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Re: Support needed for Wiltshire Heritage Museum
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thesweetcheat wrote:
It's very sad than when public interest in prehistory is probably greater than it's ever been (if the raft of TV series that have been on over the last couple of years is any indication), that such a valuable collection is having to fight to survive. I hate to say it, but the problem may be partly due to the fact that it's based in a relatively small town, rather than being in London.

Publicity is clearly needed, but you have to get people to go to Devizes in the first place - perhaps they could link up more with other local attractions?


Being based in a small town is the problem of course with the Devizes Museum, 20 odd miles from Bath, from which the tourists go to Stonehenge, Salisbury and Avebury and it gets bypassed on the way. It is an important musuem for the area and is historic in its own right.
Many years ago we used to go to the museum on the course I was doing in archaeology, and some of the people from the course were volunteers there. Volunteer work was also done at the Bath & Camerton Society as well, so we should'nt necessarily condemn voluntary work, it only becomes bad when people get thrown out of jobs...


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moss
Posted by moss
5th January 2012ce
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