Small community run museum and gardens at the birthplace of Victorian naturalist and author Richard Jefferies in Swindon, Wiltshire.
Official Mastodon account from the Richard Jefferies Museum, run by the Richard Jefferies Museum Trust. Moved from museum.community.
Many thanks to Asda for their very kind donation of gardening items - they will really come in handy this year!
We had the crew from Prime Theatre at the museum today, filming pieces for a project involving primary schools. These will be used prior to students coming to the museum on a trip!
The Richard Jefferies Society has planned a public walk and talk around Coate on 18th April, starting at the museum at 10.45am - come along for a pleasant constitutional!
The AGM follows at 1pm (members only), and then a public talk on Jefferies' post-apocalyptic novel After London (2.30pm). All are welcome to attend the talk.
https://www.richardjefferiessociety.org/2026/03/richard-jefferies-society-agm-and.html
More signs of spring, very welcome after such a wet winter!
"A flood of sunshine falling through a roof of rosy pink and delicate white blossom overhead; underneath, grass deeply green with the vigour of spring, dotted with yellow buttercups, and strewn with bloom shaken by the wind from the trees: is not this better than formal-patterned carpets, and the white flat ceilings that weigh so heavily upon the sight?"
Wild Life in a Southern County
We obviously aren't losing £137k a day when the forecast looks a bit iffy... BUT it does highlight one of our big issues here at the museum as most of our usable space is outdoors, and why we desperately need a new building!
'Misleading weather apps cost attractions thousands'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj18j09wvro
We are still trying to raise funds for the initial phases of the Centre for Arts and Wildlife. Please donate if you can!
https://www.richardjefferies.org/caw
What an utterly brilliant sculpture one of our volunteers, Freddie, made this week. 🤯
It could definitely do with a name, don't you think?
Spring is springing. 🌼
"The blackthorn is perhaps the first conspicuous flower..."
Wild Life in a Southern County
What a beautiful day to be outside!
"Those, therefore, who really wish their gardens or grounds, or any place, beautiful, must get that greatest of geniuses, Nature, to help them, and give their artist freedom to paint to fancy, for it is Nature's imagination which delights us—as I tried to explain about the tree, the imagination, and not the fact of the timber and sticks."
The Open Air
Environment | The Guardian US
Richard Jefferies Museum