Woolpit and District Museum

Woolpit and District Museum

Woolpit and District Museum
The Street
Woolpit
Suffolk
IP30 9RF

Tel: 01359 ​24
E-Mail: john.wiley@woolpit.org

Web: Woolpit and District Museum

About Woolpit and District Museum

In the mid 1970's several members of the Woolpit History Group started field walking around the Parish.
After seven years they had accumulated quite a haul of Roman and Medieval Pottery and had confirmed twelve sites where there may have been settlements.
In 1985 it was decided that these finds should be put on display and this became the foundation of The Woolpit Museum.
Due to its size (allegedly the smallest museum in Suffolk) it was decided that displays would be changed annually.
There was one notable exemption, that being our famous Woolpit Brickmaking Display which includes a 3D model of the original site, a collection of Woolpit Bricks, photographs of the brick workers and a new booklet "The History of the Brickworks", which you can buy in the shop .There is also a permanent re-construction of part of a Victorian Kitchen.
Some twenty six years later we have produced and displayed around sixty five different topics, all of which have shown how our village has evolved over the years.
This year the Brick display has been further enhanced. The Model of the Village returns. This time showing where some of the local Tradesmen and their Workshops were once situated.