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Museums & Galleries in Hunstanton
Rainy day or culture fix, the museums and galleries around Hunstanton have you covered — think Hunstanton Heritage Centre, Holkham Stories Experience and True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum — many are free, and the distances below help you pick the closest.
Museums & Galleries
13.4 mi from Hunstanton
The Lynn Museum
Local museum in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK
13.5 mi from Hunstanton
Stories of Lynn
Stories of Lynn brings the history of King's Lynn to life, combining an on-site exhibition with a free companion app available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app acts...
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16 mi from Hunstanton
Church Farm
The Village Church Farm, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. — Wikipedia
16.1 mi from Hunstanton
St Seraphim's Icon and Railway Heritage Museum
Museum in Little Walsingham, Norfolk, United Kingdom
16.2 mi from Hunstanton
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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16.7 mi from Hunstanton
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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19.8 mi from Hunstanton
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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21.6 mi from Hunstanton
Boston Guildhall
Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire. Built in 1390 and altered through the centuries, in the early 21st century it was restored and now serves a... — Wikipedia
21.8 mi from Hunstanton
Swaffham Heritage
Swaffham Heritage is a small, independent museum run by volunteers, telling the social history of Swaffham and the surrounding villages from the Stone Age to the present day. You c...
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22.8 mi from Hunstanton
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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23.5 mi from Hunstanton
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
Wisbech & Fenland Museum is an independent, charity-run museum in Wisbech, preserved as a fine example of a Victorian museum, complete with the taxonomy systems and learning styles...
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23.6 mi from Hunstanton
Peckover House & Gardens
Peckover House & Garden is a National Trust property located in North Brink, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. — Wikipedia
23.7 mi from Hunstanton
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
Museum in Gressenhall, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK
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Make a day of it
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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