Attraction45 to 90 minutes

Southwold Museum

About

A tiny cottage museum on Victoria Street, opposite Bartholomew Green and facing the church, run by the Southwold Museum and Historical Society and accredited by Arts Council England. For a building this small it covers an unreasonable amount: fossils, the Viking period, the Battle of Sole Bay, the town's architecture and industries, the rise and fall of the Southwold Railway, the lighthouse, the shifting coastline, and the change from fishing town to seaside resort. It won Suffolk Museum of the Year in 2016. Open daily 2pm to 4pm from 1 April to the end of October. Admission is free, but the society states that maintaining the building costs at least five pounds per visitor, and there are donation boxes and a card reader throughout. Wheelchair access is available.

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Highlights

✓Arts Council accredited, Suffolk Museum of the Year 2016
✓The Battle of Sole Bay and the Southwold Railway
✓Free admission, donations invited
✓Wheelchair accessible

Tips

→Open daily 2pm to 4pm, 1 April to the end of October only; it is shut for the winter.
→Free entry, but the society asks for a donation of around five pounds a head.
→Ten minutes on foot from either the pier car park or the Godyll Road car park.
→Pair it with the Sailors' Reading Room and the Alfred Corry lifeboat museum for a wet afternoon.