May Half Term at Lydiard House Museum
27 May - 4 June
Visit the historic State Rooms of Lydiard House Museum this May half term to see our new special exhibition and take part in our new family activity!
Purchase your ticket online or from Lydiard House Museum when you arrive.
Our doors are open Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 4pm (last admission 3:30pm).
Admission costs £6 for an adult and £3.30 for a child. Family tickets are also available. Under 3s go free!
Time Travellers: Victorians
On Thursday 1st June, families are invited step back in time to discover what life might have been like for a child living at Lydiard House in the Victorian period.
Visitors will have the opportunity to handle types of domestic items used in the day-to-day running of the house and play with toys, as young Vernon (later 6th Viscount Bolingbroke) may have done at Lydiard Park in the 1890s.
This session is included with museum admission. To reserve your place, email: LydiardLearning@swindon.gov.uk
New Exhibition for 2023: Making Hay; Rural Life on the Lydiard Estate
In the 19th century, the Viscounts Bolingbroke owned more than fifteen farms in Lydiard Millicent and Lydiard Tregoze. This exhibition explores the lives and experiences of families who worked this land for generations.
The display features a range of previously unseen objects, as well as photographs showing agricultural labourers working the land on the Main Lawn of Lydiard Park, Upper Shaw Farm, Creeches Farm, Windmill Leaze Farm and other locations on the Lydiard estate.