Saffron Walden Museum

Saffron Walden Museum website - come to the Museum

Saffron Walden Museum has its very own website where you can find out about the latest exhibitions, special events and teaching sessions plus lots more. Just click on the picture on the left or use the link below to start exploring.

Completing the Look: 300 Years of Fashion Accessories
28 January - 30 July 2017

For the past three centuries, fashion has been affected by politics, social change and popular culture. Both men and women have used what they wear to indicate their status, comply with social expectations, attract or please a partner, or send a message about their own individuality.

Seaside Holidays

Wednesday 26 July, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm

From flip-flops to floppy hats, sunglasses to swimwear, there are lots of accessories you can wear to the beach. Inspired by our current exhibition, Completing the Look: 300 Years of Fashion Accessories, you can design and create your own seaside holiday accessories to take home with you.

Stone Age Day

Wednesday 16 August, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm

To celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, Life in the Ice Age, we'll have a special visit from a Stone Age Man! He'll be setting up camp in the museum grounds and showing you what life was like in the Stone Age. You can even touch some tools made thousands of years ago. Please contact the museum for more information.

Shell Creatures

Wednesday 23 August, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm

Get crafty and make your own sea creatures out of shells. Use one of our shells or bring any that you've collected from the beach.
Drop-in sessions, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm. Usual admission charges apply and children must bring an adult.

A full list of exhibitions and events at the Museum can be found on the new website ►

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Saffron Walden Museum in 1845

Discover a world of surprises in one of Britain's oldest museums

Saffron Walden Museum opened in 1835. With wide-ranging collections, from moccasins and mummy cases to mammoth tusks and Wallace the lion, it still contains much to "stand awhile and admire". This award-winning, "friendly, family-size museum" is open 363 days a year. Collections cover the human and natural history of north-west Essex, from ancient times to the present day, and many other wonderful objects from the wider world.

The Museum is set in an enclosed grass meadow, suitable for picnics, with a small car park and access for disabled visitors. It stands beside the ruins of the 12th century Walden Castle. The lovely mediaeval market town of Saffron Walden is on our doorstep, with a fine parish church, two mazes and beautiful Bridge End Garden.

2 to 4.30pm

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