Museums in Suffolk
The former Bentwaters airbase is home to a fascinating museum of Cold war history, based in the United States Air Force 'hardened' command post. See this former top-secret high-security military installation as it would have been at the height of the Cold War.
Building 134, Bentwaters Parks, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, IP12 2TW
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Clare Ancient House Museum is a lovely museum detailing the history of the historic Suffolk village of Clare and its inhabitants, through displays on local education, leather goods, clothing, transport, and brewing. There is a small entry fee.
26 High Street, Clare, Suffolk, England, CO10 8NY
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Heritage Highlight: A superb example of medieval plasterwork
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A fascinating museum in an unusual location! Felixstowe Museum is located in a building formerly used to deploy submarine mines in Felixstowe Harbour. The museum takes up 14 rooms of the submarine mining station on Landguard Point, which stands beside the historic fort used to protect the harbour entrance.
Viewpoint Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, IP11 3TW
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There has been a brewery on this site just off the town centre of Bury since at least the year 1700, and local brews including Old Speckled Hen, Abbot Ale, and Greene King IPA are still being produced here. The brewery museum stands immediately beside the busy modern brewery, across the street from the historic Theatre Royal.
Westgate Street Brewery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, IP33 1QT
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This disused airbase just outside Halesworth is home to a small museum that tells the storey of the base and the men who flew from it during World War II. The museum boasts a large collection of WWII memorabilia and tries to show visitors what it was like for the thousands of men who were stationed here.
Sparrowhawk Way, Upper Holton , Halesworth, Suffolk, England, IP19 8NH
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A popular museum covering the natural history, geology, and archaeology of Suffolk, housed in a listed Victorian building. The museum began in 1846 to educate the working classes about natural history, but over time it has grown to become one of the finest museums in East Anglia..
High Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP1 3QH
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Heritage Highlight: Victorian exhibits of natural history
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Laxfield's museum of local life is housed in a picturesque 1520 timber-framed guildhall opposite the medieval parish church. The museum has exhibits on social history, geology, daily life in the Victorian period, and the Mid Suffolk Light Railway, or 'Middy', as it was known locally.
The Street, Laxfield, Suffolk, England, IP13 8DU
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Heritage Highlight: Housed in a 16th-century timber-framed guildhall
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A late 14th-century hall house, one of the best-preserved medieval buildings in Lavenham, and now housing a museum displaying the Gayer-Anderson collection of pictures and artefacts. Behind the house is a recreated Tudor knot-garden and traditional walled garden.
Market Place, Lavenham, Suffolk, England, CO10 9QZ
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Heritage Highlight: One of the oldest houses in Lavenham
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A Grade I listed building, Moyses Hall was a merchant's house, built around 1180, which makes it one of the oldest domestic buildings in England still in use, and a rare surviving example of Norman domestic architecture. The oldest parts of the Hall are the south and west walls, which are original 12th-century construction, while most of the remainder is Tudor, with some Victorian restoration.
Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, IP33 1DX
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Heritage Highlight: The museum is housed in one of the oldest domestic buildings in England
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When the 250th anniversary of the Suffolk Regiment came along in 1935 the event was marked by the founding of a small museum, located in the officer's mess. The museum served as a part of orientation for new recruits during the Second World War. By 1968 the museum outgrew its original quarters and was moved to its current location in The Keep.
The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, IP33 3RN
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