Charles Burrell Museum 2025
Discover the history of Charles Burrell Works, view the engines close up. Exhibits include recreated workshops, including boilershop, pattern shop, blacksmith’s and machine shop with exhibits ranging from traction engines to cast iron window frames and cake feed mills.
Open Days & Times
From 5 Apr-mid Oct Tue 1000-1400. Sat closes 1500. Visit website or facebook for more details.
Travel
- By Rail: Thetford / 0.5 miles
Facilities
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
The museum is housed in the, Grade II Listed, former paint shop of Charles Burrell & Sons, builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery, steam lorries and steam tram engines. We help tell the long story of how they were once Thetford’s main employer until the business closed in 1928.
