Prices are adult admission from the gazetteer survey; opening times change by season, so check each museum page before travelling. County from the museum's postcode.
Every museum in Norfolk
| Museum | Adult entry | Airframes | Headline exhibit |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Norwich Aviation MuseumNorwich, Norfolk | £9 | 33 | City of Norwich Aviation Museum at Horsham St Faith: Norfolk's largest, ~30 airframes including a Vulcan and Nimrod with bookable… |
| RAF Coltishall Heritage CentreNorwich, Norfolk | Free | 5 | RAF Coltishall's guardroom museum, curated by veterans of the base — the Jaguar force's spiritual home, free to enter on open days, with… |
| RAF Air Defence Radar MuseumNorwich, Norfolk | £14 | 3 | The original 1942 Ground Controlled Interception room and its Cold War successor: Britain's actual air-defence nervous system, in situ,… |
| Hardwick Airfield MuseumBungay, Norfolk | Free | 2 | Hardwick Airfield Museum — home of the 93rd BG 'Ted's Travelling Circus', the Eighth’s longest-serving Liberator group — a hangar of… |
| RAF Sculthorpe Heritage CentreFakenham, Norfolk | £2.50 | 2 | Sculthorpe: North Norfolk's atomic secret — 10,000 Americans and nuclear-alert B-45s in the 1950s — remembered in a heritage centre with… |
| Langham DomeHolt, Norfolk | £7 | 1 | Langham Dome is a one-building wonder: a 1942 concrete gunnery-training dome where projected aircraft taught AA gunners to shoot —… |
| 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Thorpe AbbottsDiss, Norfolk | Free | — | The tower itself. Climb to the glasshouse, look down the ghost of the main runway, and the entire Eighth Air Force story reorganises… |
| 96th Bomb Group MuseumNorwich, Norfolk | Free | — | The 96th BG museum at Snetterton Heath — small, precise, and full of details found nowhere else (captured B-17s shadowing the bomber… |
| RAF Bircham Newton Heritage CentreKings Lynn, Norfolk | Donation | — | Bircham Newton's heritage centre inside the construction college keeps the Coastal Command station's WWI-to-postwar story; the chairman's… |
| Seething Control Tower MuseumNorwich, Norfolk | Free | — | Seething tower (448th BG) — beautifully kept, free, with folders of first-person accounts that eat hours. |
| The 453rd Bombardment Group MuseumAttleborough, Norfolk | Free | — | Old Buckenham's 453rd BG museum: modest, moving, and forever associated with its operations officer, one Major James Stewart of Hollywood. |
Norfolk and its aviation
Most of the eleven are small volunteer museums in towers and huts, and seven are free. The aircraft are concentrated around Norwich. The City of Norwich Aviation Museum holds 33, including Vulcan B.2 XM612 and Nimrod MR.2 XV255. The Coltishall Heritage Centre keeps Jaguar GR.1 XZ384 and a Lightning T.5 cockpit. Neatishead preserves its Cold War radar operations rooms.
- The City of Norwich Aviation Museum, RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre and the Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead are all within 9 miles of each other.
- In south Norfolk, Hardwick is 4 miles from Seething and 7 miles from Thorpe Abbotts; the 453rd and 96th Bomb Group museums are 4 miles apart.
- The small museums open on set days: Seething on the first Sunday of the month, May–October; Hardwick on the third Sunday; Sculthorpe on the first Sunday.
- In the north-west, RAF Sculthorpe and RAF Bircham Newton are 4 miles apart. Langham Dome is seasonal and 11 miles from Sculthorpe.
Aircraft you can only see in Norfolk
Frequently asked
What is the biggest aviation museum in Norfolk?
By airframes, the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, with 33 in the gazetteer inventory, including Vulcan B.2 XM612. Adult entry is listed at £9.
Are there free aviation museums in Norfolk?
Yes, seven: the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, the 453rd and 96th Bomb Group museums, Seething Control Tower, Hardwick Airfield, RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre and RAF Bircham Newton, which asks for a donation.
Where can I see a Vulcan in Norfolk?
At the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, which holds Vulcan B.2 XM612. It also has a Nimrod, a Lightning and a Harrier.