Visit
We are pleased to welcome visitors to our unique industrial heritage site
Find us
Trowbridge Museum & Art Gallery is situated in the Shires Shopping Centre, on the 2nd floor of Home Mills. For easy parking when visiting , use the car park next to Asda, which is accessed from Bythesea Road. Use the Shires Shopping Centre entrance close to ASDA. Head straight to Boswell’s Cafe, take the left fork and you will find us on your left.
Public transport
The museum is a 5 minute walk from Trowbridge Train Station
Access
Trowbridge Museum & Art Gallery welcomes all visitors with physical, sensory and learning disabilities. We have gone to every effort to make the museum accessible to all visitors and we are constantly looking at ways to improve this. Below are details of the facilities on offer, but it if you have any questions or concerns about access when visiting please contact us on the number at the bottom of the page or please email hannah.lyddy@trowbridge.gov.uk .
Busy times
The museum is busiest in the mornings and on Saturdays. School visits are usually in the morning and are finished by 2pm at the latest. During school holidays we are busiest when we have craft activities on, so please feel free to ring us to check if there is something on that day.
Accessible Guides / Easy Read
For more information about getting in to the museum, click here
To see how to use the lift, click here
For information about how to use our stairs, click here
To view a sensory map of the museum, click here
Facilities
- Event and meeting space for hire
- Exhibition space for hire
- Picnic facilities for visitors
- Toilets and baby changing facilities with disabled toilets on both floors
- For those using the stairs to access the museum – we have a winding staircase with 41 steps up to the first floor and then a further 23 steps from the first to the second floor
- Lift access to both floors – both floors are on level footing
Weave through 1000 years of history:
- Family activities and events
- The development of the woollen industry through our collection of textile machinery, including the Spinning Jenny, one of only 5 left in the world
- Trowbridge’s significance in the West of England wollen cloth industry
- The social and cultural history of the people of Trowbridge including poet George Crabbe and the inventor of Phonographic Shorthand Sir Isaac Pitman
- Spitfire production in World War II
- Innovative special exhibitions
Other significant and interesting collections include – the Aplin collection, Lansdown Collection, the Morrison Collection and the Taylor Collection. These and all our other collections can be viewed by the public – please get in touch using the contact form.
