Qualla: The Salisbury Museum https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/the-salisbury-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Salisbury Museum https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum The Salisbury Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum/ Photo credit Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0. For at least eighty years, a dirty grey stone sat by the front door of Lake House at Wilsford-cum-Lake, a few miles north of Salisbury. People wiped their boots on it. Children sat on it. Sting and Trudie Styler, who eventually bought the house, walked past it daily. Nobody knew it was a meteorite, possibly the largest ever to fall on the British Isles, almost certainly placed in a Bronze Age burial mound, then dug out by a Victorian antiquarian and used as a doorstop. That stone now sits, properly labelled, in The Salisbury Museum across from the cathedral.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/the-salisbury-museum-wp/gcnd-the-salisbury-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Salisbury Museum: The King's House https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum/ Photo credit Richard Avery, CC BY-SA 4.0. The museum lives inside The King's House, a Grade I listed building in Salisbury Cathedral Close. King James I was entertained here in 1610 and again in 1613, which is how the building got its name. Three storeys of mullioned windows and ornate plaster ceilings face directly acro...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/the-salisbury-museum-wp/gcnd-the-salisbury-museum-the-kings-house.mp3 0:06 2 full The Salisbury Museum: The doorstop from space https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum/ Photo credit Richard Avery, CC BY-SA 4.0. Professor Colin Pillinger, the planetary scientist best known for the Beagle 2 Mars lander, had been studying a small meteorite from the Danebury Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire. He suspected it might be related to the stone at Lake House, recently confirmed by the Natural Histor...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/the-salisbury-museum-wp/gcnd-the-salisbury-museum-the-doorstop-from-space.mp3 0:06 3 full The Salisbury Museum: The Wessex Gallery https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum/ Photo credit Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2012 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the museum just under 1.8 million pounds to build a new Archaeology of Wessex gallery. It opened in 2014, telling the story of Salisbury Plain from the first hunters at Blick Mead through the Norman Conquest. The star object is the Amesbu...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/the-salisbury-museum-wp/gcnd-the-salisbury-museum-the-wessex-gallery.mp3 0:06 4 full The Salisbury Museum: Painters who came to look https://qualla.com/the-salisbury-museum/ Photo credit Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Salisbury has been pulling artists south for two hundred years. The summer exhibitions in the upstairs galleries chronicle the parade. In 2011, on the bicentenary of John Constable's first visit, the museum gathered more than forty of his Salisbury oils, watercolours and drawings...

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