Sidmouth Museum

Sidmouth Museum

Sidmouth Museum offers 'Something for Everyone'. The local history of Sidmouth has been greatly influenced by the wide variety of people, some very famous, who have lived and visited the area.

Our displays aim to engage and inspire the widest possible audience. The museum have an extensive collection of fossils, minerals and rocks, many of which are from the Sidmouth area and the cliffs of the UNESCO Dorset and Devon World Heritage site, the Jurassic Coast. Interactive digital displays of Sidmouth's History, Sidmouth Museum's Art Collection, Sidmouth Museum's Lace collection and Biodiversity in the Sid Valley

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  • NEW Digital Interactive 'History of Sidmouth'

    The History of Sidmouth, with over 1500 illustrations and text - takes you from the small fishing village in the late 1700s, onto the fashionable seaside resort of the 1800s, through the bad and good times of the 1900s into today's much loved jewel of the East Devon Coast.

Admission & prices

OPENING HOURS: Monday to Friday 10 to 16.00 hrs, Saturday 10 to 13.00 hrs, Sundays Closed

ADMISSION Adults £2.50 Under 16s and SVA Members Free

GUIDED WALKS 2022: Every week during season on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (alternate weeks), Thursday and Friday mornings,
(see www.sidmouthmuseum.co.uk for more information)
All walks leave the Museum at 10.30, pay at Museum before the walk - Adults £2.50 Under 16s and SVA Members Free

MUSEUM SHOP stocks a large collection of books about Sidmouth and the Sid Valley's history and natural history, also titles by local authors including children's books

Donations are important to the survival of our volunteer run Museum

Find us

From the Market Place look up Church Street and see the Museum at the top of the street next to the Parish Church,

Information

  • Wheelchair access
  • Childrens activities
  • Gift Shop

Wheelchair access to the ground floor.


Public toilets within about 200 yards level ground.

GEOLOGY ROOM - 240 million years of the Jurassic Coast. Our collection is impressive - Fossils and Rocks of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous age, Ammonite and Marine Fossils, 225 million year old Reptile Foot Prints, remains of Ice Age Mammals
ARCHAEOLOGY ROOM - Stone Age to Roman artefacts on display including items from 1971 Holcombe Villa dig
LACE ROOM - Display of Antique Lace from the Museum's large collection - Touch Screen Interactive Display of the Museum Lace Collection
WW2 in Sidmouth - 1942
Early Electronic Gadgets display
Social History displays
Interactive Displays - Biodiversity in the Sid Valley, History of Sidmouth, Museum's Art Collection



YOUNG VISITORS QUIZ follow the trail around the museum to find the clues


GUIDED WALKS BEGIN 4TH APRIL
MUSEUM SHOP with a large range of books and publications on local history, cards and prints of Sidmouth
VISIT THE ONLINE SHOP
FOR MORE DETAILS www.sidmouthmuseum.co.uk

Sidmouth Museum
Hope Cottage
Church Street
SIDMOUTH
EX10 8LY

T: 01395 516139
E: info@sidmouthmuseum.co.uk

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Sidmouth Museum

Sidmouth Museum
Hope Cottage
Church Street
SIDMOUTH, DEVON EX10 8LY