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Museums & Galleries in Cromer
Rainy day or culture fix, the museums and galleries around Cromer have you covered — think Cromer Museum, Henry Blogg Lifeboat Museum and Sheringham Museum at The Mo — many are free, and the distances below help you pick the closest.
Museums & Galleries
0.1 mi from Cromer
Henry Blogg Lifeboat Museum
Museum in Cromer, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
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3.8 mi from Cromer
Sheringham Museum at The Mo
Sheringham Museum at The Mo sits right on the seafront, telling the story of the town's fishing and lifeboat heritage across three floors packed with boats, fishermen's ganseys, fo...
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3.9 mi from Cromer
Peter Coke Shell Gallery
The Peter Coke Shell Gallery, housed in restored former fishermen's sheds at Westcliff, Sheringham, displays almost 200 colourful shell sculptures and arrangements by actor-turned-...
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5.4 mi from Cromer
Gunton Park Sawmill
Gunton Park Sawmill is a historic working sawmill in Alby with Thwaite, North Norfolk, where you can see a wooden-framed saw, a circular saw from Holmes of Norwich, and a small cor...
7.2 mi from Cromer
The Muckleburgh Military Collection
The Muckleburgh Military Collection sits on a former Second World War anti-aircraft training camp at Weybourne on the North Norfolk coast, and has welcomed visitors since 1988. You...
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9.5 mi from Cromer
Aylsham Heritage Centre
Aylsham Heritage Centre is a small museum in the Norfolk town of Aylsham, part of Broadland, run by a registered charity. Its current exhibition explores the town's historic Market...
10.9 mi from Cromer
The Shell Museum
The Shell Museum in Glandford is a small, historic museum housing the finest seashell collection in the UK, alongside fossils, birds' eggs, pottery and local archaeological finds,...
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13.9 mi from Cromer
Langham Dome
Langham Dome is a small wartime gunnery training museum on the edge of the former RAF Langham airfield in North Norfolk, built in 1942-43 to teach anti-aircraft gunners using proje...
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14.4 mi from Cromer
Museum of the Broads
The Museum of the Broads sits in a tranquil riverside setting in Stalham, North Norfolk, telling the story of the Broads from Roman times through peat digging to today's holidaymak...
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16 mi from Cromer
Barton House Railway
Barton House Railway is a miniature railway and heritage site in Wroxham, run by the Wroxham Railway Heritage Trust. You can ride two separate lines, the Midland Railway and the Ri...
16.6 mi from Cromer
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
This museum in Neatishead, North Norfolk, sits within the RAF's original hardened radar operations building, built in 1942, and is home to the country's only original Cold War Oper...
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17.3 mi from Cromer
City of Norwich Aviation Museum
The City of Norwich Aviation Museum is an aviation heritage museum at Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith in Broadland, Norfolk, with an outdoor space housing nearly 30 aircraft...
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18 mi from Cromer
Shirehall Museum and Abbey Grounds
Walsingham Abbey brings together the Shirehall Museum with the Abbey Grounds, a historic site centred on the spectacular ruins of the medieval Priory of Our Lady of Walsingham. The...
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18.1 mi from Cromer
St Seraphim's Icon and Railway Heritage Museum
Museum in Little Walsingham, Norfolk, United Kingdom
20.3 mi from Cromer
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History
This is the only surviving town gasworks in England and Wales, housed in Fakenham's former gasworks and preserved as a Scheduled Monument. You can see the original equipment used t...
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Lots of UK museums are free with a suggested donation, and paid ones often do annual passes for little more than a day ticket — worth it if you're local or returning.
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