Aldeburgh Museum
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Overview
The museum inside the Moot Hall on Aldeburgh’s seafront tells the fascinating story of the town’s history. This Grade I listed timber-framed, flint-and-brick hall was built in Tudor times and would have been the focal point of Aldeburgh’s market square. It now stands in isolation, almost on the shingle beach where fishermen draw up their boats, but would almost certainly have once been surrounded by similar Tudor buildings that have vanished into the sea. On its gabled wall is a sundial with the date 1650; it was added around 130 years after the hall was built. The building was restored in 1854 and Jacobean-style chimneys added. As well as the museum, it houses the council chamber, as it has done for the past 400 years.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: See Aldeburgh Museum's website for opening times.
- Facilities
- Parking nearby
- Children
- Suitable for children of all ages
About the area
Suffolk is Constable country, where the county’s crumbling, time-ravaged coastline spreads itself under wide skies to convey a wonderful sense of remoteness and solitude. Highly evocative and atmospheric, this is where rivers wind lazily to the sea and notorious 18th-century smugglers hid from the excise men.
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