Mersea Island Museum

Mersea Island Museum Mersea Island Museum on the Essex Coast is a local museum for Mersea Island and the surrounding area. Mersea Museum is a volunteer run local history museum.

We open from May until September each year from 2pm until 5pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. Saturdays July and August we open earlier at 10am. The museum has a shop selling local items, some exclusive to the museum. On Saturdays during the summer we offer history walks starting at the museum on Saturday afternoons 2.30pm. Visits can be arranged to Mersea Barro

w through our website. The Resource Centre and shop are open Saturday mornings through the winter - see website for dates. The quickest way to contact the Museum is by email - [email protected]

30/08/2026

Have you visited Mersea Island Museum yet this weekend? The Mersea Photographic Society has it's summer exhibition on! Open today and tomorrow from 2 - 5pm.
Come and see some incredible photography and look at some of the fascinating artefacts we have in the museum.

Autumn events season at the museum will soon be here! Here's one for the children - or young at heart! See below for det...
26/08/2026

Autumn events season at the museum will soon be here! Here's one for the children - or young at heart! See below for details.

Just a reminder - there are only 2 more history walks left in this summer's series!
26/08/2026

Just a reminder - there are only 2 more history walks left in this summer's series!

Come and see our Vintage clothes and textiles mini exhibition at the Mersea Island museum today - open til 5pm.
09/08/2026

Come and see our Vintage clothes and textiles mini exhibition at the Mersea Island museum today - open til 5pm.

Visit our popular mini pop up exhibition of Vintage clothes and textiles. Tomorrow 10am til 5pm. From Victoriana to the ...
08/08/2026

Visit our popular mini pop up exhibition of Vintage clothes and textiles. Tomorrow 10am til 5pm. From Victoriana to the 70s, babies to adult and a selection of items from the long gone Hadleys womenswear store.

This weekend at Mersea Museum! a mini pop up exhibition of vintage clothes and textiles from the museum's collections. A...
07/08/2026

This weekend at Mersea Museum! a mini pop up exhibition of vintage clothes and textiles from the museum's collections. Always a popular one 😀

Don't miss this! A pop up exhibition of vintage clothes at the Mersea Island Museum!
There will be babies' and children's clothing, women's clothes and accessories, underwear and corsetry, samplers and textiles and other items. Nearly everything was donated by local families and most of the clothing was hand made. 🎩💃👗👙🧵🪡

The museum isn't just about the permanent displays and annual summer exhibition - look what's on in August!
02/08/2026

The museum isn't just about the permanent displays and annual summer exhibition - look what's on in August!

25/07/2026

Come on down!

We're here until 5pm!

Mersea Island Museum

If you haven't popped along yet, do come along to Mersea museum this afternoon and see the fascinating finds from the di...
25/07/2026

If you haven't popped along yet, do come along to Mersea museum this afternoon and see the fascinating finds from the dig at Tudor blockhouse. The archaeologists are here to answer your questions!

Come on down!

We're here until 5pm!

Mersea Island Museum

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High Street
West Mersea
CO58QD

Telephone

01206 385191

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