100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
Diss
The Bloody Hundredth — honouring the American airmen who flew from Norfolk's skies
Museums in the East of England
176 museums
Aldeburgh Museum
Aldeburgh
Tudor Moot Hall on the beach — Britten, fishing, and five centuries of coastal life
Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life
Thetford
Discover the rich history of Thetford and the Breckland region in a remarkable Tudor merchant's house
Anglesey Abbey
Lode
Lord Fairhaven's 98-acre garden with England's finest winter garden and a working watermill
Ashwell Village Museum
Ashwell
Medieval voices, chalk springs, and nine hundred years of Hertfordshire village history
Baconsthorpe Castle
Baconsthorpe
15th-century moated semi-fortified manor — the Heydon family's ambitious statement of Norfolk gentry power
Bawdsey Radar Museum
Woodbridge
The birthplace of operational radar, in its original transmitter block
Beccles and District Museum
Beccles
River Waveney, William Clowes printing, and the town where Nelson was married
Bentwaters Cold War Museum
Woodbridge
Cold War fighter base history from the hardened bunker at former RAF Bentwaters
Berney Arms Windmill
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk's remotest windmill — seven storeys of marsh drainage history reachable only by foot, boat or train
Binham Priory
Binham
Home of England's earliest bar tracery window — a living parish church within a dramatic priory ruin
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum
Dereham
Dereham's town museum in the oldest house in the town, a thatched and pargeted survival of the 1500s
Blakeney Guildhall
Blakeney
A medieval merchant's undercroft in a once-busy North Norfolk harbour village
Burgh Castle
Great Yarmouth
Three walls of a Roman Saxon Shore fort standing to original height — 1,700 years of history at the edge of the Broads
Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum
Burnham-on-Crouch
The Cowes of the East Coast — yachts, oysters, and the River Crouch
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cambridge
The Cambridge Museum of Technology occupies a magnificently preserved Victorian sewage pumping station on the banks of the River Cam, offering visitors an…
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Cambridge
40 acres and 8,000 plant species, founded 1831 on the advice of Charles Darwin's tutor John Stevens Henslow
Castle Acre Castle
Castle Acre
England's finest Norman castle earthworks — de Warenne power in a perfectly preserved medieval village
Castle Acre Priory
Castle Acre
England's finest Cluniac priory — outstanding Norman west front and complete prior's lodgings in rural Norfolk
Celtic Harmony Camp
Hertford
A reconstructed Iron Age village and Palaeolithic cave in thirteen acres of Hertfordshire woodland
Centre for Computing History
Cambridge
Britain's most hands-on computing museum — switch on, type in, play the games of the digital age
Chatteris Museum
Chatteris
A volunteer-run local history museum tracing the story of fen drainage and community life in the Cambridgeshire Fenland town of Chatteris
Combined Military Services Museum
Maldon
Weapons, uniforms and the secret world of espionage and special forces
Dacorum Heritage
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead and Dacorum's local history, archive and heritage — from market town to New Town
De Havilland Aircraft Museum
London Colney
Britain's oldest aircraft museum — home to the prototype Comet and the secret Mosquito
Denny Abbey
Waterbeach
A uniquely complex site — four religious communities in two centuries, including Templars and the Countess of Pembroke's nuns
East Anglia Transport Museum
Lowestoft
Britain's only museum where trams, trolleybuses and a narrow-gauge railway all carry passengers
Elizabethan House Museum
Great Yarmouth
One of England's finest surviving Elizabethan merchant's town houses
Ely Cathedral
Ely
The Ship of the Fens — Norman and Gothic magnificence above the Cambridgeshire marshes
Essex Collection of Art from Latin America
Colchester
One of the UK's most significant collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art, housed within the University of Essex's Albert Sloman Library
Euston Hall
Euston
The historic Suffolk seat of the Dukes of Grafton, descended from Charles II, with a notable Restoration-era art collection
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History
Fakenham
One of Britain's most complete Victorian town gasworks, preserved in working order
Felixstowe Museum
Felixstowe
Martello towers, the last English invasion, and Britain's busiest container port
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam Museum stands as one of Britain's greatest art and antiquities museums, a treasure house of world-class collections housed in a magnificent…
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
Forncett St Mary
Victorian steam power brought back to life in the Norfolk countryside
Frinton & Walton Heritage Museum
Frinton-on-Sea
Two very different Essex resorts, their lifeboats and their railways, told by the town that made them
Fry Art Gallery
Saffron Walden
Bawden, Ravilious, and the Great Bardfield artists — the heart of mid-century British art in Essex
Frogmore Paper Mill
Hemel Hempstead
Where the world's first mechanised paper-making machine began the paper industry
Gainsborough's House
Sudbury
The world's greatest collection of Gainsborough in his Suffolk birthplace
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
Gressenhall
Norfolk's Largest Museum — Workhouse, Working Farm, and Rural Life Across 50 Acres
Grime's Graves
Thetford
England's only accessible Neolithic flint mine — descend 14 metres into a 4,500-year-old underground chamber
Hadleigh Castle
Hadleigh
Constable's immortalised ruin — Essex castle on the Thames estuary painted in grief and grandeur
Harlow Museum and Walled Gardens
Harlow
A Roman temple, seventeenth-century slipware and historic cycles, in Mark Hall's walled gardens
Harwich Maritime Museum
Harwich
A working 1818 lighthouse turned volunteer-run maritime museum, with panoramic harbour views
Haverhill Local History Museum
Haverhill
Eight thousand photographs and the story of a Suffolk market town remade twice over
HMS Ganges Museum
Shotley Gate
The story of the Royal Navy's boy-seaman training establishment at Shotley, 1905-1976
Ickworth House, Park and Gardens
Bury St Edmunds
The Earl-Bishop's Grand Vision — England's Most Eccentric Neoclassical Palace
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Cambridge
Imperial War Museum Duxford stands as Europe's premier aviation museum and Britain's largest, occupying a historic RAF fighter station with nearly a century of…
John Bunyan Museum and Library
Bedford
The life, imprisonment and worldwide readership of the author of The Pilgrim's Progress
Kentwell Hall
Long Melford
A moated Tudor manor house in Long Melford famed for large-scale historical re-creation events, distinct from the neighbouring National Trust Melford Hall
Kettle's Yard
Cambridge
Kettle's Yard represents a unique vision in the museum world—a place where art is experienced not in the formal context of gallery walls but within the…
Lanman Museum
Framlingham
Exploring the rich history of Framlingham and the surrounding Suffolk countryside, housed within the grounds of the medieval castle
Lavenham Guildhall
Lavenham
The finest timber-framed guildhall in England — heart of a medieval wool town unchanged for five centuries
Leiston Abbey
Leiston
Medieval Premonstratensian abbey where monastic ruins meet working farmstead in the Suffolk countryside
Longthorpe Tower
Peterborough
England's most complete medieval domestic wall paintings — discovered hidden beneath whitewash in 1945
Lowestoft Maritime Museum
Lowestoft
Lowestoft's fishing heritage and small-boat maritime history, told through ship models and volunteer expertise in Sparrow's Nest Gardens
Lowestoft Museum
Lowestoft
Britain's most easterly museum — maritime heritage, porcelain, and coastal history
Lowewood Museum
Hoddesdon
The story of the Lea Valley — from Georgian coaching town to glasshouse nursery heartland
March and District Museum
March
Fenland history, St Wendreda's angels, and the heritage of a Cambridgeshire market town
Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum
Martlesham Heath
The former watch office of Britain's premier aircraft-testing airfield, preserved by local volunteers
Mersea Island Museum
West Mersea
Island life, oyster heritage, and two thousand years of history on the Essex coast
Mid-Norfolk Railway
Dereham
East Anglia's longest heritage railway — steam through the heart of Norfolk
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum
Brockford
A volunteer-run museum preserving Brockford station and the memory of the historic Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, a marginal rural branch line
Mildenhall Museum
Mildenhall
Half a million years of Breckland and fen-edge history, from worked flint to the airbase
Military Intelligence Museum
Shefford
The hidden history of British military intelligence, told from within a still-active intelligence establishment
Minories Art Gallery
Colchester
Colchester's oldest art gallery, presenting a changing programme of contemporary art in a historic Georgian townhouse
Moyses Hall Museum
Bury St Edmunds
Eight Hundred Years of Bury St Edmunds in One Extraordinary Building
Muckleburgh Military Collection
Weybourne
England's largest private military collection on the Norfolk coast
Mundesley Maritime Museum
Mundesley
Lifeboats, lookouts, and a coastline in retreat on the North Norfolk Heritage Coast
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge
World Cultures & Human History - Cambridge's Global Collections
Museum of Cambridge
Cambridge
The Museum of Cambridge offers an intimate journey through the city's social history, focusing not on the famous university but on ordinary Cambridge residents…
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Cambridge
The World's Greatest Ancient Sculptures, Gathered in Plaster
Museum of East Anglian Life
Stowmarket
75 Acres of Rural Heritage and Living History in the Heart of Suffolk
Museum of the Broads
Stalham
The man-made waterland: reed-cutters, wherries, and the ecology of the Norfolk Broads
National Horseracing Museum
Newmarket
British racing's national museum, in Charles II's palace at Newmarket
Nene Valley Railway
Peterborough
Britain's Most Continental Heritage Railway — Steam Through the Nene Valley
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Bungay
The Mighty Eighth and RAF history in East Anglia's largest aviation museum
Norfolk Museum of Freemasonry
Norwich
Three centuries of Norfolk Freemasonry, explained by the people who practise it
North Elmham Chapel
North Elmham
Saxon cathedral remains and Norman chapel — the seat of the East Anglian diocese before Norwich
North Hertfordshire Museum
Hitchin
Natural history, archaeology, and the scent of Hitchin lavender — north Hertfordshire's story
North Weald Airfield Museum
North Weald
A key Battle of Britain fighter station, from Zeppelin defence to the jet age, told through one airfield's story
Octavia Hill's Birthplace House
Wisbech
Birthplace of the social reformer and National Trust co-founder
Orford Castle
Orford
Henry II's unique polygonal keep — one of medieval England's most architecturally distinctive royal castles, overlooking Orford Ness
Oxburgh Hall
Oxborough
A romantic moated medieval manor in Norfolk, home to the Bedingfields for over 500 years
Parham Airfield Museum (390th Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum)
Framlingham
Commemorating the USAAF 390th Bomb Group who flew from Suffolk's wartime skies
Peckover House and Garden
Wisbech
A graceful Georgian townhouse on one of England's finest Georgian streets, with a walled Victorian garden of extraordinary beauty
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
Peterborough
Peterborough's History from the Jurassic Seas to the Present Day
Potters Bar Museum
Potters Bar
A small local history museum tracing Potters Bar's transformation from rural Hertfordshire settlement to London commuter town
Prior's Hall Barn
Widdington
One of England's finest medieval aisled barns — a fourteenth-century masterpiece of crown-post timber construction in rural Essex
Radlett & District Museum
Radlett
A Roman road, a Victorian railway and Handley Page's aerodrome, in one small Hertfordshire village
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
Neatishead
Britain's complete radar heritage from Chain Home to the Cold War at an active RAF station
Rayleigh Town Museum
Rayleigh
Nine centuries of market town life beneath Rayleigh's Norman castle mount
Ramsey Rural Museum
Huntingdon
Seventy display areas of Fenland farming and rural trades in seventeenth-century barns
Royal Anglian Regiment Museum
Duxford
Three Centuries of East Anglian Infantry — From Blenheim to Afghanistan
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
Norwich
Norfolk's military history from 1685 to the Royal Anglian Regiment
Royston and District Museum
Royston
Home to the secrets of Royston Cave — Hertfordshire's most enigmatic underground monument
Saxtead Green Post Mill
Saxtead Green
England's finest surviving Suffolk post mill in working condition
Scott Polar Research Institute
Cambridge
The Scott Polar Research Institute houses the world's most comprehensive collection dedicated to polar exploration and research. Founded in 1920 as a memorial…
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Cambridge
Darwin's Museum - Fossils, Rocks & 4.5 Billion Years of Earth History
Sheringham Museum
Sheringham
The story of Sheringham's fishing families, Poppyland, and the north Norfolk shore
Somerleyton Hall
Somerleyton
A lavish Victorian Anglo-Italianate mansion near Lowestoft built for railway magnate Sir Samuel Morton Peto, famed for its celebrated yew maze
Southend Pier Museum
Southend-on-sea
The world's longest pier: two miles into the Thames Estuary and a century of seaside history
Southwold Lighthouse
Southwold
A fully operational 1890 lighthouse standing in the middle of a Suffolk seaside town, toured by Adnams
St Neots Museum
St Neots
The story of St Neots and the Great Ouse valley, in the town's old police station
Suffolk Regiment Museum
Bury-st-edmunds
The story of Suffolk's regiment from 1685 to the Royal Anglian
Sutton Hoo
Woodbridge
Where East Anglia's kings were buried — Britain's greatest Anglo-Saxon archaeological treasure
The Cater Museum
Billericay
Billericay's town museum, from the Peasants' Revolt at Norsey Wood to the Mayflower and beyond
The Charles Burrell Museum
Thetford
Celebrating the golden age of steam — Burrell engines, showmen's road locomotives, and fairground organs
The Farmland Museum
Waterbeach
Cambridgeshire farming and village life, on the medieval abbey site at Waterbeach
The Gibberd Gallery
Harlow
The indoor gallery of Harlow Sculpture Town, and home of the Gibberd watercolour collection
The Munnings Art Museum
Dedham
Sir Alfred Munnings's Dedham home and studios, holding the only permanent retrospective of his work
The Panacea Museum
Bedford
The most extraordinary domestic heritage site in England — a preserved world of Victorian faith and communal life
The Red House, Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears's Aldeburgh home, with the composition studio, library and archive
The Women's Art Collection
Cambridge
Europe's largest collection of art by women, lived with daily across a Cambridge college
Thetford Priory
Thetford
Cluniac priory founded 1103 — mausoleum of the Dukes of Norfolk, set in Thetford parkland
Thorney Heritage Museum
Thorney
How drainage made a fenland village: Thorney Abbey, the Bedford Level and the settlers who worked it
Thurrock Museum
Grays
Thames Estuary history from Tilbury Fort to the chalk and cement industries of Grays
Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Great Yarmouth
The herring capital of the world — Great Yarmouth's extraordinary story
True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum
King's Lynn
Two surviving fishermen's cottages tell the story of King's Lynn's lost fishing community
University Museum of Zoology
Cambridge
3 Million Specimens - Biodiversity from Microscopic to Magnificent
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Museum
Bury St Edmunds
Living Archaeology — Where the Dark Ages Come to Life
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Cambridge
Historic Scientific Instruments - Tools That Revealed Nature's Secrets
Wimpole Hall
Arrington
Cambridgeshire's grandest country house set within 3,000 acres of historic Capability Brown parkland
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
Wisbech
The oldest purpose-built museum in England still in its original use, with one of the most extraordinary collections in the country — including the original manuscript of Great Expectations
Woburn Heritage Centre
Woburn
A Bedfordshire town's own history, kept in its redundant medieval church
Woodbridge Museum
Woodbridge
Thomas Seckford's Elizabethan Shire Hall, the Deben Tide Mill, and the shadow of Sutton Hoo
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum
Woodbridge
One of the world's last working tide mills, milling to the moon on the Deben
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