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Opening Times and Locations

Kingston Museum

Wheatfield Way
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2PS
United Kingdom.

Tel: + 44 (0)208 547 6460.

Open: Daily 10 am to 5pm except Wednesday and Sundays.

Please note that the Museum closes on most Bank Holidays, between Christmas and New Year and from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
The Museum is, however, open on the first Bank Holiday in May for Kingston's May Merrie event.

A map to Kingston Museum can be found on the streetmap website (see Related External Links) on entering the site, type the postcode KT1 2PS in the search box.

Kingston Local History Room & Archives Service

Room 46
North Kingston Centre
Richmond Road,
Kingston upon Thames
KT2 5PE
United Kingdom  

Tel: +44 (0)208 547 6738.  

Open: Monday, Thursday and Friday 10am to 1pm and 2 to 5pm. Tuesday 10 am to 1pm and 2 to 7pm (9pm during adult eduaction term time).
Closed every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, between Christmas and New Year and from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
The Room is generally closed for two weeks in the summer for stocktaking.

For specific dates.please see the Archives and Local History service page.

A Map to Kingston Local History Room and Arc

hives can be found on the streetmap website (see related external links) on entering the site, type the post code KT2 5PE in the search box

Access Information

Museum

• Admission: £1 for adults; free admission for young people 16 years of age and under, members of the Friends of Kingston Museum & Heritage Service and members of the National Art Collections Fund.  
• Bell at front entrance for wheelchair users
• Parking at rear of building for disabled people by prior arrangement (020 8547 6460).
• Alternative access for wheelchair users from rear car park.  Door bell.
• Level access into building
• Four steps to Muybridge Gallery.  Level access through Kingston Library by prior arrangement
• First floor accessible by lift
• Induction loop in the first floor art gallery
• Wheelchair accessible toilet on the ground floor

North Kingston Centre: Local History Room

• Free admission
• Level access to building
• Parking
• Wheelchair accesible toilet on ground floor
• Local History Room situated on the first floor
• Key assisted lift to first floor available by prior arrangement

More access information for both sites can be obtained from the Disabled Go website.

For additional information published by the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames follow the link to disabilty equality and access below.

Contact Us

• Museum Reception:
     020 8547 6460
• Local History Room:
     020 8547 6738
• Archives Service:
     020 8547 6735
• Peta Louise Cook, Curator
     +44 (0)20 8547 6462
• Jill Lamb, Archivist and Local Studies Manager
     +44 (0)20 8547 6735
• Museum Learning and Access Officer, currently vacant
     +44 (0)20 8547 6754
• Sandra Murphy, Heritage Assistant (retail),
     +44 (0)20 8547 6465
• Caroline Cornish, Heritage Assistant (display)
     +44 (0)20 8547 6463
• Rod Lewis, Heritage Assistant (caretaking)
     +44 (0)20 8547 6460
• May Cheyne, Heritage Assistant (admin)
     +44 (0)20 8547 6755
• Emma Rummins, Local History Officer
     +44 (0)20 8547 6738
• Amirah Rahman, Saturday Heritage Assistant
•    +44 (0)20 8547 6460 (Saturdays only)

Email the Museum: kingston.museum@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Email the Local History Room: local.history@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

Fax: +44 (0)20 8547 6747