Elizabethan House Museum
| Elizabethan House Museum | |
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National Trust | |
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| Grid reference: | TG523073 |
| Location: | 52°36’17"N, 1°43’29"E |
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| Website: | Elizabethan House Museum |
The Elizabethan House Museum stands on the South Quay in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, on the bank of the tidal River Yare, which here divides Yarmouth from Gorleston in Suffolk.
The building is a 16th-century quayside merchant's house, and now belongs to the National Trust. The museum contained in it is a delightful treasury of 16th-century domestic history.
A local legend has it that the death of Charles I was plotted in a room known as the Conspiracy Room.
The museum
The Elizabethan House Museum is managed not by the Trust but by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service. It reflects the life and times of the families who lived here from Tudor to Victorian times.
The Museum holds a large and extensive collection throughout the rooms of the house. It is a "hands-on" museum; from trying on costumes to over 300 coins and furniture dating back to the early 1500s there is plenty to see.
Special event days are held throughout the year and National Trust volunteers are on hand during those days as guides around the museum.
Garden
Behind the house is a small but delightful walled garden, recently remodelled and tended National Trust volunteers.