Visitor Guide 2019

“We’re a creative lot in Wiltshire”
> Family Fiesta, Salisbury Arts Centre
> Enchanted Christmas, Westonbirt
> Xuefei Yang, Wiltshire Music Centre
> Frankenstein, Salisbury Playhouse
international renown – hardly surprising, when you hear that Sean
Rafferty of BBC Radio 3 once described its 300-seat concert hall
as having ‘the finest acoustic outside London’.
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery features impressive and thoughtprovoking
works by some of Britain’s finest modern artists. Lucien
Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Alfred Wallis and LS Lowry
are all represented here, alongside an important collection of
studio ceramics. The Victoria Art Gallery, just across the county
border in Bath, offers a stunning permanent collection from
Turner and Gainsborough to the moderns, as well as an exciting
programme of temporary exhibitions.
Important art collections are also to be found in many of Wiltshire’s
stately homes. Corsham Court, for example, is home to furniture
by Chippendale, mirrors by Adams and portraits by Sir Joshua
Reynolds. The magnificent Inigo Jones state rooms at Wilton House
include the Double Cube Room, the finest surviving 17 th century
stateroom in England. Designed to display family portraits by van
Dyck, it contains the greatest collection of his paintings still housed
in its original setting.
Events including open-air theatre, historic re-enactments, firework
displays and Christmas celebrations are regularly hosted by historic
properties too, including Arundells, Avebury and Bowood, Lacock,
Longleat and Mompesson House, Old Sarum, Old Wardour Castle,
Stourhead and Westonbirt Arboretum.
Theatres, galleries, arts centres. Plays, recitals, exhibitions.
Inspirational venues and outstanding entertainment, dedicated
to making imaginations fly. With such beautiful and diverse
countryside as our backdrop, the whole county is a canvas for
creativity.
Further information on the many timeless pleasures to be enjoyed
around the county can be found at visitwiltshire.co.uk/whats-on
visitwiltshire.co.uk
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