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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 07 September 2012  Page Views: 19868

MuseumsSite Name: Alexander Keiller Museum Alternative Name: Avebury Museum
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Marlborough  Nearest Village: Avebury
Map Ref: SU100698  Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.427120N  Longitude: 1.857557W
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Alexander Keiller Museum
Alexander Keiller Museum submitted by JimChampion : The door to the Barn Gallery at Avebury. The barn is kept very cool in order to preserve the structure of the 17th century building, so it only houses a few archaeological exhibits - according to the NT leaflet it 'tells the story of the landscape through a fully interactive display'. Most of the archaeology collection is in the nearby Stables Gallery. Both are covered by the same admission ticke... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Wiltshire. 6000 years of the development of the Avebury landscape. Alexander Keiller undertook important excavations at Avebury. In 1938 he opened his museum in the stable block of Avebury Manor, where he lived.

Address: Barn Gallery, High Street, SN8 1RF
Phone: 01672 539384
Opening Hours: 1st April - 31st Oct - 10.30am - 5pm, 1st Nov - 31st March - 11.30-4pm (closed Tues & Weds)
Admission: Charge
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Alexander Keiller Museum submitted by HarryTwenty : Info on the grave goods. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Alexander Keiller Museum submitted by HarryTwenty : Neolithic grave goods from West Kennet Avenue. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Alexander Keiller Museum submitted by Horatio : The courtyard looking past the dovecot to the stables gallery of the Alexander Keiller museum. The barn gallery and information centre is not set up at present unlike previous years due to covid (having no visitors) and also nestings swallows. The NT staff say it be re erected (visual displays) later in the year. In the museum there are collections of animal skeletons dating around 5,500 years... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Free Entry to Alexander Keiller Museum, Saturday 8th September 2012 by Andy B on Friday, 07 September 2012
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Avebury, Wiltshire, SN8 1RF

Alexander Keiller undertook important excavations at Avebury. In 1938 he opened his museum in the stable block of Avebury Manor, where he lived. The Alexander Keiller Museum will be open for free on Saturday.

Opening Times

Saturday 8th September: 1000-1800

Access

Partial disabled access - Ramped access to museum galleries ground floor only). Museum archive stepped access only. Some rough ground and stepped access in Stone Circle, although there is level access to each quadrant of the Henge.
Additional information

Designated parking bays for Blue Badge holders in village car park for access to Stone Circle, and in staff car park for access to museum and accessible facilities.
Directions

The Alexander Keiller Museum is in the Old Farmyard just off Avebury High Street. Avebury is on the A4361, 6 miles north of Marlborough, 1 mile north of the Bath Road (A4).
Parking in main car park (350 yards from Old Farmyard).
BUS - On Stagecoach 49 bus route from Swindon - Trowbridge, Wilts and Dorset 96 route from Swindon - Pewsey. RAIL - Swindon train station 11 miles.
BICYCLE - On NCN4 and 45 cycle routes. Map link

Organised by the National Trust
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    Avebury Then and Now Heritage Open Day Tours by Andy B on Friday, 07 September 2012
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    High Street, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1RF

    As well as free entry to Alexander Keiller Museum (see separate entry), there'll be a special free event for Heritage Open Days: "Avebury Then and Now" - Join our volunteer guide for a trek around the stone circles and see Avebury in a new light.
    Opening Times

    Saturday 8th September: 1000-1800

    Booking Details

    Please call 01672 538 015 to book a place on the tour.
    Access

    Parking bays for blue badge holders in Staff Car Park, close to facilities in Old Farmyard. Alternative parking for blue badge holders in Village Car Park for access to Stone Circle. Main car park is 350 metres from Old Farmyard.
    Additional information

    Max 25 people per tour. Charges apply for entry to Manor house and garden for non-NT members. Circle Cafe in Old Farmyard sells delicious hot meals, cream teas and snacks.

    Directions

    Between Swindon and Devizes on the A4361 North of the A4. SatNav users please use postcode SN8 1RD. Main Car Park Pay and Display: £5 all day, £3 after 3. National Trust/English Heritage members and Blue Badge holders no charge for parking. Regular 49 bus service from Swindon/ Trowbridge.

    Organised by The National Trust
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Avebury Reburial Request denied, human remains to remain in Avebury Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 April 2010
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After consideration of evidence and extensive consultation, English Heritage have decided that the prehistoric human remains in the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, should be kept in the museum for the benefit of public access and understanding.

These Neolithic human remains were excavated in the Avebury area by Alexander Keiller between 1929 and 1935. In 2006, Paul Davies of the Council of British Druid Orders requested their reburial. English Heritage and the National Trust followed the recently-published DCMS process in considering this request, and went out to public consultation in 2009 on a draft report which set out the evidence and different options.

English Heritage and the National Trust have now published a report on the results of this consultation, and a second report on the results of a public opinion survey. Our summary report concludes that the request should be refused for four main reasons:

* the benefit to future understanding likely to result from not reburying the remains far outweighs the harm likely to result from not reburying them;
* it does not meet the criteria set out by the DCMS for considering such requests;
* not reburying the remains is the more reversible option;
* the public generally support the retention of prehistoric human remains in museums, and their inclusion in museum displays to increase understanding.

Source:English Heritage, where you can read the full reports are at
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.19819
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Militant Druids fight museum over a 4,000-year-old skeleton called Charlie by coldrum on Friday, 23 January 2009
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A group of militant Druids has forced an expensive official inquiry after demanding that a museum releases a 4,000-year-old skeleton called 'Charlie' so they can rebury it.

They claim the bones of a young girl and seven other sets of prehistoric remains excavated near the ancient stone circle in Avebury, Wiltshire, are their 'tribal ancestors'.

If their claim is rejected, they have threatened to take a test case to the High Court under the Human Rights Act.

The row has triggered two years of meetings and reports by state-funded English Heritage and the charity The National Trust, which have been given powers by the Government to decide the case.

They are conducting a public consultation before issuing a judgment later this year. English Heritage said it could not estimate the cost but one source said: 'It could run into tens of thousands of pounds.'

Archaeologists fear that if the Druids' claims are successful, they could open the floodgates to increasingly bizarre demands, stripping museums of their collections.

Critics say the group making the claim, the Council of British Druids Orders, is unrepresentative and has hijacked legislation enacted after Tony Blair was lobbied to return Aboriginal remains kept in Britain, some of which were repatriated.

The Druids made their demand to the Alexander Keiller Museum in Avebury under the Human Tissue Act, which allows museums to return human remains.

They claim that remains in the museum include their ancestors Hawk, from the ancient Order of the Sidhe, and Lydia, Swordbearer of the Glastonbury Outer Order of Druids.

The Druids' reburials officer Paul Davies said: 'Our claim is based on ethics and the inextricable link between these our tribal ancestors and the landscape.'

Mr Davies admitted that his group was small and was itself split. A breakaway Arthurian Warband faction, led by the self-styled Uther Pendragon, who claims to be the reincarnation of King Arthur, demands an end to all archaeological digs around henges and barrows.

'The Warband split away from us so we have two groups calling themselves the Council of British Druid Orders,' said Mr Davies.

'But our group has a good relationship with English Heritage and The National Trust, who have held quarterly meetings with us and allowed us to have two beautiful healing sessions at the museum.'

Critics say modern Druids have very little connection with the ancient priests.

Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology, said: 'There are very small numbers who hold beliefs that they are chosen as Druids and have spiritual links with these places and the remains found in them.

'The notion that they should be custodians of these remains is preposterous. Some Druid groups are becoming increasingly militant and belligerent.'

Emma Restall Orr, a Druid priestess and founder of the more mainstream Honouring the Ancient Dead, said: 'The group making this claim is very small and some of their number are extremists.'

English Heritage said it recognised there were 'sensitive issues' involved and that it had to balance the claims of the Druids against the public interest.

A spokesman said: 'It is a test case and it is necessary to be thorough.'

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it had delegated powers to English Heritage and The National Trust and would not comment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120730/Militant-Druids-fight-museum-4-000-year-old-skeleton-called-Charlie.html?ITO=1490
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    Re: Militant Druids fight museum over a 4,000-year-old skeleton called Charlie by Andy B on Friday, 23 January 2009
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    In a poll that has been running for the last couple of month, our visitors agree strongly that this is a waste of time:

    What should be done with the human remains in Avebury Museum?

    Human Remains should stay on display in the museum 17.70 % (54)
    Take them off display but keep in museum for study 2.95 % (9)
    Rebury them in a way they are accessible for study 5.57 % (17)
    Rebury them forever in the World Heritage site 13.44 % (41)
    Modern Druids should have no say - waste of time! 60.33 % (184)

    http://www.megalithic.co.uk/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=59&mode=nested&order=1&thold=
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Avebury museum celebrates 70th by Andy B on Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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Impersonators recreate the raising of one of the stones at Avebury
The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Alexander Keiller Museum at Avebury was heralded by some less than serious goings on at the stone circle on Thursday.

To publicise the sale of tickets for the big celebration on June 1, National Trust staff at the ancient monument re-enacted the raising of one of the huge stones for the press last Thursday.

A polystyrene copy of one of the stones was solemnly raised using a primitive block-and-tackle system of pulleys, as Mr Keiller, the Dundee marmalade heir, would have used for his reconstruction of the site back in the 1930s.

When one of the huge stones, which had been dismantled and buried by monks from Avebury Abbey in the Middle Ages, was lifted by Keiller and his workers, the skeleton of a man was found.

From the tools found by the body, he was identified as a barber-surgeon and the group re-enacted that incident with visitor services manager Eleanor Eaton as the unfortunate medic.

The Trust promises a day packed with events on June 1.

Read more at This is Wiltshire
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