List of museums in Essex.

Manor Street, Braintree, Essex, CM7 3HW
Tel: 01376 325266 
This award winning museum is based in the converted Courtauld School and has displays from Crittall steel windows to Warners royal silks, Castle Hedingham pottery to Edward Bawden prints.

Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF
Tel: 01206 500900 
A venue that specialises in bringing the best in new and innovative performing arts to the eastern region. Housed in a converted church the programme covers everything from theatre, dance, mime, comedy, children's theatre, jazz & classical.

Castle Park, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1YG
Tel: 01206 282939 
The largest Norman Keep in Europe. Superb Roman displays, hands-on activities and tours. An award winning experience of 2000 years of history. Exciting events all year round. New rolling exhibition programme.

Chalkwell Hall, Chalkwell Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 8NB
Tel: 01702 470700 
METAL provide innovative, multi-disciplinary residency space for artists from the UK and overseas in Southend on Sea at Chalkwell Hall.

Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8SP
Tel: 01279 813237 
Mountfitchet Castle Experience is a multi attraction incorporating Mountfitchet Castle & Norman Village of 1066, House on the Hill Toy Museum and Dinosaur Encounters.

Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1JY
Tel: 01992 707370 
A spectacular 170-acre location for a day of family fun. Special events including Spitfire flypast, award winning Secret History exhibition, tranquil wildlife walks, guided land train tours and rocket science gallery.

Church Hill, Ashdon, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 2HF
Tel: 01799 584253 
Museum of village life through the ages. Domestic & agricultural. Local shops & craftsmen. Fashion & entertainment. Crime and punishment, including the farm labourers strike of 1913.

Bridge Street, Great Bardfield, Braintree, Essex, CM7 4RH
Tel: 01371 810516 
A 19th century lock-up with resident 'Prisoner', clear information and audio. Combine with visit to nearby Cottage Museum.

Cemetery Lodge, Lorne Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 5HH
Tel: 01277 218854 
Small, picturesque, cottage museum, set in disused cemetery, concentrating on local and social interests during the first half of the 20th century, including relics from two world wars.

1 Duke Street, Brightlingsea, Essex, CO7 0EA
Tel: 01206 303286 
A representative collection of objects, photographs and pictures illustrative of the social and economic history of the town and its immediate surroundings over the past 700 years.