Mersea Island Museum

High Street
West Mersea, Colchester
Essex
CO5 8QD
England

Website

Mersea Museum

www.merseamuseum.org.uk

E-mail

Enquiries

info@merseamuseum.org.uk

School visits

Schools@merseamuseum.org.uk

Telephone

01206 385191

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
The Museum Garden
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The Mersea Island Museum is an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building are represented. The reconstruction within the museum of a typical weather-boarded fisherman's cottage provides an interior display centred on a Victorian coal-fired kitchen range, with adjoining facilities for washing clothes using old-fashioned manual equipment.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Beginning of May to end of September
Wed-Sun 14.00-17.00
Open bank holidays

 Admission charges

Adults: £1
Senior Citizens: 50p
Children: 50p (under 5 yrs old are free)

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • General audio-guide available
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
 Disability access
  • Audio guides specifically for blind and partially sighted people
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Additional info

During the May to September season, we can open at other times for group and school bookings.

High Street
West Mersea, Colchester
Essex
CO5 8QD
England

Website

Mersea Museum

www.merseamuseum.org.uk

E-mail

Enquiries

info@merseamuseum.org.uk

School visits

Schools@merseamuseum.org.uk

Telephone

01206 385191

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Maritime, Personalities, Photography, Science and Technology, Social History, Weapons and War

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service

High Street
West Mersea, Colchester
Essex
CO5 8QD
England

Website

Mersea Museum

www.merseamuseum.org.uk

E-mail

Enquiries

info@merseamuseum.org.uk

School visits

Schools@merseamuseum.org.uk

Telephone

01206 385191

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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