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Local History and Heritage


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Customer Service Excellence logoWelcome to the Local History and Heritage pages of the website.

Here you can find out about Archaelogy, the Historic Environment Record, Metal Detector Finds and much more.

Latest Updates:

Educational Visits and Information

Winchester Museums’ sites offer hands-on and fun learning opportunities for schools. They are ideal venues for learning outside the classroom.
02/07/2009

Hyde900 Newsletter Issue 5 (pdf 816 Kb)

Spring 2009 Edition
27/02/2009

English Project Annual Report 2008

First Annual Report
02/02/2009


In this section:

Artefact loan packs

Winchester Museums has a small loan collection of packs of objects for handling in the classroom. Schools, colleges, and adult education classes frequently make use of them.
23/04/2007

Getting Involved

Get hands-on with the arts by participating in learning or group activity, for fun or career.
05/08/2006

Map and Access Points for Winchester Museums

Opening hours, maps and disabled access for Winchester's Museum sites.
24/07/2006

What is the HER used for?

The HER is a publicly accessible resource, which is a valuable source of information on the archaeology and heritage of Winchester for everyone, whatever their level of interest.
24/07/2006


Media Centre:

History of Hampshire & Isle of Wight in ten objects

BBC Radio Solent and museums across the county have revealed the list of 10 objects they have chosen to tell a history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
19/01/2010



Related External Links:

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies Service at Hampshire Record Office

www3.hants.gov.uk/archives.htm


Contact Us

Economic and Cultural Services
Winchester City Council
Colebrook Street
Winchester
SO23 9LJ

Tel: 01962 848 303

Fax: 01962 848 427

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