Welcome to Rye Castle Museum

Welcome to the Rye Castle Museum website which is also the Rye Local History Information System. Here you can search either under the topics listed to the left or search under specific topics that interest you. When you search under specific topics you will see a list of where that subject occurs under the main headings. You search through those and we hope you will find the information you need. To find out about the Museum, its opening hours, charges, events etc. then go to Introducing the Museum, on the topics to the left. It is on the top left hand corner.

The system is periodically updated with new subjects and when you visit the website or Museum again you will find new information has been added. The Museum volunteers are adding new information throughout the year and if you cannot find the topic you require now, then try again in a few months, or contact us to see if it is one we are due to add at some time in the future.

We very much hope you enjoy using the website to find out about Rye Castle Museum, the local museum of Rye and also about Rye's long and fascinating history. If you would like to contribute to the research or be more involved, then please let us have your name and address.

All these topics have been researched and written by either the Curator, or volunteers who are members of the Museum or were members of the Rye Local History Group, who did research on Rye, before they joined together with the Museum in 2004. Some of this material has appeared in the Rye Local History Group Journal, now the Rye Museum and Local History Group Journal. New articles in this publication will appear as the Journal is produced.

The new website and system was made possible through grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund's "Awards for All", Rother Museum Service and Sussex Enterprise.

If you are using this site within the Museum and are having difficulties, please ask for assistance and we will try and help.

If you wish to contact us: ring 01797-226728, e- mail info@ryemuseum.co.uk or write to

The Curator, Rye Castle Museum, 3, East Street, Rye, East Sussex. TN31 7JY