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So, just what Do our visitors come to see?

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Oct 1, 2010

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I thought it may be of interest to take a look on your behalf at the kind of original documents visitors order out when they visit our search rooms, to give you an idea of the wide range of requests we receive for documents each day. I chose a day last week at random, and got peeking!

 
Pattern Book, Ref: 947/1802

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Has www.wiltshiretreasures.org become one of your bookmarked treasures yet?

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Mar 30, 2010

Launched in 2009 the Wiltshire Treasures website allows you to search the catalogues of eleven museums in Wiltshire, along with the art and photographic collections owned by Wiltshire Council.


Example of a search on Wiltshire Treasures for all items made of mahogany in Market Lavington Museum!

There are more than 160,000 records to search containing items ranging from prehistoric flint tools to a 1960’s dolls house. The site is easy to use and searches can either be carried out by keyword, topic, place, date or name.

  The most recent addition has been 50 of the star objects from Mere Museum

 Wiltshire Treasures collections are from: [please 'read more']




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