List of museums in Suffolk

This list of museums in Suffolk, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

Museums Name Image Town/City Region Type Summary Aldeburgh Museum Aldeburgh East Suffolk Local located in the 16th century moot hall, local history, culture, trades, industry Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Southwold East Suffolk Maritime home to the former Southwold lifeboat "Alfred Corry", exhibits and artefacts about lifesaving and area maritime history Amber Shop and Museum Southwold East Suffolk Natural history shop with museum about amber, and amber artefacts, carvings, jewellery and objets d'art The Apex Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Art performing arts centre, includes Apex Art Gallery for contemporary art exhibitions Bardwell Windmill Bardwell West Suffolk Mill Early 19th-century tower windmill Bawdsey Manor Bawdsey East Suffolk Military Features the Transmitter Block and "Magic Ear" exhibit about RAF Bawdsey and the radar activities during World War II and the Cold War Beccles & District Museum Beccles East Suffolk Local local history, culture Bentwaters Cold War Museum Woodbridge East Suffolk Military History of RAF Bentwaters in World War II and the Cold War Brandon Heritage Centre Brandon West Suffolk Local local history, culture Bungay Museum Bungay East Suffolk Local local history, culture Buttrum's Mill Woodbridge East Suffolk Mill Mid-19th-century tower windmill Christchurch Mansion Ipswich Ipswich Multiple Stately home with fine art, decorative arts in period room displays, toys and dolls Clare Ancient House Museum Clare West Suffolk Local 14th-15th-century house with exhibits of local history and archaeology Clifford Road Tunnels Ipswich Ipswich History World War II underground air raid shelter with period supplies and artefacts Dunwich Museum Dunwich East Suffolk Local local history, culture, story of its decline due to coastal erosion East Anglia Transport Museum Carlton Colville East Suffolk Transportation Historic public transport vehicles including buses, trams and trolleybuses, a narrow gauge railway Easton Farm Park Easton East Suffolk Farm Euston Hall Euston West Suffolk Historic house 17th century manor, collection of fine art, park by William Kent and Capability Brown Felixstowe Museum Felixstowe East Suffolk Multiple Area military and social history, located in Landguard Fort Flatford: Bridge Cottage Flatford Babergh Historic house Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century thatched cottage with exhibits about John Constable and his paintings of the area Framlingham Castle Framlingham East Suffolk Historic house Operated by English Heritage, 12th-century fortress remains, exhibits about its history Gainsborough's House Sudbury Babergh Art Birthplace of artist Thomas Gainsborough, collection of his paintings, drawings and prints, temporary art exhibitions Greene King Visitor Centre Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Food History, artefacts and shop of the brewery Halesworth Museum Halesworth East Suffolk Local local history, located in the Halesworth railway station Haverhill Local History Centre Haverhill West Suffolk Local local history, located in the Haverhill Arts Centre Herringfleet Windmill Herringfleet East Suffolk Mill Early 19th century smock windmill HMS Ganges Museum Bures Babergh Maritime history and artefacts from the training ships associated with the shore establishment Ickworth House, Park & Garden Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Historic house Operated by the National Trust, country house with collections of paintings, portraits, Regency furniture, Huguenot silver and more, gardens and park Ipswich Art School Gallery Ipswich Ipswich Art Ipswich Maritime Trust Window Museum Ipswich Ipswich Maritime window exhibits of town's maritime heritage Ipswich Museum Ipswich Ipswich Multiple Archaeology, Roman Britain and Ancient Egypt, local history, natural history, ethnography Ipswich Transport Museum Ipswich Ipswich Transportation Area transportation history, includes buses, trams, commercial vehicles, fire apparatus, mobile cranes, bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, prams and wheelchairs, most manufactured in the area Kentwell Hall Long Melford Babergh Historic house Elizabethan stately home and outbuildings with a rare breeds farm and gardens Landguard Fort Felixstowe East Suffolk Military Historic fort in use since the 16th century until the 1950s, also includes the Felixstowe Museum Lanman Museum Framlingham East Suffolk Local https://lanmanmuseum.uk/ website, located at Framlingham Castle, local history, history of the castle, agriculture, social history Lavenham Guildhall Lavenham Babergh History Operated by the National Trust, medieval guild hall with exhibits on the local cloth industry, farming and agriculture Laxfield & District Museum Laxfield Mid Suffolk Military Little Hall Lavenham Lavenham Babergh Historic house 14th century Tudor house Long Shop Museum Leiston East Suffolk Industry History of Richard Garrett & Sons a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses. Lowestoft Maritime Museum Lowestoft East Suffolk Maritime maritime artefacts, ship models, marine art, fishing and fishing industry, activities with the Royal Navy in WW II, shipwrights and coopers tools Lowestoft Museum Lowestoft East Suffolk Local local history, 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain, fossils, maritime heritage, industries, culture, social history Lowestoft War Memorial Museum Lowestoft East Suffolk Military Area military history during World War I and World War II Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum Woodbridge East Suffolk Aviation history of RAF Martlesham Heath Mechanical Music Museum at Cotton Cotton Mid Suffolk Music collection of automatic musical instruments and cinema memorabilia Melford Hall Long Melford Babergh Historic house Operated by the National Trust, stately home reflecting two centuries of family life, ties to Beatrix Potter Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum Wetheringsett Mid Suffolk Railway Heritage railway and museum with locomotives, artefacts Mildenhall Museum Mildenhall West Suffolk Local local history, natural wildlife, the history of RAF Mildenhall, replicas of the Mildenhall Treasure, archaeology Lowestoft East Suffolk Maritime Sidewinder fishing trawler museum ship Moyse's Hall Museum Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Multiple local history, culture, clocks and watches, costumes and textiles, fine and decorative arts, Suffolk Regiment gallery Museum of East Anglian Life Stowmarket Mid Suffolk Open air Agricultural history of East Anglia, includes Eastbridge Windpump, agriculture machinery, scenes from the 1950s including shops scenes, kitchens, living rooms and a Victorian schoolroom, blacksmith forge, trades, watermill, chapel, carpentry and engineering workshops, steam engines Museum of Knots and Sailors' Ropework Ipswich Ipswich Maritime open by appointment, art and skill of ropeworking National Horseracing Museum Newmarket West Suffolk Sports History of horse racing in Britain, houses the British Horseracing Hall of Fame and the Vestey Gallery of British Sporting Art Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Flixton East Suffolk Aviation Historic aircraft, history of RAF Bungay and regimental collections of the units that served there, area aviation history, aviation history and artefacts from World War II Orford Castle Orford East Suffolk Historic house Operated by English Heritage, medieval castle keep, houses the Orford Museum's' exhibits of local archaeological artefacts, the castle's history and borough regalia Pakenham Windmill Pakenham West Suffolk Mill Mid-19th-century tower windmill Parham Airfield Museum Framlingham East Suffolk Military History of the airfield's activities in World War II, in particular the 390th Bombardment Group and the British Resistance Organisation Rougham Control Tower Museum Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Military restored World War II control tower and Quonset hut with exhibits and memorabilia of RAF Bury St Edmunds Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum Lowestoft East Suffolk Maritime history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service and their local activities in World War II Saxmundham Museum Saxmundham East Suffolk Local local history, replica of local shops, jail cell, culture exhibits Saxtead Green Post Windmill Framlingham East Suffolk Mill Operated by English Heritage, 19th century post windmill Smith's Row Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Art , contemporary art gallery Somerleyton Hall Somerleyton East Suffolk Historic house Tudor-Jacobean stately home, gardens Southwold Lighthouse Southwold East Suffolk Maritime Lighthouse museum Southwold Museum Southwold East Suffolk Local local history, natural history, geology, industries, railway, maritime heritage, archaeology Southwold Sailors' Reading Room Southwold East Suffolk Maritime marine art, photos, models and other memorabilia of the local fishermen and sailors St Edmundsbury Cathedral Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Multiple Historic cathedral, includes the Edmund Gallery for art exhibits, and the Cathedral Treasures exhibits of religious regalia and artefacts Sudbury Heritage Centre & Museum Sudbury Babergh Local local history Suffolk Regiment Museum Bury St Edmunds West Suffolk Military Regimental uniforms, weapons, artefacts and memorabilia Suffolk Underwater Studies Museum Orford East Suffolk Maritime marine archaeology, items recovered from the ocean, Sutton Hoo Woodbridge East Suffolk Archaeology Operated by the National Trust, artefacts from the ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king and his most treasured possessions Thelnetham Windmill Thelnetham West Suffolk Mill Early 19th-century tower windmill Upthorpe Mill Stanton West Suffolk Mill Mid 18th century post windmill West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village West Stow West Suffolk Open air Recreated Anglo-Saxon village, archaeological artefacts found at the site, exhibits of Anglo-Saxon life and culture Woodbridge Museum Woodbridge East Suffolk Local local history, archaeology, trade, roads, housing, religion and education Woodbridge Tide Mill Woodbridge East Suffolk Mill Operational tide mill Woolpit Museum Woolpit Mid Suffolk Local local history, brickmaking, located in a 17th-century cottage

Defunct museums Sue Ryder Foundation Museum, Cavendish, life and works of philanthropist Sue Ryder Suffolk Heavy Horse Museum, Woodbridge, history of the Suffolk Punch breed of draught horse William Clowes Printing Museum, Beccles

See also :Category:Tourist attractions in Suffolk

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