Clare Sams – ‘Self/Contained’ Exhibition
About Felixstowe Museum's temporary exhibition for 2025.
FELIXSTOWE MUSEUM
Landguard Point
Welcome to the Museum of All Things Felixstowe
14 Exhibition Rooms – One Amazing Find
Felixstowe Museum is an award-winning community museum with charitable status, located in Landguard’s rare Victorian Submarine Mining Establishment since 1982. Explore artefacts which bring to life the military and social history of Suffolk’s most southerly seaside town.
Children’s Trail – £1.00
Explore Felixstowe Museum with our trail for beady-eyed young visitors.
HMS Beehive’s Story
All about our coastal forces’ most successful wartime base located at Landguard Felixstowe.
Fascinating Felixstowe Cabinets of Curiosities
Our permanent collections house objects of maritime, military, social and local interest and tell the story from Henry VIII to Charles II.
Archaeology collections share insights into Suffolk’s world in the Palaeolithic period and there are also artefacts found on our Felixstowe doorstep which date to Roman and Medieval times. Our social history galleries showcase how people have lived and worked in Felixstowe through different points in more recent times.
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A place with a story of its own
Felixstowe Museum is located in the UK’s only surviving purpose-built Submarine Mining Establishment. The ‘Ravelin Block’ was completed by the Royal Engineers in 1878.
Mines were electrically connected, tested and stored here, but this was just part of a much bigger site. They were transported on a narrow gauge trolley way.
Original rails which led out to the riverside mining jetty are on view as well as traces of another trolley way along the Museum corridor.
Sip back & relax
Busy bees will love Felixstowe Museum’s Beehive Café – a bright little hideaway tucked away in historic surroundings. It shares opening times with the Museum but is open to visitors and non-visitors alike, serving delicious snacks, cakes and treats as well as that all important coffee or cuppa!
Named after HMS Beehive, Britain’s most successful wartime base, located nearby, the café is the ideal spot to refresh, relax and maybe even reflect a while…
About the Café HMS Beehive's Story
Why not get involved?
Love Felixstowe? Like history? Enjoy meeting people? Perhaps you have a special skill or talent you could put to good use? Felixstowe Museum is run by volunteers and we’re always looking for new people to join us.
From ‘front of museum’ roles to behind the scenes support, a few hours of your time can make a big difference to the Museum, your own wellbeing – and everyone!
Find out moreFamily-friendly Felixstowe Museum
Planes, trains, cranes, time-honoured teddy bears and a dolls house that’s brimming with new discoveries every time you visit… There’s so much for little ones to love in Felixstowe Museum and we just love welcoming visitors young in age – or young at heart! From providing little steps to make peering up into displays just that tiny be easier to creating activity trails to help primary aged children explore and learn more, our volunteers know how to make a difference to your visit.
Don’t miss our ever-popular Trewick Owl Trail – it’s a real hoot!
Discover Felixstowe Museum at Landguard
Award-winning Felixstowe Museum is located in a rare Victorian Submarine Mining Establishment. It is a community museum which focuses on the stories of Felixstowe and its people, past, present and future.
Military memorabilia, worlds in miniature, tales of Suffragettes and racing Submarine Spitfire seaplanes, historic shop displays and delivery vans – Felixstowe Museum shares 14 exhibition rooms and is in itself one fascinating find!
This unique ‘Ravelin Block’ building includes real and rare insights into how underwater mines were made and transported, including the tramway which carried them out to sea to defend Harwich Haven.
Proud to be sharing & safeguarding the past
Felixstowe Museum is an accredited museum. This is recognition that we meet agreed industry standards for good practice in our sector. It demonstrates that the museum is well-managed and properly cares for its collections, as well as being dedicated to providing a high quality experience for our visitors.
It goes without saying that we take our responsibilities of curation and care very seriously. All our team of staff and volunteers – however they choose to get involved – are supported with training and opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge.
Dog-friendly Felixstowe Museum
At Felixstowe Museum, we aim to extend a warm welcome to all of our visitors – and that includes your four-legged friends.
Well-behaved dogs (with well-behaved owners!) are welcome inside the museum rooms and corridors, as well as in the Beehive Café.
There is also outdoor seating in front of the museum and you’ll find a water bowl for dogs (visiting or just passing) close to the main door.
