Museums & Galleries · Hampshire
Westgate Museum
📍 SO23 8UH
Photo: Johan Bakker (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Unrivalled views over the city from the roof
- Collection of pre-imperial weights and measures
- Fine painted Tudor ceiling linked to a royal wedding
- Try on replica armour and Tudor costumes
- Prisoner graffiti carved into the chalk walls
Museum in Winchester, United Kingdom
Practical details
- Open
- 10:00–17:00, last entry 30 minutes before closing
- Booking
- Included in the Great Hall ticket
- Accessibility
- Housed in a medieval gateway reached by stairs to the chamber
- Dogs
- Guide dogs allowed
- Best for
- Families, with hands-on activities and trails
From the attraction's own website on 5 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Gift Shop
- ✓ Guided Tours
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