www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk

Site last updated:
28 January 2012

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

For latest details about the winding up of the Museum's cancelled annexe project,  FRAMING THE FUTURE,  click on this logo

Wallingford Museum is a colourful, delightfully intimate and family friendly 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 ramparts 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 tour included free with your ticket.

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

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

• special exhibitions - for information on what's in store for 2012 come back to this site later

• 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 other latest Museum News by clicking here and for information about The Wallingford Historical and Archaeological Society (TWHAS), including the 2011 Meetings Programme, click here.

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 and is now fully accredited by the MLA.