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Museums in Suffolk

This list of museums in Suffolk, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, 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.

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The ListEdit

Name	Image	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
Aldeburgh Museum		Aldeburgh	Suffolk Coastal	Local	website, located in the 16th century moot hall, local history, culture, trades, industry
Bardwell Windmill		Bardwell	St Edmundsbury	Mill	Early 19th century tower windmill
Bawdsey Manor		Bawdsey	Suffolk Coastal	Military	Features the Transmitter Block and "Magic Ear" exhibit about RAF Bawdsey and the radar activities during World War II and the Cold War
Beckles & District Museum		Beccles	Waveney	Local	website, local history, culture
Bentwaters Cold War Museum		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Military	History of RAF Bentwaters in World War II and the Cold War
Brandon Heritage Centre		Brandon	Forest Heath	Local	information, local history, culture
Bungay Museum		Bungay	Waveney	Local	website, local history, culture
Buttrum's Mill		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Mill	Mid 19th century tower windmill
Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter		Ipswich	Ipswich	History	World War II underground air raid shelter with period supplies and artifacts
Dunwich Museum		[Dunwich	Suffolk Coastal	Local	website, local history, culture, story of its decline due to coastal erosion
East Anglia Transport Museum		Carlton Colville	Waveney	Transportation	Historic public transport vehicles including buses, trams and trolleybuses, a narrow gauge railway
Easton Farm Park		Easton	Suffolk Coastal	Farm	website
Greene King Visitor Centre		Bury St Edmunds	St Edmundsbury	Food	History, artifacts and shop of the brewery
Halesworth Museum		Halesworth	Waveney	Local	website, local history
Herringfleet Windmill		Herringfleet	Waveney	Mill	Early 19th century smock windmill
HMS Ganges Museum		Bures	Babergh	Maritime	website, history and artifacts from the HMS Ganges (shore establishment), a training ship
Ickworth House, Park & Garden		Bury St Edmunds	St Edmundsbury	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, country house with collections of paintings, portraits, Regency furniture, Huguenot silver and more, gardens and park
Ipswich Maritime Trust Window Museum		Ipswich	Ipswich	Maritime	website, website, 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 locally manufactured
Lanman Museum		Framlingham	Suffolk Coastal	Local	information, information, located at Framlingham Castle, local history, history of the castle, agriculture, social history
Lavenham Guildhall		Lavenham	Babergh	History	website, 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	information
Long Shop Museum		Leiston	Suffolk Coastal	Industry	History of Richard Garrett & Sons a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses.
Lowestoft Maritime Museum		Lowestoft	Waveney	Maritime	website, website, maritime artifacts, ship models, marine art, fishing and fishing industry, activities with the Royal Navy in WW II, shipwrights and coopers tools
Lowestoft Museum		Lowestoft	Waveney	Local	website, local history, 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain, fossils, maritime heritage, industries, culture, social history
Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Aviation	website, history of RAF Martlesham Heath
Mechanical Music Museum at Cotton		Cotton	Mid Suffolk	Music	website, collection of automatic musical instruments and cinema memorabilia, information
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum		Wetheringsett	Mid Suffolk	Railway	Heritage railway and museum with locomotives, artifacts
Mincarlo		Lowestoft	Waveney	Maritime	Sidewinder fishing trawler museum ship
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
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum		Flixton	Waveney	Aviation	website, historic aircraft, history of RAF Bungay and regimental collections of the units that served there, area aviation history, aviation history and artifacts from World War II
Orford Castle		Orford	Suffolk Coastal	Historic house	Operated by English Heritage, medieval castle keep, houses the Orford Museum's' exhibits of local archaeological artifacts, the castle's history and borough regalia
Pakenham Windmill		Pakenham	St Edmundsbury	Mill	Mid 19th century tower windmill
Parham Airfield Museum		Framlingham	Suffolk Coastal	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	St Edmundsbury	Military	website, restored World War two control tower and Quonset hut with exhibits and memorabilia of RAF Bury St Edmunds - Hold regular vintage events on site
Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum		Lowestoft	Waveney	Maritime	website, website, history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service and their local activities in World War II
Saxtead Green Post Windmill		Framlingham	Suffolk Coastal	Mill	Operated by English Heritage, 19th century post windmill
Southwold Lighthouse		Southwold	Waveney	Maritime	Lighthouse museum
Southwold Museum		Southwold	Waveney	Local	website, local history, natural history, geology, industries, railway, maritime heritage, archaeology
Suffolk Horse Museum		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Equestrian	website, history of the Suffolk Punch breed of draught horse
Suffolk Regiment Museum		Bury St Edmunds	St Edmundsbury	Military	Regimental uniforms, weapons, artifacts and memorabilia
Thelnetham Windmill		Thelnetham	St Edmundsbury	Mill	Early 19th century tower windmill
Upthorpe Mill		Stanton	St Edmundsbury	Mill	Mid 18 th century post windmill
Woodbridge Museum		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Local	information, local history, archaeology, trade, roads, housing, religion and education
Woodbridge Tide Mill		Woodbridge	Suffolk Coastal	Mill	Operational tide mill
Woolpit Museum		Woolpit	Mid Suffolk	Local	website, local history, brickmaking, located in a 17th century cottage

Defunct museumsEdit

• William Clowes Printing Museum, Beccles^[1]

See alsoEdit

• Category:Visitor attractions in Suffolk

ReferencesEdit

• Explore Suffolk's Museums

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