Bexhill Museum
A traditional volunteer-run collection
Visit us
Bexhill Museum is open six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday and Bank Holidays, 11:00am to 4:00pm. Come and see our unique collections. Everything from dinosaur footprints to the history of the town's iconic De la Warr Pavilion. Plus everything in between, and Eddie Izzard's amazing model railways.
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What's happening
Hats Hats Hats!
Welcome to Bexhill Museum’s current special exhibition Hats Hats Hats! a collaboration between Bexhill Museum and Queen’s University Bader College in Herstmonceux.
Our busy Education Team is looking for new volunteers
The Education Team at Bexhill Museum is a busy and thriving group of volunteers. If you love working with children, we would be interested in talking to you.
Bringing Bexhill’s Merryweather Home
Bexhill fire crews from East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service and the team at Bexhill Museum are fundraising to help restore a historic fire engine – and we want your help.
Bexhill: Where two worlds met, thousands of years ago
An archaeological study suggests the connection between local Neolithic farmers and Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers was more complex than we thought.
Open from this week @bexhill_museum - Hats! Hats! Hats! - a splendid exhibition of lovely historic headgear from our collection. On display every day except Monday, 11-4pm. Call by and follow our friends #EastboundFromEastbourne on the @coastalculturetrail, @dlwp & Flatland Projects putting a spotlight on #Bexhill during #TurnerPrize2023.
Open from this week @bexhill_museum - Hats! Hats! Hats! - a splendid exhibition of lovely historic headgear from our collection. On display every day except Monday, 11-4pm. Call by and follow our friends #EastboundFromEastbourne on the @coastalculturetrail, @dlwp & Flatland Projects putting a spotlight on #Bexhill during #TurnerPrize2023.
Opening this week @bexhill_museum - Hats! Hats! Hats! - a splendid exhibition of lovely historic headgear from our collection. On display every day except Monday, 11-4pm. Call by and follow our friends #EastboundFromEastbourne on the @coastalculturetrail, @dlwp & Flatland Projects putting a spotlight on #Bexhill during #TurnerPrize2023.
Opening this week @bexhill_museum - Hats! Hats! Hats! - a splendid exhibition of lovely historic headgear from our collection. On display every day except Monday, 11-4pm. Call by and follow our friends #EastboundFromEastbourne on the @coastalculturetrail, @dlwp & Flatland Projects putting a spotlight on #Bexhill during #TurnerPrize2023.
Subscribers to #Scuba the @bsacdivers members`s magazine can catch up with a fine article by Dom Robinson about the Klein Hollandia wreck dives . If you are currently missing a boat, but can get on a train, come down to @Bexhill_Museum, where we have some of the dive team`s finds from this 1672 wreck on display. #Bexhill
Subscribers to #Scuba the @bsacdivers members`s magazine can catch up with a fine article by Dom Robinson about the Klein Hollandia wreck dives . If you are currently missing a boat, but can get on a train, come down to @Bexhill_Museum, where we have some of the dive team`s finds from this 1672 wreck on display. #Bexhill
"Barnhern Lane, Little Common, Bexhill." Barnhorn Road, #LittleCommon #Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard sent 23.12.1925. Not sure where this #photo was taken? Barnhorn Road was widened c.1928. The cross shows where the sender`s father lives. #History #1920s #Roads #Street #Postcards
"Barnhern Lane, Little Common, Bexhill." Barnhorn Road, #LittleCommon #Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard sent 23.12.1925. Not sure where this #photo was taken? Barnhorn Road was widened c.1928. The cross shows where the sender`s father lives. #History #1920s #Roads #Street #Postcards
"A Class At St. Mary Magdalen R.C. School.
Which has just been recognised by the local authority."
@BexhillObs 17.9.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #School #Schools #History #1910s
"A Class At St. Mary Magdalen R.C. School.
Which has just been recognised by the local authority."
@BexhillObs 17.9.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #School #Schools #History #1910s
Saved from a rough sea, strongly running at half-tide, members of the crew of a US B-17 Flying Fortress bomber forced to ditch off Bexhill beach #onthisday, 11 September 1943. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #Aviation #History #USAAF #B17
Saved from a rough sea, strongly running at half-tide, members of the crew of a US B-17 Flying Fortress bomber forced to ditch off Bexhill beach #onthisday, 11 September 1943. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #Aviation #History #USAAF #B17
We have a new item in our cabinet of Roman and Celtic treasures. It is believed to be a Roman eagle brooch. #Bexhill
We have a new item in our cabinet of Roman and Celtic treasures. It is believed to be a Roman eagle brooch. #Bexhill
Our next coffee morning is on: Thursday 4th November
from: 10.30-12pm. A warm welcome awaits you as well as a raffle and stalls.
Coffee or tea and biscuits is only £1.50 per person.
We have a coffee morning on the first Thursday of every month
Our next coffee morning is on: Thursday 4th November
from: 10.30-12pm. A warm welcome awaits you as well as a raffle and stalls.
Coffee or tea and biscuits is only £1.50 per person.
We have a coffee morning on the first Thursday of every month
Coffee mornings are back up and running at the Museum.
Our next one is on: Thursday 7th October
From: 10.30-12 pm with a raffle, bric-a-brac and book stall.
Our coffee or tea and biscuits is only a £1.50 per person. See you there!
Coffee mornings are back up and running at the Museum.
Our next one is on: Thursday 7th October
From: 10.30-12 pm with a raffle, bric-a-brac and book stall.
Our coffee or tea and biscuits is only a £1.50 per person. See you there!
GREAT NEWS: Our COFFEE MORNINGS start again next week.
ON: Thursday 2nd September
FROM: 10.30 - 12 pm
and every first Thursday of the month thereafter.
WHERE: Education room at the Museum.
There will be a raffle taking place as well as a Bric-a-Brac and book stall.
Our coffee or tea and biscuits is only £1.50 per person.
It will be lovely to see you!
GREAT NEWS: Our COFFEE MORNINGS start again next week.
ON: Thursday 2nd September
FROM: 10.30 - 12 pm
and every first Thursday of the month thereafter.
WHERE: Education room at the Museum.
There will be a raffle taking place as well as a Bric-a-Brac and book stall.
Our coffee or tea and biscuits is only £1.50 per person.
It will be lovely to see you!
All museums should look like this: The lovely Wisbech and Fenland Museum has secured a £616k Historic England grant to save its iconic building. https://museumcrush.org/one-of-the-uks-oldest-purpose-built-museums-rescued/
All museums should look like this: The lovely Wisbech and Fenland Museum has secured a £616k Historic England grant to save its iconic building. https://museumcrush.org/one-of-the-uks-oldest-purpose-built-museums-rescued/
Southern Electric railway poster from 1937. We love the graphics on these. #Bexhill
Southern Electric railway poster from 1937. We love the graphics on these. #Bexhill