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Site Map

Use this map to find your way round the museum!
Click to open a downloadable/printable version for your visit.
Printed copies are also available from the Admission cabin.

The last Burwell bus

Watch bus driver Jim Neale driving the last ever Burwell & District coach, AEC Reliance registration 932 BCE, to its final resting place at Burwell Museum on 29th April 2006. Today you can see the coach up close in the Museum's Vintage Vehicles Gallery.

Look out for these when you visit...

Victorian schoolroom

victorian school room

Experience an old-fashioned education with wooden desks, bells, abacuses and inkwells.

Fen Farming Tools

Fen Farming Tools

See local dyke shovels, chaff cutters, bill hooks, flails, scythes, rakes, osiers, peck measures, dibbers and more.

1950s/60s Phone Exchange

1970s Phone Exchange

Call a friend on our original dial telephones.

1920s Haberdashery Shop

Discover just how different shopping is now and then.

Blacksmith’s Forge

Blacksmith’s Forge

Visit a working forge with hand-operated wheelwright’s lathe and tools.

Vintage Vehicles

Vintage Vehicles

See a rare working 1907 Holsman and an Austin 7, plus an historic bus, bicycles and (even) prams.

Timber-framed Barn

Timber-framed Barn

Learn about fen farming and Burwell home life in the reconstructed 18th-century barn.

Nissen Hut

war time living

Imagine wartime life in our recreated war zone.

Stevens’ Mill

Stevens Mill, Burwell

Discover the sounds and atmosphere of a traditional windmill on our interactive tours.