www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk

Site last updated:
22 September 2008

WELCOME TO WALLINGFORD MUSEUM
- where local history comes to life!

Wallingford Museum is a colourful and delightfully intimate local history museum, housed on two floors of this medieval oak-beamed building in the heart of Wallingford in Oxfordshire, a Thames-side town founded in the tenth century by Alfred the Great. From the Museum's windows, you can see the remains of the great earthworks of Alfred's planned town.

Inside, the attractions include:

• The Wallingford Story, a SIGHT & SOUND experience – a walk through time from the Romans and Saxons to the Civil War, including a miniature re-creation of Wallingford’s huge royal Castle, accompanied by an audio tape included free with your ticket.

• a Victorian Street Scene with walk-in Shop, Pub, Workshop & Workhouse peepshow

• special features on the River Thames, Wallingford Bridge, Roman burials from Crowmarsh and a detailed scale model of Wallingford Station

• special exhibitions - for a glimpse of this year's click here and for a taster of last year's click here

• a Museum Shop with a range of new books on local subjects, a selection of gifts and mementoes with an historical theme, and a wide choice of second-hand books.

We suggest you allow at least an hour and a half for your visit. But you can always come back again later provided you keep your ticket!

Check out the latest Museum News by clicking here and for information about The Wallingford Historical and Archaeological Society (TWHAS), including the 2008 Meetings Programme, click here.

What's new for 2008

This year we have not one but TWO Special Exhibitions - from now until the end of October it will be In Touch with Our Ancestors then for the whole of November, Wallingford's Artistic Legacy - the Victorian Painters, their Pupils & Descendants. And, because our ordinary £4 adult ticket gives you unlimited admission for the whole season, you'll be able to see both at no extra cost! Click here for details.

Click here for details of opening hours and admission charges.

Wallingford Museum is a Company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales.
It is managed in association with The Wallingford Historical & Archaeological Society (TWHAS) and is a registered charity. It was one of the first museums in Oxfordshire to be fully registered.