Braintree District Museum

Town Hall Centre Gallery
Market Place
Braintree
Essex
CM7 3YG
England

Website

www.enjoybraintree.co.uk/Museums-And-Culture/Braintree-District-Museum/Introduction.aspx

E-mail

museum@braintree.gov.uk

Telephone

01376 325266

Fax

01376 344345

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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The Museum’s galleries interpret the diverse local industrial heritage: the production of fabrics for state occasions during the past 200 years and innovations in metal window design and man-made textiles in which our District led the world.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm including Bank Holidays.

 Admission charges

Admission: £2.00
Students, Senior Citizens and Under 16s: £1.00.
50% discount for Braintree District Council residents.

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • 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
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Library with public access
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Town Hall Centre Gallery
Market Place
Braintree
Essex
CM7 3YG
England

Website

www.enjoybraintree.co.uk/Museums-And-Culture/Braintree-District-Museum/Introduction.aspx

E-mail

museum@braintree.gov.uk

Telephone

01376 325266

Fax

01376 344345

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 lives of the early people of Braintree District are shown through the Museum’s archaeology collections. They range from Stone Age flint handaxes to eighteenth century trade tokens. Extensive archaeology archives are held from the Roman town of Braintree and Medieval Cressing Temple.

The Museum holds collections of the textile industry that dominated the District, including the nineteenth and twentieth century companies of Courtaulds and Warners. In addition there is a good collection from the Crittall Manufacturing Company who continue to make metal windows in Braintree.

As well as a diverse collection of ceramics collected by the Courtauld family, the Museum hold a distinctive group of Castle Hedingham pottery designed by Edward Bingham. There is also a selection of works by the Great Bardfield artists.

The everyday lives of people in the District over the last 200 years are covered in the photography, local and social history collections.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Science and Technology, Social History

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Town Hall Centre Gallery
Market Place
Braintree
Essex
CM7 3YG
England

Website

www.enjoybraintree.co.uk/Museums-And-Culture/Braintree-District-Museum/Introduction.aspx

E-mail

museum@braintree.gov.uk

Telephone

01376 325266

Fax

01376 344345

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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