Photos of the Museum

There is a new book out now that is a collection of the 5 booklets published during the Centenial of WW1 (2014 - 2018), and the 1st World War Exhibit (on now). 110 pages. £10 + p&p. See shop page.

Our site for those

visually impaired

Some of our Volunteers

Education Team - dressing up!

Pictures children drew after attending a talk at the Museum

Thank you to all of our Volunteers for working so tirelessly to keep the Museum running smoothly.

Welcome to Spelthorne Museum Wednesday, June 12th 2019: Just to let you know that the whole Museum is temporarily closed right now due to the roof in the Library caving in close to the entrance. Update: June 19th 2019: Due to the work not being finished on the roof, because of all of the rain, the Spelthorne Museum will stay closed today (Wednesday) and tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience. More news as I get it. Please see our latest event below.

Latest Talk
There will be no more talks until later in the year.

Our Latest Exhibit

The Changing Face of Staines High Street

Open: Saturday, January 12th to Sunday, June 30th

Everyone is invited. Always Free.

This Exhibit is located in the Thames Room of the Museum. Opening Times can be found HERE

At the May 2019 AGM the following members were elected on to the Committee:
Chair - Pam Cole
Vice-Chair - Sheila Montague
Treasurer - Julia Gibbs
Secretary/Editor - To be found
Committee - D. Hallé, C Mitchell, M Taylor
Volunteer Representative/Web-master - G Hazell
Museum Mentor - R Ferneley
Curator - Nick Pollard

Spelthorne Archaeology and Local History Group
SALHG are the trustees of Spelthorne Museum. By becoming a member you can enjoy previews of museum exhibitions, social events and have the opportunity to help in the work of the museum.

During winter months there are talks on archaeological or social history items. A quarterly newsletter keeps members up to date.

Members of SALHG receive a quarterly magazine called 'The Museum' which contains museum news, forthcoming events and articles written by members.

The SALHG Board members after receiving the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2016
Left side: Rowena (SPARKS), Sheila, Nick, Pam,
Right side: Peter, Jenny (Secretary), Christine (SPARCS), Julia (Chair), Jackie (Curator), Gloria (Vol Co-ordinator/ Website Manager). Missing from photo Derick, Sue,

Remember
Out of hours group visits to the Museum can be arranged.
Also members can visit your group to give illustrated talks on various local history subjects.
See 'Education' for further details

Spelthorne Museum is divided into two rooms. The Elmsleigh Room is opened by Staines Library staff and has the history of Spelthorne from the Ice Age to Modern Times. To provide visitors with something different there are two display areas which are changed frequently.

Window on Spelthorne
Is a small display case near the Fire Exit and changes roughly every month.

Big Blue Board
The second area in the Elmsleigh Room to have a varying subject is a display board (sadly called 'The Big Blue Board', because that is what it is!).

Temporary Exhibition Area
The second of Spelthorne Museum's two rooms is the Thames Room. This is opened when volunteers are on duty and as well as further displays and the Museum Shop it has the Temporary Exhibition area. The Museum aims to have two temporary exhibitions a year. The Thames Room is open Wednesdays and Fridays 2pm - 4pm and Saturdays 1:30pm - 4:30pm (First Saturday of the month only is early opening at 11 am)

We have just revamped the website adding some brand new pages, do please take a look at the Queen's Award page, the Accessibility page, the photos of Staines page and the Lino page. There is also a map page showing how to get to us, people are always saying to us that they didn't know that we are located through the Library, on the map page we show photos of our building related to everywhere else around us.