | Features large objects of the Science Museum (London), open only by pre-booked tours in the summer |
| STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway | Swindon | Swindon | Railway | Historic locomotives, rolling stock, memorabilia, reconstructed work areas, history of the Great Western Railway |
| Stourhead | Stourton | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Palladian mansion featuring a Regency library with collections of Chippendale furniture and paintings, 18th-century landscape gardens on a 2,650 acre (11 km²) estate |
| Swindon and Cricklade Railway | Blunsdon | Swindon | Railway | Heritage railway with museum exhibits open on special events at the Blunsdon railway station |
| Swindon Art Gallery | Swindon | Swindon | Art | Includes the Swindon Collection of Modern British Art. Managed as a single institution with Swindon Museum. |
| Swindon Museum | Swindon | Swindon | Multiple | Local history, archaeology and geology. Managed as a single institution with Swindon Art Gallery. |
| Trowbridge Museum | Trowbridge | Wiltshire | Textile | Equipment and exhibits about the local textile industry |
| Warminster Museum | Warminster | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history, geology, also known as the Warminster Dewey Museum, operated by the Warminster Historical Society and housed in Warminster Library |
| The Well House Collection | Melksham | Wiltshire | Local | website, artefacts, exhibits, large interactive photograph collection celebrating Melksham's history, housed in an Edwardian manor. Teas, coffees and refreshments available |
| Westbury Visitor Centre | Westbury | Wiltshire | Local | website, local history displays and visitor centre |
| Westwood Manor | Westwood | Wiltshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 15th-century manor house built over three centuries, features period furniture, later tapestries, modern topiary garden |
| Wilton Carpet Factory Museum | Wilton | Wiltshire | Industry | information, information, in the same place as the Wilton Town Museum, history and tours of the Wilton Carpet Factory |
| Wilton House | Wilton | Wiltshire | Historic house | Palladian country house with state rooms, art, sculpture, furnishings, gardens and parkland |
| Wilton Town Museum | Wilton | Wiltshire | Local | information, in the same place as the Wilton Carpet Museum, local history |
| Wilton Windmill | Wilton | Wiltshire | Mill | Early 19th-century five floor brick tower windmill |
| Wiltshire Museum | Devizes | Wiltshire | Multiple | Formerly known as Devizes Museum; archaeology, art, local history, social history and natural history of Wiltshire. Nationally important collections as recognised by the Designation Scheme. |
| Wootton Bassett Museum | Wootton Bassett | Wiltshire | Local | Local history, culture |
| Young Gallery | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Art | website, housed at Salisbury Library, exhibits of 19th-century images of Salisbury by artist Edward Young, John Creasey Museum, contemporary British artists and students, with an emphasis on art with a Wiltshire connection |

## Defunct museums

* Castle Combe Museum, Castle Combe, closed in 2012.
* Coate Agricultural Museum at Coate WaterCountry Park, closed and subsequently destroyed by fire in December 2016.
