Trowbridge Museum is open Tuesday - Friday from 10 - 4 and Saturdays 10 - 4.30

Trowbridge History Website

This website for schools, www.trowbridgehistory.co.uk, will help both pupils and teachers to learn more about the fascinating history of Trowbridge. It contains a wealth of information, including photographs, maps, census returns and video. This free website was funded by the Local Heritage Initiative.

About Trowbridge Museum

The Trowbridge Museum was opened in July 1990 and is located on the second floor of Salter’s Mill. This was the last working woollen Mill in Trowbridge and did not shut until 1982. Today both Museum and Mill have been incorporated into the Shires Shopping Centre. The Museum’s unique location provides many advantages, not least ample parking, shelter from the elements and lifts and escalators for those that might require them. And admission is free!!

The museum tells the fascinating story of Trowbridge's people and past. The woollen industry played a crucial part in the town's development and working textile looms are on display. We even produce and sell our own work.

Other displays include a reconstruction of the town's medieval castle and a timeline highlighting Trowbridge's past from the medieval period through to the Second World War. There are also reconstructions of a Weaver's Cottage and Taylors, a draper's shop. Other displays include the history of Brewing and the Life and Works of Sir Isaac Pitman, Trowbridge's most famous son. There are plenty of child-friendly interactives too. 

Why not pay a visit.

Admission is free.

Trowbridge Museum is open Tuesday - Friday from 10 till 4

and Saturdays 10 till 4.30

Visit the Museum Website