What the heck is a lek?
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
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Our latest Impact Report outlines the achievements of our partnership 2023 – 2024. Measuring our impact helps us reflect and make a commitment to future progress. The report provides insights into the differences we have made, and outlines the significance of our work.
Kristina Broughton, Wessex Museums Chief Executive Officer, reflects:
“Particular highlights of 2023/24 were three temporary exhibitions and their associated programming with underserved audiences – Lest We Forget at Wiltshire Museum, Fashioning our World at The Salisbury Museum, and Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery – all supported by WMT.
All three exhibitions were successful for their respective museums for different reasons, whether to engage new, more diverse audiences, cocurate with communities, or create home grown blockbusters and grow visitor numbers – they demonstrate the breadth and depth of the partner museums’ offer, which WMT aims to enhance through the additional support and economies of scale we can provide by working in partnership.“
Photo: Awakened by Frink art workshop in progress, by Adam Millward.
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!