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1940s Day
12th July, 2026 10am-4pm, last admission 3pm.
Step back in time to the 1940’s to dance, dine, swing and sing!
- WW2 Military Re-enactors
- Singers Sarah Mai
and Ryan Hornett 
- Vehicles.
- Stalls.
- Dance floor
- Barbecue with burgers and sausages made with locally reared meat from Spinney Abbey . Rolls from Lane’s Bakery, Burwell. Thank you to the 1st Burwell Scouts for running the barbecue and providing the equipment for it. Profits from barbecue will be split 50/50 between the museum and the Scouts.
- 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.
- Blacksmith demonstrating in the Forge (when he’s not singing!)
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) . Pay in advance online or on the day at the museum.
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
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.
