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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, the name was simplified from the previous version, 'Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum'. The museum itself 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 Salisbury 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. 〔 http://www.jac314159.webspace.virginmedia.com/SCS/093.html〕 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. ==Temporary Exhibitions== Popular summer exhibitions since 2011 have featured artists who share a close connection with the locality. From May–September 2013, Rex Whistler: A Talent Cut Short' was the temporary exhibition. Whistler came to prominence between the World Wars. Alongside commercial work for Wedgwood Pottery, Shell Petroleum, Guinness and The London Underground, he also painted many members of London’s fashionable Bright Young Things - including writer Edith Sitwell and photographer Cecil Beaton. Whistler also produced mural cycles, including one at Tate Britain, stage designs and book illustrations, as well as portraits, and commercial designs. He was killed on his first day of action as a soldier in Normandy in 1944. In summer of 2012, Salisbury Museum presented 'Circles And Tangents' featuring the work of artists connected with Cranborne Chase, including Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Ben Nicholson, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Elisabeth Frink, William Nicholson and over 25 other artists. In 2011, the temporary exhibition was 'Constable and Salisbury'. Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Constable’s first visit to Salisbury, the exhibition contained over forty original oil paintings, watercolours and drawings, including the famous 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows'. The temporary summer exhibition announced for 2015 is 'Turner's Wessex: Architecture and Ambition'. It will feature an extraordinary collection of brilliant watercolours made by JMW Turner as a very young man in the Salisbury area, and will be curated by Ian Warrell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Salisbury Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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