The Salisbury Museum
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| Established | 1860 |
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| Location | The King's House, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
| Type | History museum |
| Director | Adrian Green |
| Website | The Salisbury Museum Website |
The Salisbury Museum is a museum in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It houses one of the best collections relating to Stonehenge and local archaeology. Following rebranding in 2014, its name was simplified from the previous version, 'Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum'.
The museum is housed in The King's House, a Grade I listed building, where King James I of England was entertained in 1610 and 1613. Set in the surroundings of the Cathedral Close, the museum faces the west front of Salisbury Cathedral. Previously based at No 40-42, St Ann Street, where it had been founded in 1860 by Dr Richard Fowler, FRS, it transferred to its current location in the 1970s.
The original three-storey building with mullioned and transomed windows, ornate plaster ceilings and a fine oak-balustraded staircase, houses the main temporary exhibition gallery, with the ceramics gallery above.
The arms of James I's eldest son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, can be seen in a window in the Wedgwood gallery upstairs.
The Director of the museum is Adrian Green.
Popular summer exhibitions since 2011 have featured artists who share a close connection with the locality.
A £350,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was awarded in August 2013, to help save the personal archive of Rex Whistler. The Salisbury Museum hopes to purchase the archive, which contains over 1,000 items and is the only substantial collection of material relating to the artist.
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