# 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.
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## Museums

| Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
| Aldeburgh Museum | Aldeburgh | East Suffolk | Local | website, located in the 16th century moot hall, local history, culture, trades, industry |
| Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum | Southwold | East Suffolk | Maritime | website, 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 | website, shop with museum about amber, and amber artefacts, carvings, jewellery and objets d'art |
| The Apex | Bury St Edmunds | West Suffolk | Art | website, 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 | website, 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 | information, local history, culture |
| Bungay Museum | Bungay | East Suffolk | Local | website, 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 Air Raid Shelter | Ipswich | Ipswich | History | World War II underground air raid shelter with period supplies and artefacts |
| Dunwich Museum | Dunwich | East Suffolk | Local | website, 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 | website |
| 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 | website, local history, located in the Halesworth railway station |
| Haverhill Local History Centre | Haverhill | West Suffolk | Local | website, 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 | website, history and artefacts from the training ships associated with the shore establishment HMS Ganges |
| 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 | website |
| Ipswich Maritime Trust Window Museum | Ipswich | Ipswich | Maritime | 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 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 | information |
| Little Hall Lavenham | Lavenham | Babergh | Historic house | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, history of RAF Martlesham Heath |
| Mechanical Music Museum at Cotton | Cotton | Mid Suffolk | Music | website, 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 | website, local history, natural wildlife, the history of RAF Mildenhall, replicas of the Mildenhall Treasure, archaeology |
| Mincarlo | Lowestoft | East Suffolk | Maritime | Sidewinder fishing trawler museum ship |
| Moyse's Hall Museum | Bury St Edmunds | West Suffolk | Multiple | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service and their local activities in World War II |
| Saxmundham Museum | Saxmundham | East Suffolk | Local | information, 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 | website, 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 | website, local history, natural history, geology, industries, railway, maritime heritage, archaeology |
| Southwold Sailors' Reading Room | Southwold | East Suffolk | Maritime | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, marine archaeology, items recovered from the ocean, information |
| 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 | information, 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 | website, 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