Halloween at the Museum (Sunday)
2025-10-26 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Burwell Museum & Windmill, Mill Close, Burwell, CB25 0HL, United Kingdom
£8 per child (special priced advance online tickets only. £10 if bought on the day at the museum). Must be accompanied by an adult (free)

Sunday tickets

Special activities:

Scavenger Hunt,
Sensory Boxes,
Crafts,
Story Telling,
Bone Man,
Bug Man,
Face Painting,
Holiday Treats for sale in the Tea Room, prizes

– Fancy Dress encouraged!
Online sales end 2 days before event date.
Museum admission applies for anyone not taking part in the Halloween event.
Tea room open for snacks and hot & cold drinks.
Dogs are welcome on a lead. No dogs allowed inside our tea room or windmill, except for assistance dogs. Water is available from the outside tap on our toilet block, but please bring your own bowl. (This water is from the mains so it’s suitable for humans too)
Visitor parking is at the Gardiner Memorial Hall in the High Street (near the 5 Bells pub). Short walk from rear left corner of the car park to the museum. Please leave Mill Close clear for disabled badge holders.
Cycles
We have cycle racks just outside our main gate.

Christmas Cake Decorating Workshop
2025-11-15 10:00 - 13:00
Come and learn how to decorate your Christmas cake the professional way!
Tutor: Professional cake decorator Liz Ungless.
All you need to provide is an apron
All tools and ingredients, including the cake, will be provided by us.
Only 15 places available! Tickets only available online. £35 + booking fee.

The rest of the museum will be closed.
No tickets available on the day.
Tickets are not refundable.
Cycle parking available right by the museum entrance.
Car Parking in Gardiner Memorial Hall car park. 5 minutes walk from pedestrian gate in rear of the car park to the museum.

Santa's Grotto - Sunday (Santa in the mill)
2025-12-07 10:00 - 16:00
Come and meet Santa and his elves at the windmill this weekend!
This was such a success in 2024 that we’re doing it again in 2025 on 2 days!

Choose a 20 minute slot with Santa in the windmill from 10am. Present for every child.
See traditional Christmas decorations in the museum’s Barn
Story telling with a Christmas theme.
Craft activities for children
Traditional spinning demonstrations.
Mulled wine, Burwell Brewery ales, hot chocolate and mince pies on sale.
Christmassy soft toys and decorations on sale
Local history books on sale
Other gift and Christmassy items on sale.

Tickets £15* per child. Only available online. (*plus small booking fee) ONLINE SALES END 7pm SATURDAY 6th DEC. If you miss the deadline feel to come to the museum during the day on Saturday to enquire if we have any time slots left.
Sunday tickets

Please enter name of each child, plus their age and gender at the checkout where promted (This is so the present that they receive is suitable for their age and gender)

Maximum of 6 children per slot (your child might be in a group of other children)
Only ticket holders meet Santa (accompanying parents/grandparents free of charge but don’t get a present 😄).
The Barn will be open to everyone, including those not bringing children to meet Santa, to see the demonstrations, and make purchases at our pop-up Christmas shop.

The only buildings open will be the windmill (Santa’s grotto), the Main Barn and the toilet block. No access to other parts of the museum site or buildings.

Parking :
Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, just off the High Street near the 5 Bells pub. It will be signed as “Burwell Museum Open – Car Park” during opening hours. What3Words location of carpark entrance ///intestine.dictation.goat
Short walk from rear left of the car park to the museum.

Displays/demonstrations/performances in the Barn may change, but we will try to update this page with the changes as soon as possible.

Easter Eggstravaganza (Easter Egg Hunt)
2026-04-05 10:00 - 16:00
Easter Egg hunt, windmill tours and more for the whole family at our first open day of the year
Usual Museum admission applies.
Pay at the Admission cabin on the day, or online in advance.

Easter Family Fun at Burwell Museum & Windmill. Sunday 5th April 2026, 10am – 4pm (last admission 3pm)

Easter Egg hunt £3
Chocolate prize for every egg hunter even if you don’t finish. (Start any time between 10am – 3pm)
Raffle £1 (drawn at 3:15pm)
Facepainting. £2
Crafts for children
Peep-through boards
Windmill tours £2 per person. (Minimum height 1.1metres) Tickets from the Admission Cabin or buy them in advance with your museum admission tickets online.
Hot Cross Buns and other Easter treats on sale in our newly refurbished, and soon to be extended, tea room.
Driving and parking
If driving to the museum please do not park in Mill Close unless you are a disabled badge holder. Free parking is available in the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park. Please see the Find us page for more info.
There are no buses serving Burwell on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
Don’t forget that we are open again on Easter Monday This will be just an open day with no events.

National Mills Open Weekend - Saturday and Sunday
2026-05-09 10:00 - 2026-05-10 16:00
#nationalmillsweekend
Free tours of Stevens’ Mill
Entry to the rest of the museum is optional but chargeable.
10am – 4pm Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2026
A particular focus on Stevens’ Mill, Burwell’s only remaining windmill, 13 years since its major restoration.
Learn about milling and wind power, grind grain using quern stones and climb all four floors to the top of the mill and look out across the views of Burwell and beyond.
Meet members of the mill team and find out more about the history of our mill through photographs.
Mill Tours (free) need to be booked on arrival or online as we can only take a limited number of people upstairs at any one time. If you would like to see the rest of the museum then admission charges apply for that.
Saturday tickets

Sunday tickets

Extra ‘goodies’ on sale in our Tea Room, including homemade windmill biscuits.

Please note, for safety reasons, you must be at least 1.1 metres tall for a mill tour. No high heel shoes. No flipflops. No carrying children or animals up the ladders. No bags. The mill tour guide has the right to refuse access above the ground floor based on a visitor’s fitness and ability. The ladders are steep and narrow. If a visitor can not climb unaided they will be refused access.
Further Stevens Mill info here.
Car Parking
If driving to the museum please park in the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park in the High Street. This will be signed as Museum Carpark during our opening hours. Carpark entrance location on What3Words ///intestine.dictation.goat and on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/VaG7SXJQSLqd2aQn7 . If the carpark is full please park in the surrounding streets.
Please do not park in Mill Close unless you are a disabled badge holder. Wherever you park please be considerate of residents.
Cycle parking available next to the mill near the entrance to the museum.
No dogs allowed in the tearoom or the windmill, apart from assistance dogs. Dogs welcome in our outdoor areas.
Mill Guide and two visitors

Bank Holiday Monday
2026-05-25 10:00 - 16:00
It’s a Bank Holiday Monday which means that we are open today (Closed Saturday this weekend)
No event. Last admission 3pm.
Normal admission charges
Pay at the Admission cabin on the day, or online in advance.

1940s Day
2026-07-12 10:00 - 16:00
12th July, 2026 10am-4pm, last admission 3pm.

Step back in time to the 1940’s to dance, dine, swing and sing!

With the GI 41-45 WW2 Military Re-enactors,
Singers Sarah Mae and Michael Anthony
East Anglia Swing Troupe (tbc)
Vehicles.
Stalls.
Dance floor
Food stall
Licensed bar (including locally brewed Burwell Brewery beers)
Home made cakes in our recently refurbished and extended tearoom.
Ice-cream from Scoopy Doo
Winston Churchill & Mrs Churchill (tbc)
Mildenhall Scale Model Club – hand built models of period aircraft and vehicles.

Dressing in 40s clothes encouraged, especially if children come dressed as evacuees! Feel free to dance!
Here are some photos from a previous 1940s day. (Best viewed in landscape on mobile devices)

Admission charges apply (free for Season Ticket holders)

Provisional Running Order : (available nearer to the day)
Location map on the Find Us page which also gives directions to get to the museum. A map of the museum site is available to download from the Explore page.
Car Parking As the museum is in the middle of a residential area, we ask able-bodied visitors to not park in Mill Close and cause difficulties for our lovely neighbours! Please leave Mill Close for residents and the disabled.
Free parking is available in the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, in Burwell High Street (CB25 0HD, look out for the A-board opposite the car park entrance when we’re open). The museum is a short walk (about 200m) along Mill Close – find the museum sign (rear left of carpark), go up the path out of the car park and take the road which leads straight ahead just to your left.Carpark entrance location on What3Words ///intestine.dictation.goat and on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/VaG7SXJQSLqd2aQn7. Please note that this carpark is not suitable for anything larger than a 4×4 due to the risk of grounding on the steep entrance. Larger vehicles (camper vans etc) should use the Burwell Surgery carpark in Newmarket Road.
Additional parking is available at Burwell Surgery Car Park in Newmarket Road. (CB25-0AE). What3Words ///filer.viewer.spiking. This is located a few minute’s walk from the Museum via Newmarket Road, High Street and Mill Lane.
The locations for parking are marked with temporary signs
Carpark locations. (Click image to enlarge)
Parking is to the rear of the surgery, and please park with due consideration to others.
You can download and print our poster by clicking the image below. Perhaps give a copy to someone who isn’t online.

Classic Car and Bike Day
2026-08-16 10:00 - 16:00
Roll back the years and join us for a friendly classic car and bike show. See fabulous elderly vehicles including our 1907 Holsman, 1962 AEC Burwell & District coach and 3 Austin 7s, plus visiting vehicles including : 1965 Ford Mustang, 1987 Citroen 2CV, 1950s Citroen Traction.
More vehicles being confirmed daily. The ones listed are just a few of those that have been confirmed so far. There will be around 40-50 cars plus a selection of motorbikes.
If you would like to bring your own classic car or bike (the older or more unusual the better) please contact us to apply for a space. One of the Trustees will then send you a short form to fill in and return. Small vintage tractors and vans are also welcome. We only have a limited amount of space but we will do our best to get as many vehicles in as is practical.
Please do not bring your classic car unless you have had confirmation from us. Those who have returned their forms and have had confirmation will be contacted by Saturday 15th August with instructions for getting on site on Sunday.

Whole museum open as normal.
Windmill running (subject to sufficient wind and available, trained, volunteers).
Spinning demonstrations (tbc)
Enjoy refreshments from our tearoom.
Locally brewed real ales from Burwell Brewery, plus other alcoholic drinks available from our licensed bar.

Museum admission applies. (Driver and passengers of each classic car at this event will have free admission and free refreshments)
Buy your admission in advance or at the museum on the day.

Dogs are welcome on a lead. No dogs allowed inside our tea room or windmill, except for assistance dogs. Water is available from the outside tap on our toilet block and outside the tea room, but please bring your own bowl. (This water is from the mains so it’s suitable for thirsty humans too!)
Location map on the Find Us page which also gives directions to get to the museum. A map of the museum site is available to download from the Explore page.
Parking :

Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, just off the High Street near the 5 Bells pub. It will be signed as “Burwell Museum Open – Car Park” during opening hours. What3Words location of carpark entrance ///intestine.dictation.goat Short walk from rear left of the car park to the museum.
Additional parking for this event at Burwell Surgery, Newmarket Road (What3Words ///filer.viewer.spiking). Pedestrian route to and from the surgery carpark will be via Newmarket Road>High Street>Mill Lane.
Mill Close is for disabled badge holders and residents of the close.

Car Parking

Carpark locations. (Click image to enlarge)

Please park with due consideration to others.

Heritage Open Days
2026-09-12 10:00 - 2026-09-13 16:00
Saturday and Sunday 12th and 13th September
Free admission, including mill tours, today!

Further details to follow, but will include the followin…
Blacksmith demonstrating in the Forge
Traditional spinning demonstrations

Museum & mill open as normal.
Parking
Please park in the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park in the High Street. Directions here. Cycle parking right by museum entrance.
10:00am-4:00pm. Last admission 3:00pm. Free entry.

Halloween at the Museum (Saturday)
2026-10-24 10:00 - 16:00
£** per child (special priced advance online tickets only. £** if bought on the day at the museum). Must be accompanied by an adult (free) Prices and tickets available soon
Saturday tickets
Special activities:
Scavenger Hunt,
Sensory Boxes,
Crafts,
Story Telling,
Bone Man,
Bug Man,
Face Painting,
Holiday Treats for sale in the Tea Room, prizes

– Fancy Dress encouraged!
Online sales end 2 days before event date.
Museum admission applies for anyone not taking part in the Halloween event.
Tea room open for snacks and hot & cold drinks.
Dogs are welcome on a lead. No dogs allowed inside our tea room or windmill, except for assistance dogs. Water is available from the outside tap on our toilet block, but please bring your own bowl. (This water is from the mains so it’s suitable for humans too)
Visitor parking is at the Gardiner Memorial Hall in the High Street (near the 5 Bells pub). Short walk from rear left corner of the car park to the museum. Please leave Mill Close clear for disabled badge holders.
Cycles
We have cycle racks just outside our main gate.

Santa's Grotto - Saturday and Sunday (Santa in the mill)
2026-12-05 10:00 - 2026-12-06 16:00
Come and meet Santa and his elves at the windmill this weekend!

Choose a 20 minute slot with Santa in the windmill from 10am. Present for every child.
See traditional Christmas decorations in the mill and the museum’s Barn
Story telling with a Christmas theme. (Barn)
Craft activities for children (Barn)
Mulled wine, Burwell Brewery ales, hot chocolate and mince pies on sale. (Barn)
Christmassy soft toys and decorations on sale (Barn)
Local history books on sale (Barn)
Other gift and Christmassy items on sale. (Barn)

Tickets £??* per child. Only available online. (*plus small booking fee).
Price and tickets available from late summer.

Please enter name and age of each child at the checkout where promted (This is so the present that they receive is suitable for their age)
Maximum of 6 children per slot (your child might be in a group of other children)
Only ticket holders meet Santa (accompanying parents/guardians etc can watch free of charge but don’t get a present 😄).
The Barn will be open to everyone (including those not bringing children to meet Santa, to see the demonstrations, the choir, and make purchases at our pop-up Christmas shop.
If you need to change your day/timeslot or cancel altogether, please inform us by email ASAP and, if possible, we will make the requested change.

The only buildings open will be the windmill (Santa’s grotto), the Main Barn and the toilet block. No access to other parts of the museum site or buildings.
Parking :
Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, just off the High Street near the 5 Bells pub. It will be signed as “Burwell Museum Open – Car Park” during opening hours. What3Words location of carpark entrance ///intestine.dictation.goat
Short walk from rear left of the car park to the museum.
Santa checking his list of good children.
Children listening to Christmas tales from the Storyteller.
Christmassy refreshments on sale.

Displays/demonstrations/performances in the Barn may change, but we will try to update this page with the changes as soon as possible.
