Burwell Museum Trust

Burwell Museum Trust is a small and inspiring local charity run by volunteers who are passionate about Burwell and its history.

In July 1982, a group of Burwell residents decided to create a museum to provide a glimpse of what life was like in a village on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Burwell Museum Trust was set up two years later with the mission ‘to advance the education of the public in the history of Burwell by the provision of a museum’. Eight founding Trustees were empowered to manage the museum.
After a 10-year fundraising and building programme, Burwell Museum opened to the public at
Easter 1992.

In 1997, Stevens’ Mill and its land were given to the museum. Today, the mill is the centrepiece of the museum, which also includes a fascinating mix of buildings, displays and room settings that illustrate the history of rural, farming and 19th- and 20th-century life in the village. The museum is still collecting artefacts, archive material and oral histories in line with the Trust's collections development policy, with a focus on objects which have a clear and documented link to Burwell.

Under the Chair of Trustees, six Trustees currently run the museum. In 2019, Burwell Museum Trust adopted its new Forward Plan for 2019-2022. The plan sets out what the Trust hopes to achieve over the next three years and how it intends to achieve those things, although we will have to adapt some of our plans to adjust to the coronavirus situation. Read the 2019-2022 BMT Forward Plan for more information.

We are currently recruiting new Trustees. For further information please see the Become a Trustee page.