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Aldeburgh Museum
Aldeburgh Museum is housed in the Moot Hall, one of the best-preserved Tudor public buildings in Britain.
Dating from the mid-16th Century, it originally contained six small shops and a prison on the ground floor and a meeting hall on the first floor.
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The building is situated on the site of the old market place which once featured a Market Cross, long since swept out to sea.
When not in use as the Town’s Council Chamber, the first floor hall offers an attractive display area for the Museum. The displays contain items of local interest such as photographs and artefacts depicting life in Aldeburgh. The collection also contains Anglo Saxon finds from 1862 and the Snape ship burial excavations in 1992.
The displays highlight early settlers – Romans and Anglo-Saxon, shipbuilding, trade and fishing, the Aldeburgh witches, Regency resort, Slaughden and the Martello Tower and much more.
The 16th century building recently underwent a refit thanks to a grant awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The museum is open every day from April to end of October and at weekends throughout the rest of the year.
If you would like to visit the museum, please head to the website to check opening times: www.aldeburghmuseum.org.uk
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