List of museums in Suffolk

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This list of museums in Suffolk, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Museums

NameImageTown/CityRegionTypeSummary
Aldeburgh Museum Aldeburgh Suffolk Coastal Local website, located in the 16th century moot hall, local history, culture, trades, industry
Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Southwold Waveney Maritime website, home to the former Southwold lifeboat "Alfred Corry", exhibits and artefacts about lifesaving and area maritime history
Amber Shop and MuseumSouthwoldWaveneyNatural history website, shop with museum about amber, and amber artefacts, carvings, jewellery and objets d'art
The Apex Bury St Edmunds St Edmundsbury Art website, performing arts centre, includes Apex Art Gallery for contemporary art exhibitions
Bardwell Windmill Bardwell St EdmundsburyMillEarly 19th-century tower windmill
Bawdsey Manor Bawdsey Manor - geograph.org.uk - 533542.jpg Bawdsey Suffolk CoastalMilitaryFeatures the Transmitter Block and "Magic Ear" exhibit about RAF Bawdsey and the radar activities during World War II and the Cold War
Beccles & District Museum Beccles WaveneyLocal website, local history, culture
Bentwaters Cold War Museum War Operations Room, RAF Bentwaters.jpg Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalMilitaryHistory of RAF Bentwaters in World War II and the Cold War
Brandon Heritage Centre Brandon Forest Heath Local information, local history, culture
Bungay Museum Bungay WaveneyLocal website, local history, culture
Buttrum's Mill Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge.jpg Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalMillMid-19th-century tower windmill
Christchurch Mansion Christchurch Mansion.jpg Ipswich IpswichMultipleStately home with fine art, decorative arts in period room displays, toys and dolls
Clare Ancient House Museum Clare - Ancient House.jpg Clare St EdmundsburyLocal14th-15th-century house with exhibits of local history and archaeology
Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter IpswichIpswichHistory World War II underground air raid shelter with period supplies and artefacts
Dunwich Museum Dunwich Suffolk CoastalLocal website, local history, culture, story of its decline due to coastal erosion
East Anglia Transport Museum Ex-Bournemouth-202.jpg Carlton Colville WaveneyTransportationHistoric public transport vehicles including buses, trams and trolleybuses, a narrow gauge railway
Easton Farm Park Easton Suffolk CoastalFarm website
Euston Hall Euston St EdmundsburyHistoric house17th century manor, collection of fine art, park by William Kent and Capability Brown
Felixstowe Museum Felixstowe Suffolk CoastalMultipleArea military and social history, located in Landguard Fort
Flatford: Bridge Cottage Bridge Cottage Flatford.jpg Flatford Babergh Historic houseOperated by the National Trust, 16th-century thatched cottage with exhibits about John Constable and his paintings of the area
Framlingham Castle Franglingham Castle 01.jpg Framlingham Suffolk CoastalHistoric houseOperated by English Heritage, 12th-century fortress remains, exhibits about its history
Gainsborough's House Gainsborough House, Sudbury - geograph.org.uk - 233711.jpg Sudbury BaberghArtBirthplace of artist Thomas Gainsborough, collection of his paintings, drawings and prints, temporary art exhibitions
Greene King Visitor Centre Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyFoodHistory, artefacts and shop of the brewery [1]
Halesworth Museum Halesworth WaveneyLocal website, local history, located in the Halesworth railway station
Haverhill Local History Centre Haverhill St EdmundsburyLocal website, local history, located in the Haverhill Arts Centre
Herringfleet Windmill Herringfleet mill.jpg Herringfleet WaveneyMillEarly 19th century smock windmill
HMS Ganges Museum Bures BaberghMaritime website, history and artefacts from the training ships associated with the shore establishment HMS Ganges
Ickworth House, Park & Garden Ickworth House 04.jpg Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, country house with collections of paintings, portraits, Regency furniture, Huguenot silver and more, gardens and park
Ipswich Art School GalleryIpswichIpswichArt website
Ipswich Maritime Trust Window MuseumIpswichIpswichMaritime website, window exhibits of town's maritime heritage
Ipswich Museum Ipswich Museum.jpg IpswichIpswichMultipleArchaeology, Roman Britain and Ancient Egypt, local history, natural history, ethnography
Ipswich Transport Museum Carters Enviro400.JPG IpswichIpswichTransportationArea transportation history, includes buses, trams, commercial vehicles, fire apparatus, mobile cranes, bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, prams and wheelchairs, most manufactured in the area
Kentwell Hall Kentwell 01.jpg Long Melford BaberghHistoric houseElizabethan stately home and outbuildings with a rare breeds farm and gardens
Landguard Fort Felixstowe - Landguard Fort.jpg Felixstowe Suffolk CoastalMilitaryHistoric fort in use since the 16th century until the 1950s, also includes the Felixstowe Museum
Lanman Museum Framlingham Suffolk CoastalLocal https://lanmanmuseum.uk/ website, located at Framlingham Castle, local history, history of the castle, agriculture, social history
Lavenham Guildhall Lavenham BaberghHistoryOperated by the National Trust, medieval guild hall with exhibits on the local cloth industry, farming and agriculture
Laxfield & District Museum Laxfield Mid Suffolk Military information
Little Hall Lavenham Lavenham BaberghHistoric house website, 14th century Tudor house
Long Shop Museum Long Shop Museum, Leiston - geograph.org.uk - 184752.jpg Leiston Suffolk CoastalIndustryHistory of Richard Garrett & Sons a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses.
Lowestoft Maritime Museum Lowestoft WaveneyMaritime website, maritime artefacts, ship models, marine art, fishing and fishing industry, activities with the Royal Navy in WW II, shipwrights and coopers tools
Lowestoft MuseumLowestoftWaveneyLocal website, local history, 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain, fossils, maritime heritage, industries, culture, social history
Lowestoft War Memorial Museum LowestoftWaveneyMilitaryArea military history during World War I and World War II
Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalAviation website, history of RAF Martlesham Heath
Mechanical Music Museum at Cotton Cotton Mid SuffolkMusic website, collection of automatic musical instruments and cinema memorabilia
Melford Hall Long Melford - Melford Hall.jpg Long Melford BaberghHistoric houseOperated by the National Trust, stately home reflecting two centuries of family life, ties to Beatrix Potter
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum Falmouth Docks number 3 Middy.jpg Wetheringsett Mid SuffolkRailwayHeritage railway and museum with locomotives, artefacts
Mildenhall Museum Mildenhall Forest HeathLocal website, local history, natural wildlife, the history of RAF Mildenhall, replicas of the Mildenhall Treasure, archaeology
Mincarlo Trawler Mincarlo, Lowestoft, 13th June 2009 (17).JPG Lowestoft WaveneyMaritimeSidewinder fishing trawler museum ship
Moyse's Hall Museum Bury St Edmunds - Moyses Hall.jpg Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyMultiple website, local history, culture, clocks and watches, costumes and textiles, fine and decorative arts, Suffolk Regiment gallery
Museum of East Anglian Life Eastbridge windpump.jpg Stowmarket Mid SuffolkOpen airAgricultural history of East Anglia, includes Eastbridge Windpump, agriculture machinery, scenes from the 1950s including shops scenes, kitchens, living rooms and a Victorian schoolroom, blacksmith forge, trades, watermill, chapel, carpentry and engineering workshops, steam engines
Museum of Knots and Sailors' RopeworkIpswichIpswichMaritime website, open by appointment, art and skill of ropeworking
National Horseracing Museum Newmarket Forest HeathSportsHistory of horse racing in Britain, houses the British Horseracing Hall of Fame and the Vestey Gallery of British Sporting Art
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Gloster Javelin at Flixton Aviation Museum 1430588 56169334-by-Ashley-Dace.jpg Flixton WaveneyAviationHistoric aircraft, history of RAF Bungay and regimental collections of the units that served there, area aviation history, aviation history and artefacts from World War II
Orford Castle Orford Ness, Castle - geograph.org.uk - 28461.jpg Orford Suffolk CoastalHistoric houseOperated by English Heritage, medieval castle keep, houses the Orford Museum's' exhibits of local archaeological artefacts, the castle's history and borough regalia
Pakenham Windmill Pakenham windmill.jpg Pakenham St EdmundsburyMillMid-19th-century tower windmill
Parham Airfield Museum Framlingham Suffolk CoastalMilitaryHistory of the airfield's activities in World War II, in particular the 390th Bombardment Group and the British Resistance Organisation
Rougham Control Tower MuseumBury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyMilitary website, restored World War II control tower and Quonset hut with exhibits and memorabilia of RAF Bury St Edmunds
Royal Naval Patrol Service MuseumLowestoftWaveneyMaritime website, history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service and their local activities in World War II
Saxmundham Museum Saxmundham Suffolk CoastalLocal information, local history, replica of local shops, jail cell, culture exhibits
Saxtead Green Post Windmill Saxtead Green Windmill.jpg Framlingham Suffolk CoastalMillOperated by English Heritage, 19th century post windmill
Smith's Row Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyArt website, contemporary art gallery
Somerleyton Hall Somerleyton Hall 2.jpg Somerleyton WaveneyHistoric houseTudor-Jacobean stately home, gardens
Southwold Lighthouse Southwold new.JPG Southwold WaveneyMaritimeLighthouse museum
Southwold MuseumSouthwoldWaveneyLocal website, local history, natural history, geology, industries, railway, maritime heritage, archaeology
Southwold Sailors' Reading Room Southwold Sailors' Reading Room - geograph.org.uk - 126095.jpg Southwold WaveneyMaritime website, marine art, photos, models and other memorabilia of the local fishermen and sailors
St Edmundsbury Cathedral St edmundsbury cathedral.jpg Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyMultipleHistoric cathedral, includes the Edmund Gallery for art exhibits, and the Cathedral Treasures exhibits of religious regalia and artefacts
Sudbury Heritage Centre & Museum Sudbury BaberghLocal website, local history
Suffolk Regiment Museum Bury St EdmundsSt EdmundsburyMilitaryRegimental uniforms, weapons, artefacts and memorabilia
Suffolk Underwater Studies Museum Orford Suffolk CoastalMaritime website, marine archaeology, items recovered from the ocean, information
Sutton Hoo 2008-05-17-SuttonHoo Burial.jpg Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalArchaeologyOperated by the National Trust, artefacts from the ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king and his most treasured possessions
Thelnetham Windmill Thelnetham Windmill.jpg Thelnetham St EdmundsburyMillEarly 19th-century tower windmill
Upthorpe Mill Upthorpe Mill, Stanton.jpg Stanton St EdmundsburyMillMid 18th century post windmill
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village West Stow St EdmundsburyOpen airRecreated Anglo-Saxon village, archaeological artefacts found at the site, exhibits of Anglo-Saxon life and culture
Woodbridge Museum Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalLocal information, local history, archaeology, trade, roads, housing, religion and education
Woodbridge Tide Mill Woodbridge Tide Mill (1).jpg Woodbridge Suffolk CoastalMillOperational tide mill
Woolpit Museum Woolpit Mid SuffolkLocal website, local history, brickmaking, located in a 17th-century cottage

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References

  1. ↑ "Greene King Brewery". Greene King. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Cavendish". Suffolk Tourist Guide. Retrieved 22 March 2015. In 1979, the Queen Mother opened the Sue Ryder Foundation Museum in Cavendish, with exhibitions that included Lady Ryder's war uniforms and a reconstruction of her mother's room. Unfortunately the museum is no longer there.
  3. ↑ "The Museum". Suffolk Horse Society. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015. Following the end of the lease at the Shire Hall, Woodridge, The Suffolk Heavy Horse Museum has now closed and the contents disbursed following guidelines set out by the Museum's Association.
  4. ↑ "Fears over print museum's future". BBC News. 19 February 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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