The Museum started when the collection of a local clerk and historian, Alfred Hills and the Courtauld family were displayed within Braintree Town Hall after it opened in 1928. After a succession of different homes for the collection, Braintree District Museum opened...

Marvel at the stunning woodcarving and elaborate panelling inside this merchant's house. Built around 1500 for Thomas Paycocke, the house is a grand example of the wealth generated by the cloth trade in the 16th century. Outside, there is a beautiful and tranquil...

One of Europe's oldest timber-framed buildings, it has a cathedral-like interior. Exhibition of local woodcarving and tools.

A privately owned Postal History Museum in the heart of East Anglia. The collection has been built up over a number of years by one man and now comprises 100 ex-British Post Office letter boxes together with 19 Stamp Vending Machines, documents, uniforms and...

Hedingham Castle's Norman keep, 110 feet high, was built c.1140 by Aubrey de Vere and is still owned by one of his descendants, Jason Lindsay and his wife Demetra. There are four floors to explore, including a magnificent Banqueting Hall spanned by a remarkable 28...

The East Anglian Railway Museum, based just outside Colchester, Essex, is a Working Museum dedicated to preserving the history of railways in the Eastern Counties.

The Museum holds objects and archival material relating to the history of the force from 1840 including personnel, disciplinary and other records, together with more general documents and a large photographic collection.

The Engine House project is based at Sandford Mill, Chelmsford's old waterworks, where the Museum's industrial collections are stored. In our science sessions we use the museum collections and our own purpose built interactive exhibits to give children exciting...

The Museum of Power, set in seven acres of grounds and housed in the Steam Pumping Station at Langford in Essex, exhibits and demonstrates working examples of power sources of all types and chronicles the major roles that they have played in history.

Chelmsford Cathedral surprises people. On first sight it looks a surprisingly modest parish church. "Surely this isn't the Cathedral" people often say or think. But when they step inside they are often amazed by its sense of space, light and colour.