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

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

Volunteer Thank You Tea Party – National Volunteer Week

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

Object of the Month – June 2025

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

Object of the Month – May 2025

May’s Object of the Month is the bed displayed in the museum’s…
190th birthday of Saffron Walden Museum

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

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

Easter Holiday Activities

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

Wonders: 190 years of Saffron Walden Museum

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

Art Competition. What’s Your Favourite Wonder?

What's your favourite wonder?  What’s your favourite treasure…

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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