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Halesworth and District Museum

The Railway Station, Station Road Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BZ

  • Visitor Information
    • Information for Visitors
    • Education and Halesworth Museum
    • Inside the Museum
    • Museum Sales
    • Community Cabinets
    • News & Stop Press
    • Contact Information
    • E-mail us
  • 1970’s Project
    • Robbie Page’s Photographs
    • 1970s Project Diary of Events
    • 1970’s Timeline
      • 1970
      • 1971
      • 1972
      • 1973
      • 1974
      • 1975
      • 1976
      • 1977
      • 1978
      • 1979
  • Halesworth Archeology
    • The Wissett Hoards
      • Wissett Hoards, Detailed Description
    • The Bramfield Hoard
  • Local History
    • The ‘MALT’ Research Team
    • Halesworth and District Time Line
    • Halesworth – Local History
      • Halesworth Local Recorder Reports
        • Local Recorder Report 2015
      • Policing in Halesworth
      • Plant Hunters of Halesworth and Working from Home
      • Halesworth’s Unique Movable Platform
      • Gladys Rogers
      • Scouting in Halesworth
      • Halesworth Area History Notes Names Index
      • The Ipswich Building Society in Halesworth
      • Ives Shoe Shop
      • Salvation Army, Halesworth
      • Dwile Flonking in Halesworth
    • Rumburgh – Local History
      • Rumburgh Home Guard of World War 2
    • Wissett – Local History
      • Wissett War Dead of the First World War
      • Wissett Home Guard of World War 2
  • Press Releases
    • Press Releases for 2011
  • Helping the Museum
  • Museum Backroom
    • Volunteers Gallery
    • The Greyhound, St Margaret’s Ilketshall
    • The Angel Hotel, Halesworth
    • Angel Hotel Tap
  • Other Exhibitions
    • Picture Display – Spring 2014
    • Future Exhibitions and Activities
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions 2.
  • Town Model and ‘Virtual Tudor Tour’ of Halesworth
  • Virtual Museum
  • Links
Halesworth and District Museum

Rumburgh – Local History

Rumburgh is a village four miles west of Halesworth.

Rumburgh Home Guard of World War 2

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Opening Times

The Museum will be closed until February as we are having a major upgrade to our security and decoration. For more information contact us.

Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 am to 12.30 pm.
Wednesday afternoon 2 pm to 4 pm

Group visits are welcomed but must be pre-arranged with the Curator. please email us with your requirements.

The Museum will be shut over the Christmas and New Year breaks. We shut about two weeks before Christmas and open about two weeks after New Years Day.

However, if you want to visit the Museum during this time, do email and, as long as we have a volunteer available, you will be able to visit us.

There is easy access for the disabled.

Diary of Events

Museum Talks: 2017 Series

20 April
Roy Tricker: ‘Suffolk Churches’
18 May
Rachel Duffield: ‘Historical Characterisation:
Tudor Times’
21 September
Vic Gray: ‘Malt: Halesworth’s Road to Fame and Fortune’
12 October
Dave Wollweber: The Argenteins

Talks start at 7:30pm in the United Reformed Church, Quay Street, Halesworth IP19 8EP.
Admission: £3·00; Friends of the Museum: £1·50.

Museum Exhibitions – 2017 season

February to October – Eduction in and around Halesworth from aboout 1800 to 1960.

October onwards – The Argenteins.

  • Visitor Information
    • Information for Visitors
    • Education and Halesworth Museum
    • Inside the Museum
    • Museum Sales
    • Community Cabinets
    • News & Stop Press
    • Contact Information
    • E-mail us
  • 1970’s Project
    • Robbie Page’s Photographs
    • 1970s Project Diary of Events
    • 1970’s Timeline
      • 1970
      • 1971
      • 1972
      • 1973
      • 1974
      • 1975
      • 1976
      • 1977
      • 1978
      • 1979
  • Halesworth Archeology
    • The Wissett Hoards
      • Wissett Hoards, Detailed Description
    • The Bramfield Hoard
  • Local History
    • The ‘MALT’ Research Team
    • Halesworth and District Time Line
    • Halesworth – Local History
      • Halesworth Local Recorder Reports
        • Local Recorder Report 2015
      • Policing in Halesworth
      • Plant Hunters of Halesworth and Working from Home
      • Halesworth’s Unique Movable Platform
      • Gladys Rogers
      • Scouting in Halesworth
      • Halesworth Area History Notes Names Index
      • The Ipswich Building Society in Halesworth
      • Ives Shoe Shop
      • Salvation Army, Halesworth
      • Dwile Flonking in Halesworth
    • Rumburgh – Local History
      • Rumburgh Home Guard of World War 2
    • Wissett – Local History
      • Wissett War Dead of the First World War
      • Wissett Home Guard of World War 2
  • Press Releases
    • Press Releases for 2011
  • Helping the Museum
  • Museum Backroom
    • Volunteers Gallery
    • The Greyhound, St Margaret’s Ilketshall
    • The Angel Hotel, Halesworth
    • Angel Hotel Tap
  • Other Exhibitions
    • Picture Display – Spring 2014
    • Future Exhibitions and Activities
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions 2.
  • Town Model and ‘Virtual Tudor Tour’ of Halesworth
  • Virtual Museum
  • Links
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