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Museums & Galleries in Southwold
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Southwold — think Sailors' Reading Room, Southwold Museum and Southwold Railway Trust — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
0.1 mi from Southwold
Sailors' Reading Room
The Sailors' Reading Room is a museum in Southwold, East Suffolk, with a small range of merchandise connected to its history. You can find items such as a book on the Reading Room'...
0.1 mi from Southwold
Southwold Museum
Southwold Museum is a small cottage museum in the heart of the town, run by the Southwold Museum & Historical Society and dedicated to the local and natural history of the area. In...
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0.5 mi from Southwold
Southwold Railway Trust
Southwold Railway Trust tells the story of a historic 3-foot narrow gauge railway that once linked Halesworth to Southwold through the Blyth valley, closing in 1929. At the Southwo...
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0.9 mi from Southwold
Alfred Cory Museum
The Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum in Southwold tells the story of the 1893 Southwold No.1 lifeboat, launched 41 times and credited with saving 47 lives during 25 years of service. H...
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4 mi from Southwold
Dunwich Museum
Dunwich Museum forms part of the Dunwich Community Heritage Centre, run by trustees, staff and volunteers alongside donations and memberships. Inside, you can explore hundreds of d...
6.6 mi from Southwold
Holton Windmill
Holton Windmill is a Grade II listed post mill at Holton, Suffolk, England which has been preserved as a landmark. — Wikipedia
9.4 mi from Southwold
Long Shop Museum
The Long Shop Museum tells 200 years of industrial and social history and is run as an independent museum by a registered charitable trust, with money from tickets, merchandise and...
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10.2 mi from Southwold
Beccles and District Museum
Housed in the flint-fronted, Grade 1 listed 16th century Leman House in Ballygate, Beccles and District Museum brings together local history, archaeology and family-history archive...
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10.2 mi from Southwold
Lowestoft Museum
Lowestoft Museum is housed in Broad House, a grade II listed building dating from 1685, set within Nicholas Everitt Park in Oulton Broad. Run by local volunteers and donation funde...
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10.6 mi from Southwold
Thorpeness & Aldringham Heritage Centre
11.6 mi from Southwold
Lowestoft Maritime Museum
Lowestoft Maritime Museum sits in Sparrow's Nest Gardens close to the North Sea, telling the story of the town's maritime heritage through collections such as handmade fishing boat...
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13.6 mi from Southwold
Bungay Museum
Bungay Museum is a small, independent heritage centre housed above the Town Council Offices on Broad Street, exploring the archaeology, geology and history of Bungay and the surrou...
14 mi from Southwold
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
This volunteer-run aviation museum in Flixton tells the story of wartime airfields and East Anglian flying history through a large collection of aircraft, cockpits and tens of thou...
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17.1 mi from Southwold
Bentwaters Cold War Museum
This museum occupies a former USAF hardened command post on the old Bentwaters airfield, with a restored war operations room, battle cabin, and original decontamination showers and...
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17.3 mi from Southwold
Orford Museum
Orford Museum is a small, volunteer-led museum displaying local history within Orford Castle, on the first floor, where six cases hold the Orford Borough Regalia alongside archaeol...
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