Museums and Galleries
Winchester Museums is managed by Winchester City Council, running four sites in the city and providing a wide range of associated services.
Welcome to Winchester Museums
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Making Winchester's history come to life
Winchester Museums is responsible for the City Museum, the Westgate Museum and City Space. The Historic Environment Centre provides a venue where the museum's collections and curators may be consulte
d by appointment.
Our aim is to raise the profile of the Winchester district as a world-class destination and to enhance the quality of the visitor experience.
To view Winchester's Archive please link through here to Hampshire Archives and Local Studies. Winchester City Council are proud to be working in partnership with Hampshire County Council.
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Latest Updates:
Film - Winchester City Museum - where history comes alive!
Students at the University of Winchester have created this advert for the City Museum in Winchester.
04/03/2010
History of Hampshire & Isle of Wight in ten objects
The list of 10 objects is part of the wider A History of the World project formed out of a unique partnership between the BBC, the British Museum and 350 museums and institutions across the country.
15/02/2010
Mayor's Choice - Houses and Homes
6 - 28 February at City Space in the Winchester Discovery Centre sees the 2010 Mayor’s Choice Exhibition
11/02/2010
Media Centre:
Winchester’s own Victorian Pharmacy
Those who are folllowing the current BBC2 tv series “Victorian Pharmacy”, will be interested to know that Winchester has its very own reconstructed Victorian chemist’s shop in the City Museum in The Square.
18/08/2010
Summer in the City Museum
There will be free events and quizzes for all the family at Winchester City Museum during the school summer holidays.
03/08/2010
Childhoods Past
A new exhibition at City Space in Winchester Dicovery Centre explores childhood throught the ages and explores what children used to play with, what school was like, and what children did in their spare time.
28/07/2010
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