Artist, author and also presenter of 

Anglia TV's 'King and Country' programmes.

Surveys and Maps of Wisbech Exhibition

Manea Art Group Exhibition

4 April - 25 April, 10am - 4pm

Free Admission

Art exhibition by the students of The College of West Anglia

Sail, Sea & Sky

Trading Stories. A Century of Fenland Shops, Crafts and Trade.

Exhibition now on

8 Nov - 5 Feb 2015

Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm
Admission Free

'Gateways' a contemporary lace exhibition starting 6 September.

Exhibitions now on at the Museum

Museum Library Exhibition



History Rising Bake - A - Cake competition

Calling all cake makers and sugar crafters!

Be inspired by the amazing displays and objects at 

Wisbech & Fenland Museum and make a cake.

History Rising is an art project by Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman. Marjolijn will be installing specially made sculptures in the Hudson Room at Wisbech & Fenland Museum from 1 November to 5 January 2014.

For further details download our guideline sheet.

To enter, fill in the Bake-A-Cake entry form, which can be downloaded here.

Wisbech Camera Club Exhibition



'Wisbech: A Century of Memories'. Last few days to view.

Now ending on Saturday 27 April.

Great Expectations Exhibition

This is the last few days to visit our Great Expectations exhibition ' So I called myself Pip...' and to wonder at the magnificent display of Miss Havisham's wedding feast by local artist Fred White. Also on display is the original manuscript of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

"one of the iconic images of English literature"
Miriam Margolyes

The Collection - An Introduction. Walking through the entrance to the museum you enter into a treasure house of curiosities and wonderment....

Christmas and New Year Closing

We will be closed from the 

23 December until 21 January 2013 inclusive.

All the Staff, Trustees, Friends and Volunteers

would like to wish you a

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Museum Library Exhibition

Atelier East Summer Exhibition & Holiday Drop in Workshop

The artwork of Suzanne Woolcott presented by Atelier East

Visit the Gorjuss website HERE

Visit the Atelier East website HERE for further details.

Current Library Exhibition: Embroidery Samplers from the 18th& 19th Centuries

On Saturday 5 May 2012 Wisbech & Fenland Museum will be holding a temporary display of 18^th and 19^th century embroidery samplers from the museum’s collection. The free display will be held in the library and will be open from 11am till 3pm. This display will be a chance to see examples of embroidery that are usually not on public display, and haven’t been so for a number of years.

Included will be pieces worked on by local school girls, such as: Hannah Tuck and Ann Falter from Upwell and Sarah Elizabeth Coulson from Rings End. Also on display is an impressive mourning sampler from 1864 by Elizabeth Booth, this sampler is a memorial for several of her family members. Some of the samplers are especially detailed and eye-catching, including one by Ann Mackman dating from 1825 which includes several embroidered images, including a house, animals and flowers.

The museum would also like to ask members of the public who visit the display if they have any information on the embroiderers whose work is featured, as the history of those who once lived in Wisbech and its surrounding areas is of great interest.

This display on embroidery samplers also coincides with an interesting exhibition of modern textile art by the Fen Edge Embroidery group held in the museum’s Hudson room, allowing visitors to see how this art form has evolved over the past three hundred years.

The exhibition can be viewed at other times by prior appointment.

The exhibition has been curated by Sophie Woods from Terrington St. Clements, who is studying Fashion and Dress History at the University of Brighton.

Hastings' Wisbech: views of Wisbech in the 1960s

The Museum's current exhibition, which runs until the 30th March, showcases the drawings of Geoff  Hastings which are based on his photographic survey of Wisbech in the 1960s. Many of the buildings featured have seen drastic changes or are simply no longer there.

Cabinet of Curiosities

Can you identify this object?

Is it
A - Sugar Tongs?
B- Decorative Bull Leader?
C- Skirt Lifter?

Used in the 19th century.

Exhibition in the Hudson Room
A collection of the weird and wonderful not usually on display.

Tuesday to Saturday
10am - 4pm. Last admissions 3.45pm

Open until 20th December 2008.

FREE ADMISSION

More Curiosities!

Library Exhibition

Saturday 6th December 2008

11am - 3pm

FREE ADMISSION

Come and see our killer whale!