Suffolk MuseumsThe Ancient House Collections in the Heritage Centre offer an unique view of the town's colourful history from Neolithic times to the present day. With the help of hands-on exhibits, it tells the story of the flint, fur and forestry industries which have been the lifeblood of the area. George Street, Brandon. IP27 0BX Tel: 01842 814955 A small exhibition of items about John Constable, his life and work housed at Bridge Cottage, Flatford and owned by the National Trust. Guided walks available from here. Flatford, East Bergholt, CO7 6UL Tel: 01206 298260 Email Local History Museum with maps, documents, photographs Viewpoint Road. Felixstowe IP11 7JG Tel: 01394 672284 Email displays the Town’s rich Anglo-Saxon collections found over the past 100 years in an exciting gallery about the Anglo-Saxons in Ipswich High Street, Ipswich IP1 3QH Tel: 01473 433550 Email Former trolleybus depot house the largest collection in the country of transport exhibits from just one area. All were made or used around Ipswich and range from prams and cycles to horse-drawn carriages, gleaming fire engines and buses Cobham Road, Ipswich IP3 9JD Tel: 01473 715666 Email A 16th century building houses collections of geology, natural history, and farm and domestic and tools. There are Victorian kitchen and village shop displays and a costume room The Guildhall, Laxfield, Woodbridge, IP13 8DU Tel: 01986 798460 The Long Shop Steam MuseumSet in original buildings of the Richard Garrett Engineering Works including the Grade II* listed Long Shop - first purpose built production line building for portable steam engines. Buildings house exhibits and artefacts covering 200 years of local, social and industrial history. Main Street, Leiston IP16 4ES Tel: 01728 832189 Email Mechanical Music and Bygones Museum A large selection of mechanical musical items. Small musicboxes, polyphons and organettes, larger street pianos andplayer organs, large fair organs, dance band and cafeorgans plus a number of unusual items and the Wurlitzertheatre pipe organ Blacksmith's Road, Cotton Stowmarket IP14 4QN Tel: 01449 613876 Mid-Suffolk Light Railway MuseumSuffolk's only railway museum recreates 'the Middy' as it was 90 years ago. Brockford Station, Wetheringsett, Stowmarket IP14 5PW Tel: 01473 622728 Email A local museum that depicts the history of Mildenhall and the neighbouring villages. Displays include Fenland and natural history, crafts, dairy and agriculture, the history of RAF Mildenhall and the 1934 Mildenhall-Melbourne Air Race, local archaeology and a gallery about the discovery of the late 3rd century Mildenhall Treasure with accurate replicas moulded from the Roman originals. 6 King Street, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 7EX Tel: 01638 716970 Email Housed in the oldest domestic building open to the public in East Anglia and dates back over 800 years. A museum for 100 years, the Museum contains local history collections and include William Corder´s scalp from Murder in the Red Barn relics as well as many other curios from the local area. The museum re-opened in 2002 with new and improved displays and facilities including a new gallery featuring highlights from the Suffolk Regimental collections. Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1DX Tel: 01284 706183 Large open air museum with important collections of regional, social, industrial and agricultural history. Crowe Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1DL Tel 01449 612229 Email You can try on racing silks and test your skill on a mechanical horse. The British Sporting Art Trust Galleries include loans from the Tate Gallery featuring some of the best in horse racing art. There are special events throughout the year. High Street, Newmarket CB8 8JL Tel: 01638 667333 In 1939 one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain was made at Sutton
Hoo. Beneath a grass-covered mound was revealed an immense timber ship with a central burial chamber. It is
thought to be the last resting-place of Raedwald, King of East Anglia, who died around 625 AD. Within the
chamber archaeologists found an astonishingly rich assemblage of grave goods, including exquisite gold and
garnet jewellery made in a local workshop, silverware from the Mediterranean world and items of warrior
kingship. The Suffolk Punch Heavy Horse Museum An award winning museum devoted to the Suffolk Horse breed (also known as the Suffolk Punch) of heavy working horse, the oldest such breed in the world and probably the most perfect working animal ever bred by man Market Hill, Woodbridge IP12 4LU Tel: 01394 380643 Email Buxhall Museum Rural and household bygones, plus local interest photographs. Brook Farm, Buxhall, Stowmarket Tel: 01449 736363 Sue Ryder Foundation Museum Depicts the remarkable story of Sue Ryder and how she came to establish the Sue Ryder Foundation. Includes original exhibits from Nazi concentration camps, also beautiful embroidery and handicrafts made by patients in Sue Ryder Homes PO Box 5736, Cavendish, Sudbury, CO10 8RN Tel: 01787 282591 | ||
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