Truth Or Folly

Wycombe Museum

Truth or Folly, at Wycombe Museum, is the collective’s second major exhibition and runs from March 2026 to February 2027.

The project responds to the mysterious, half-known and often overlooked stories embedded within the museum’s historic home, Castle Hill House, and the surrounding area. Drawing on local social history, folklore and imagined narratives, the collective brings fact and fiction together to create alternative timelines and speculative myths.

The exhibition features newly commissioned work across painting, sculpture, print, photography and sonic art. The artists took inspiration from local sites and stories including Saxon burial grounds, the Hellfire Caves, ancient woodlands and the eccentric architecture of Castle Hill House, alongside myths of giants, ghosts and fictitious UFO landings.

Truth or Folly invites visitors to see familiar places anew: as sites alive with memory, mystery and untold stories.

The exhibition is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support from Opportunity Bucks.

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