Ipswich Museum

Housed in an impressive Victorian building on High Street – a leisurely half-hour stroll from the Waterfront – Ipswich Museum hosts galleries devoted to Suffolk geology and wildlife, British mammals and birds, and an amazing Natural History Gallery: step inside and you’re greeted by a life-sized model of a woolly mammoth! The Queen Anne facade features swags, dragons, floral and fossil mouldings, false pillars and framed sections, while inside there are eclectic collections exploring Ipswich’s past and curios from around the world.

The Museum is home to a wide range of collections, from natural science to Egyptology, social history to world cultures.

Step back in time to when Ipswich was a vast area of grassland and our ancestors used stone tools.

Continue on and discover how we learnt how to use bronze and iron and became a medieval town.

Then explore Cardinal Wolsey’s birthplace and see how it survived through Civil war, World wars and into a modern era.