Salisbury Museum aiding mental health

Salisbury Museum is working with three organisations in the city to support people in the community with mental health needs.

Two women working on an inkwash painting.

An increased awareness of arts and heritage’s ability to positively impact mental health and wellbeing prompted The Salisbury Museum to become part of Well-City Salisbury. This Heritage Lottery-funded initiative is a partnership of the museum, ArtCare at Salisbury District Hospital, Wessex Archaeology and Wiltshire Creative.

Here Amy Hammett, Community Curator, and Emma Gascoigne, Project Coordinator of Well-City Salisbury, outline the challenges, processes and benefits of running a programme to support local people with mental health issues. Their project is one of 16 case studies featured in a national study by the Baring Foundation, Creatively Minded at the Museum. Amy also did a podcast about the project with Leigh Chalmers of Wessex Archaeology.

Sawfish are also called carpenter sharks...but they are rays, not sharks!

There’s also a species called a sawshark, but that’s, well, a shark!

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.

Road Runner!

The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.

Belly Buster!

The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!

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