WHAT’S THERE?
The new construction at Airman’s Corner comprises the visitor building designed by Denton Corker Marshall, an ancillary building, coach and car parks, and shuttle embarkation point. The galleries, café, shop and toilets
are housed in a pair of single-storey ‘pods’ – one glass, one timber-enclosed – beneath an undulating canopy roof that reflects the rolling hills of Salisbury Plain. Local materials have been used wherever possible, including locally-grown FSC timber, sweet chest- nut cladding and Salisbury limestone. The building will be linked to the
Stones by a low-key visitor shuttle sys- tem running along the existing road surface of the A344 (now closed to public traffic). By Easter 2014, a clus- ter of Neolithic houses will open as an external exhibition beside the centre, recreated using rare evidence of domes-
The 3D exhibit takes visitors back through three key historic periods
tic buildings from prehistoric England recently unearthed near Stonehenge. During the first half of 2014, the
existing car park, visitor buildings, road and fencing close to the Monument will be demolished and grassed over
INSIDE THE CENTRE A 360-degree virtual, immersive expe- rience will let visitors ‘stand in the
stones’ before they enter a gallery presenting facts and theories surround- ing the monument through various displays and nearly 300 prehistoric artefacts. Archaeological finds on dis- play are on loan from the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, the Wiltshire Museum, and the Duckworth Collection, University of Cambridge. All were found inside the World Heritage Site and many are on public display for the first time. One of the highlights is a forensic
reconstruction of an early Neolithic man, based on a 5,500-year-old skel- eton from a burial site near Stonehenge. Also on display will be two rare 14th Century manuscripts, including some of the earliest drawings of the monument, Roman coins and jewellery, and early surveying equipment ‘Set in Stone? How our ancestors
saw Stonehenge’, is the first tempo- rary exhibition, charting centuries of debate – from 12th-century legends to radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
Jan 2008 Government asks EH to draw up a new scheme
Oct 2009
EH submits planning application for a visitor centre at Airman’s Corner. Permission granted in June 2010
Jan 2012 All road orders to close the A344 granted
July 2012 Work on the new visitor centre begins
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June 2013 Work to decommission the A344 starts
Dec 2013 New visitor centre opens
Jan 2014 Existing car park and facilities start to be removed
June 2014 Landscape near Stonehenge will be restored; project completed
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