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Museum and Museum/Castle Grounds closed on Friday 20th June 1-7pm

June 20, 2025

The Museum, its car park and the Museum/Castle Grounds will be…

Volunteer Thank You Tea Party – National Volunteer Week

June 9, 2025

The museum has 50 volunteers who give over 2,500 hours of their…

Object of the Month – June 2025

June 9, 2025

Fossilised vertebra from a pliosaur’s backbone At the museum,…

Advanced Cyanotype workshop 4 June 2025

May 19, 2025

Object of the Month – May 2025

May 19, 2025

May’s Object of the Month is the bed displayed in the museum’s…

Big Birthday Bash – “Wonders” – 190 Years of Saffron Walden Museum

April 28, 2025

We're celebrating 190 years of Saffron Walden Museum, as…

Museum Society talk : The History of Saffron Walden Museum (celebrating 190 years)

April 7, 2025

Easter Holiday Activities

April 3, 2025

Book your tickets now for our egg-citing, arty and affordable…

Wonders: 190 years of Saffron Walden Museum

February 28, 2025

We are nearly 190 years old (189 years and 10 months, approximately),…

Art Competition. What’s Your Favourite Wonder?

February 28, 2025

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Visit Saffron Walden Museum

One of Britain’s oldest museums, Saffron Walden Museum has unusually rich and varied collections including natural history, ancient Egypt and Greece, archaeology, local history, ceramics and glass, furniture, woodwork and textiles.

The ethnography collection is of world significance. Open year round, this award-winning, family-friendly museum stands in an enclosed meadow beside the ruins of the 12th-century Walden Castle.

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One of the oldest purpose built museums in the country. Our varied collection features archaeology, social, natural and local history plus much more!

Saffron Walden Museum has seen and holds a lot of

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Standard Opening Times

Monday – Closed

Tuesday – Open 10am-5pm

Wednesday – Open for schools and pre-booked groups only during term time.

In Essex School Holidays we are open to the public 10am-5pm on Wednesdays

Thursday, Friday & Saturday: Open 10am – 5pm

Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays: Open 2pm-5pm

(During the winter months we close earlier at 4.30pm November – February)

Contact Us

Saffron Walden Museum
Museum Street,
Saffron Walden,
Essex.
CB10 1BN
Tel: 01799 510333

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