Learning
Hands-on at the museum
Every year at Avebury we celebrate the national Festival of British Archaeology. We run events for all the family, details of which can be found on our events page and on the Festival of British Archaeology website.
Interactive learning at the museum
The museum's Barn Gallery tells the story of the landscape through an interactive display with models and computers as well as objects to handle.
Outdoors learning at Avebury
Try to imagine how the huge stones of the circles at Avebury were brought here and put up by people with only the natural tools available to them around 4,500 years ago.
A researcher in the museum's archive
© NT/Rosamund Cleal
Research at the Alexander Keiller Museum
The collections held at the Alexander Keiller Museum are one of the most important prehistoric archaeological collections in Britain and are exceptional in being located on site.
The collections are primarily of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date, with a smaller component of Anglo-Saxon and later material. They include a large archive from excavations in and around Avebury and Windmill Hill in the 1920s and 1930s.
The museum library holds an extensive collection of archaeological publications, and the museum archive has much of the correspondence by the archaeologist and museum's founder Alexander Keiller.
The library and archive are open by appointment. Please email the curators.