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Museum closure

The Museum is now closed for redevelopment until September 2010.

The Museum has been awarded a grant of £1.53 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund in order to create spaces to display and interpret more of the Museum treasures.

The new galleries will more clearly explore the legacy of the Order of St John (or the Hospitallers), a religious order founded in Jerusalem in 1099, where they established a hospital to care for the sick pilgrims.

The duty of care has informed the work of the order ever since and continues to present day in the first aid role of St John Ambulance.

The new Museum will bring this incredible story to life.

What's at the Museum

Please note that the following services are currently unavailable. All services will resume in September 2010.

• Take a tour of the historic buildings including the Norman crypt of the Priory church;

  It’s a gem…tucked away. It was the stories, it was the collection…it’s just a gem.

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• Visit our galleries covering the Order of St John's history over 900 years and St John Ambulance's since it's founding in the 1870s;