Messums West in Wiltshire

Amazing location and beautiful setting.

Contemporary British sculpture exhibition is excellent & well worth a visit, catch it whilst you can

Interesting exhibitions. Friendly place.

Great spaces & wonderful barns filled with artistic delights

A great place, totally inspiring...two more fab exhibitions...and a glass of wine on the terrace in the sun👍

Great place to visit with lovely cafe and lots of exhibition space to explore inside and outside. The Tithe barn is a work of art in itself.

Most enjoyable exhibition of Elizabeth Frink sculptures and drawings plus other artists. An excellent lunch and good coffee.

Awesome little place I'm definitely going to be a regular, well done everyone. By the way your cakes are amazing

Beautiful surroundings, historical tithe barn, cafe and gallery.

I love Messums one of my favourite places and it never disappoints.

Brilliant. A Truly great find.....don't tell anyone!

As a dog lover I was concerned to hear that a local family’s small dog was attacked and injured in the cafe at Messums West by the owner’s dog, and the lack of responsibility shown by the owner in their comments here is disappointing. A shame when regular customers are treated this way. I’ve visited Messums West and had a good time, but definitely less inclined to go back now.

We are locals who have enjoyed many regular visits to Messums West, until an incident last weekend. On Sunday we went to the cafe with our small dog and out of the blue she was viciously attacked by the owner’s dog who was wandering around not on a lead. The staff in there took immediate action as she screamed, and helped pull the dog off. Our poor dog had been bitten badly on her face and was bleeding, thankfully it was not worse. The owner, who was on the premises was told of the incident, he then made a brief appearance in the cafe and made a general apology but by not coming directly up to us, it was clear he wanted to minimise the incident. To add insult to injury, we were still charged for the coffees. We shan’t be going back anytime soon and if you’re thinking of going there and you have a small dog, please be aware.

Really lovely place but make sure you're prepared for a pricey experience! We stopped for coffee and cake (5 of us and we didn't all have cake) and the bill was well over £50! 😬

Thought provoking displays! London artwork comes to Tisbury in a beautiful setting and gallery spaces

Good sculptures and art, nice tithe barn and a lovely random find (thanks Google maps!) in beautiful picturesque area.

Wonderful space for art, not very crowded on a Friday morning. Lovey restaurant for a light lunch.

Stunningly beautiful building with interesting exhibitions. The staff are lovely and friendly. A good way to spend a few hours whether it's enjoying the sculptures outside on a sunny day, or the artwork in the galley and tithe barn when it's cold and rainy. Just bare in mind it's a cashless venue. Caught me out once and was unable to use the cafe.

Spent a lovely few hours here. What a gem to find! Lovely coffee to start, browsing the gallery inside and out and a fabulous light lunch in the restaurant (the Budda Bowl was outstanding) - great service and value for money.

Always worth a trip here, regardless of the time of year. Haven't been disappointed yet with the great art on display

A wonderful space, used intelligently for the installations

Lovely spot. Great art. FANTASTIC 750 year old barn. Place on the up

My girlfriend and I had a lovely walk around, the exhibits, and found it all amazing.

Beautiful location loved this place highly recommended

I've been several times and it's just gets better and better each time. Even if you're not into art the barn is a wonder itself.

Great afternoon out. Lots 9f interesting art pieces to see, and good coffee and cake too.

By coincidence came across this museum. It was closed so we decided to walk the grounds and have a look at all kind of statues. Quite surprised because some are really fun! Then we came across a employee who invited us in a gallery and saw the beautiful work of a paper artist.

Not really geared up for the disabled. Having said that, had a good disabled toilet, reached by not very wheelchair-friendly gravel.

A bit of a random find on our way down south, lovely art on display and fantastic buildings. Cute doggo in the grounds who wanted to play.

The environment is beautiful, the artwork is amazing, and I really want to try their restaurant food.

Just... Wow. The barn is astonishing. Superb 1/3 of an acre interior in a c.13th century space, well-used to display: The art: almost as good. Remarkable sculptures by Lawrence Edwards had us puzzled and entertained, and oh to have c.£12k spare to buy a marble facsimile of a traffic cone. Great stuff.

Amazing place, beautiful exhibits amid a glorious setting. Food and coffee weren't bad either !

Some beautiful sculptures outside a very well renovated barn. On the other hand, quite a snobbish place

We live just up the road from this beautiful building. It's a great place to visit and view works of art in I believe the largest thatched building in England.

It's a very interesting gallery in a wonderful setting

Great spaces in the tithe barn & gallery - good for small conference on how to shake up our current approaches to reversing climate change and nature decline (terrific keynote by Jonathan Porritt). Hope Messums arrange more events like this - as well as their very well-curated modern art & craft exhitbiions.

We had a gorgeous meal yesterday at Messums. It is a gem of a place which also has contemporary art littered around the place and it had an exhibition in the tithe barn. My wife had the watercress and wild garlic risotto and I had the saddle of lamb with "lamb bun". Beautifully fresh ingredients perfectly cooked an presented. We highly recommend giving it a try.

Cafe with a limited choice but very pleasant service, art gallery in fantastic listed tithe barn (take your credit card!), outdoor sculptures, plenty of room for parking. Worth a visit 😁

It was different, and they were changing over the displays, so not much to see. The food was nice, but there were small portions. It was very cold in the barn cafe, but pleasant.

Great Friendly people There on business But great site

We had a fabulous lunch at Messums. The staff were lovely; relaxed but highly professional and helpful. The food was classy and truly delicious. When we left I passed a customer outside who was raving about one of the dishes. I joined in. The marks I gave for the food are: Roast pepper and tomato soup with cheese toastie 10/10. The soup was far from the pureed vegetable sludge you often get. It was a smooth rich and zingy veloute, so delicious I am salivating as I write. The cheese toastie made with smoked cheese was, literally, the best toasted cheese sandwich we have both ever had. Vegetable pithivier 9/10. The pastry was perfect, the sauce was was luscious. The filling was great but not quite mind blowing. Roasted plaice with pickled mussels, new potatoes and samphire. 9/10. Really perfectly cooked fish, browned on both sides, which is rare for plaice. The accompaniments were all lovely. I would have preferred less butter on the plate for a roasted piece of fish but that's just my personal preference; hence the 9. Dessert, deconstructed caramelised pineapple and passion fruit cheesecake with meringue. I would normally give a 2 for deconstructed anything...what's the point..and meringue with all the other sweet things should have made for an oversweet dish. However, I gave this a 10/10. Every mouthful was dreamy. The meringue was not too sweet and actually really tasty. I would travel some distance for food like this. We drove 32 miles and will do so again soon. Well done guys.

An exceptional meal at Messums Restaurant! Before I review, I will be completely honest and say that my son works in the front of house at The Mess Restaurant, but frankly that tends to make me more discerning, more critical and much harder to please! I also work in a very different part of the food industry and that also helps me to understand good food when I taste it! I took my elderly mother and my husband here yesterday for a roast dinner and it really was delicious. The offering was a traditional roast dinner of 42-day aged rib eye beef on the menu, along with a whole host of other options on a Sunday, we all went for the roast beef option and were not only impressed by the cooking but thoroughly delighted with the wonderful choice of good quality produce which made for one of the tastiest roast dinners we had in years! Needless to say, the service was impeccable too :-) but truly, honestly the whole team should be a very proud of what they are all doing as they doing it so well!

Brilliant space, and the Laurance Edwards exhibition was stunning 😍

Wonderful installation of Laurence Edwards sculptures. Recommended. Beautiful setting.

Amazing gallery in the countryside. If in area visit.

I really like this gallery. The thatched tithe barn where the main exhibition is held is a fascinating and beautiful structure. It is used very well to bring the art to life. The cafe is very pleasant for a coffee but seemed limited for vegetarian options. Staff throughout are friendly and helpful.

Gorgeous place just wish there was more information available for visitors.

Great Exhibition spaces, including the Tithe Barn, very pleasant catering and interesting exhibitions. Free to enter. Well worth a visit but you'll need a good map or sat nav.

Very friendly, would have liked bigger coffee cups, but nice coffee

Lovely spot. Interesting art and sculpture. Very good food. Fresh produce.

Beautiful location in Tisbury Wiltshire with a Restaurant and Art Gallery which is free to walk around! I would definitely recommend visiting!

We found this place by accident, Messums sculpture and art gallery in amazing Old barn setting, also great food at The Mess Restaurant on the same site, we sat at a table outside and has pulled lamb flatbread which was delicious. Highly recommended.

Great day out, very adult environment free parking and beautiful walks in the surrounding area.

Fantastic gallery and restaurant. The staff were very friendly, the food and coffee were excellent. Resident spaniel Sultana was very charming and attentive

Lovely location and excellent food. Nice selection of cakes with great coffee. Tea selection may be limited for some, However staff are superb at offering Substitute offerings. Meals are great and change weekly..

Lovely venue, lovely staff, friendly dogs and good coffee

Friendly staff and interesting displays in a magnificent restored barn

Warm welcome from staff, extensive display of home made cakes. Good coffee. Excellent loos.

Beautifully managed, inspirational space. I ended up here at an evening event. I am really looking forward to seeing this wonderful space in the daytime. Thank you to the management team for looking after this really unique building.

Very interesting place in the middle of…….

Always something interesting and beautiful to see here. I love it. Also, a wonderful place to treat visiting friends to a coffee or lunch - the café is staffed by the most delightful, friendly crew. Lucky us, who live near Tisbury, to have this place on our doorstep. And if you don't, then it's worth planning a trip. Best to check the opening hours, however, on the website.

Is this the same sculpture in North York Moors National Park?

WONDERFUL PLACE. We met with friends there and saw an Elizabeth Frink exhibition which was super interesting in a stunning barn. Afterwards had lunch in the Mess delivering a very delicious meal in beautiful surroundings. Friendly welcoming staff.

Expensive admission for the size of gallery which seems to currently have limited exhibits. The member of staff in the barn was lovely as were both gents in the tea room. Unfortunately, both ladies in the photography exhibit were quite rude and unwelcoming to us but enthusiastic and over friendly to other visitors. Really disappointing behaviour.

Superb Dame Elisabeth Frink "Man is an animal" exhibition.

The grounds were really interesting and free. We arrived too late for the tea rooms. Entrance to the gallery was expensive.

A great gallery that hosts high quality exhibitions and events in a very attractive location.

Some of the art work could have been done by a three year old ! Expensive to get in . Clean (apart from the cobwebs on the bronze statues ) . Friendly staff. Didn't try the cafe so can't make a comment.

I've been a couple of times and the exhibitions have been high quality. The cafe is excellent and the location is gorgeous. The sculptures outside Messums are always intriguing and high impact. Highly recommended

Fantastic experience at this tucked away little gem.The art work on display was enthralling but what made mine and my family’s experience the best and the reason we would come back would be the our server Sharron despite the ghastly weather (tipping it down)Sharron stood there and informed us on places of interest and the nearby villages of this place. would definitely recommend this this small restaurant.

Dessert very disappointing chocolate something dry and very thin chocolate sauce However the Exhibits the Grounds are always as beautiful as ever never been disappointed in the Events held there

Excellent restaurant to go with the most stunning of gallery spaces. Well worth the visit

We were passing by on a bike ride and popped in for lunch. Absolutely beautiful surroundings but we were very disappointed by the portion size and cost of the food. We ordered, as a main course, salmon quiche with a leaf salad, at £9. What we got was a small slice of quiche and a few green salad leaves. The quiche was delicious but with no accompaniments (such as new potatoes) it was not at all filling and completely overpriced.

Didn't look round the installations, due to Covid. Maybe sometime in the future.

Lovely interlude during the pandemic-great art in a beautiful setting!

Great place a wonderful historic barn and spot. MESSUMS WILTSHIRE has put on some fabulous shows watch out for the 'membership fee' however

Always a great place to go for a walk, enjoy the sculptures, visit an exhibition or take a ramble through the nearby fields. Great food and drink too!

A great visit to see Elizabeth Frink's studio and catching much else besides, and the terrific venue itself.

Was 5 star Amazing place but unfortunately the entire building caught fire during lock down not sure if they have moved to another part of the building for now as it's going to cost 100s of thousands to repair over a very long period work has yet to start but they do have an amazing shaped tent that's huge and doing food on a fire

What a find! We stopped for lunch and the food was fantastic. I was super impressed with the no dairy, glutin free chocolate cake with the plant based ice cream. Would love to go again. Need to find an excuse to be in the area again.

Our first visit after months of being locked down. The new, wonderfully light, airy and welcoming restaurant was a real pleasure. Delicious food and drink; a perfect accompaniment to sculptor Elisabeth Frink's work. Give yourself a treat!

Had no idea this was here, and was blown away by it. Great exhibition space, quality art. Good cafe. Go for coffee and cake if in the area

Fantastic art, beautiful huge 12 century barn.

A fantastic gallery. Usually free admission. Great cafe albeit a tad pricey.

Fabulous space, delicious food - time very well spent.

Absolutely amazing food, popped in for a spot of lunch, brilliant location too. Update February 2020: I visited this place again for lunch on Saturday 22/02/2020 and had an unusual experience. We ordered for our food, paid for it and waited. Drinks came to our table about 10 mins after ordering, but the food was nowhere to be seen. The waiter then came back to us, after about 45 mins wait and said "I apologize for the delay but my colleague didn't put your order through to the kitchen so I will do you a favor and not charge you for half the meal." I pointed out to him that I had already paid for the meal at the start and he said he will speak to his manager about it. We had ordered the Thali plate and pork belly. When the food eventually came out the rice on the Thali plate seemed over cooked. Every thing else was okay. We finished eating and I approached the waiter on our wait out to see if he had spoken with his manager, to which his reply was "I am sorry for telling you that we would not charge you for half of the food, my manager told me off for it as I should have not said that to you." I told him it was fine and just walked out. Bless him. I just felt this could have been handled better, even if the manager had come out themselves to speak to us about it.

What an unexpected surprise. The buildings are fantastic. The ceramic and porcelain event is outstanding.

Visited several times. Just wonderful gallery based in historic barn. Adjacent new studio with nice little cafe . Large free parking area. I Been to several exhibitions. Very interesting. Promoting original upcoming artists . Very inspirational. Great experience. Would highly recommend

Went with a friend to see some art, which was well displayed and excellent, as was the lunch (not cheap, but well above the norm). The staff were good, and very friendly. Only one building was open, we'll be back when the other is too.

An amazing space, top quality art, professional establishment

Wonderful light show, from Bruce Munro,

Fabulous place, incredible modern exhibitions. Light Show was wonderful.

Kurt Jackson exhibition is outstanding.

Amazing exhibitions and great soups

Let me check when I can come back..

Gorgeous building and an amazing visual and sound exhibition plus a great gallery, what beautiful art, an experience not to miss.

Marvellous situation & incredible exhibition

The Bruce Munro exhibition was excellent. We heard the restaurant was also good but unfortunately was quite disappointed. Reasons being: - it came out immediately after ordering so clearly pre prepared and q expensive considering. - staff were really not switched and on we consistently waited for menus/service and bill. There is a lot of improvement with service to make this experience far better across the board.

Such a beautiful building to exhibit contemporary sculpture. The ‘Long Gallery’ next door is a play on a white cube displaying existing and upcoming 2 and 3D artists. Such a dynamic exploration into contemporary art. Well done Johnny Messum and team!

Messums offers a series of beautifully restored barns house with well-considered and curated artworks from a wide range of artists. It is situated in a glorious valley with sheep dotted around the countryside. The shop has a small range of justifiably-expensive ceramics and fabrics. The cafe is equally expensive and exquisite, but with a delicious but limited menu of vegetarian food. My only gripe is charging us an extra £2 for bread. Worth a visit.