Wiltshire Museums

The Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum

The Museum, a collection of over 125 cars, motorcycles and bicycles, plus extensive automobilia.

Downside Stockley Lane Calne  SN11 0NF  Tel: 01249813119

STEAM - the Museum of the Great Western Railway

Housed in a beautifully restored Grade II railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway works. The Museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Railway - 'God’s Wonderful Railway' - a railway network that, through the pioneering vision and genius of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was regarded as the most advanced in the world.

Kemble Drive, Swindon  SN2 2TA Tel: 01793 466646

Trowbridge Museum

Hosted in a former woollen mill.

The Shires, Court Street, Trowbridge  BA14 8AT  Tel: 01255 751339  Email

Wroughton Science Museum

A storage facility for the National Collections of the Science Museum. These artefacts are stored at Wroughton, and known as ’objects’ in the Museum world, are the LARGE objects from the whole spectrum of collections of scientific and technological interest. These range from very big objects such as the enormous Lockheed Constellation airliner and early computers, to very heavy objects such as the Wood Press (140 tonnes) and early MRI scanners.

The collections are stored in seven hangars on the airfield site. The collections of wide appeal, such as the Air Transport collection and the Land Transport collection, are stored so that they may be viewed easily by the public, with most objects labelled and in easy view. The more ’eclectic’ objects are stored in racking as in a warehouse to conserve space, and these are open to the public on occasional open weekends.

Red Barn Gate, Wroughton   SN4 9NS Tel: 01793 846200   Email