Malvern Museum Gatehouse north side
Museums, Museums & Heritage

Malvern Museum

Opening times 2025
Malvern Museum will be open daily from Saturday 5 April 2025 until further notice. The museum will be open from 10am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.

Malvern Museum attractions
Housed in the medieval monastic gatehouse, the museum is small but filled with answers to all you might want to ask about Malvern’s history. Starting from the creation of the hills themselves and moving through rocks and fossils, visitors can then get a glimpse into prehistoric life on the hill forts. Medieval Malvern, with its beautiful priory church and black monks, can be contemplated alongside the harsh Forest laws before moving into the healthier times of Malvern’s Water Cure. Wealthy Victorian visitors and hard-working local families ultimately created the town as it is today. Trips back into times of real conflict with two world wars go hand in hand with encounters with Edward Elgar and Bernard Shaw, while a touchscreen provides opportunities to see the engineering potential of England’s first petrol driven car and the development of the iconic Morgan motor car. Radar scientists arrived in Malvern in 1942 and their contribution to the war effort and new inventions can also be explored. Families will encounter lifelike mannequins and be challenged by different interactives.

A number of bold changes have taken place in the downstairs area, with a wonderful new Hills profile filling the top section of three walls, created by well-known local artist Ivan Maxwell Jones. The entrance area has been refurbished too, with beautiful oak furnishings and a new sales area. Visitors can spoil themselves with bottles of local water, select colourful coasters from a new range and treat a family member to a newly designed tea towel as well as browse a wide selection of local history books at knock-down prices. New displays feature the role of the Women’s Land Army girls, local 19th century turnpikes and toll gates, and a selection of recently donated artefacts.

Admission prices
£2.50 per adult, 50p per child (children admitted free at weekend)

Facilities

Wi-Fi
Shop
Guided Tours Available
Group Visits Available
Disabled Access
Children Welcome
Accessible by Public Transport