Sutton Hoo National Trust
About Sutton Hoo National Trust
Our transformed new experiences in the High Hall and Tranmer House are now open, together with the estate, walks, Royal Burial Ground, shop and café.
Sutton Hoo National Trust Description
Walk around the ancient burial mounds and discover the incredible story of the ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king and his treasured possessions.
Come face to face with your ancestors and explore our award-winning exhibition, the full-size reconstruction of the burial chamber, stunning replica treasures and original finds from one of the mounds, including a prince's sword.
Look inside the Edwardian house or enjoy the beautiful seasonal colours on our estate walks.
Don't miss
* New burial chamber experience! Sights, sounds and smells of AD625
* Enjoy the beautiful period interiors of Edith Pretty's country home
* Take a guided tour of the royal burial mounds
* Explore beautiful woodland and heathland walks with fine estuary views
* Meet a 1930s archaeologist and help them unearth the past
* Stay for longer in one of our Edwardian holiday flats
Reviews
As the transformation of Sutton Hoo gets underway, did you know you can keep up to date with everything that's going on via our project timeline, found on our website - such as last week's cataloguing in Tranmer House: https://bit.ly/2vAWgM8
The sun goes down over the river Deben, seen through the big living room windows of Tranmer House ☀️
Become an Anglo-Saxon warrior this half-term as part of the Sutton Hoo Roadshow!
Join us at local libraries for crafts such as shield-making with the chance to see and handle our replica treasures like the famous helmet too. Find all the details on the Suffolk Libraries website: https://bit.ly/2yJfZdb
Image: Jane Osman
Calling all teachers!
Sutton Hoo may be closed for school visits, but our local outreach programme is still going strong. If you're local, we would love to come visit and show off our beautiful replica Anglo-Saxon treasures or maybe help with a project of your own.
You can find all the details, including contact information on our website here: https://bit.ly/2PBBtzN
The parasol mushrooms have had a wonderful year so far at Sutton Hoo, dotted all about our woodlands and pathways.
We've been to Stoke Library yesterday with our Sutton Hoo Roadshow and off to many more over the coming months, including Bury Library on 20 October. History, books and treasure all in one - it's a match made in heaven! Image: Hollie Griss
The serene calm of evening at Sutton Hoo 🌙
With Sutton Hoo closed and everything in the Hall needing conservation work before storage, seating for our film recently became the perfect waiting room for all the objects. Even here we make sure to keep them on plastic or acid-free to prevent damage.
We have had nearly all the seasons in one today at Sutton Hoo! From a bit of a dark, misty winter morning turning to a blue skies and sunshine summer day, before settling into a calm and chilly autumn evening ☀️
The work has begun and we're well under way in the Hall at Sutton Hoo. Here's a (fairly easy) game of spot the differences with the first photo taken Sunday on our last day of opening and the second taken today. We're taking everything out for cleaning and conservation before the exciting new changes can come in!
And we're off! Day one of our Roadshow and day one at Felixstowe East of England Co-op. We're there until Thursday 4 October, so if you're in the area, why not pop down and say hello?
Have you seen our October schedule for the Sutton Hoo Roadshow yet? From tomorrow we'll be touring the county with our amazing volunteers and stunning replicas, starting with Felixstowe East of England Co-op > https://bit.ly/2Nc1cBR
And that's a wrap! We've had a wonderful day, with thanks to Dr Hoggett for our last Historia talk. Thank you to all our visitors and supporters from everyone here at Sutton Hoo on our last day of opening for 2018! We hope to see you all on our roadshow.
Sutton Hoo is going on tour! As we close to begin major transformation works, we're off across Suffolk on a roadshow with our beautiful replicas and wonderful volunteers. Keep up to date with when and where we'll be on our website: https://bit.ly/2Nc1cBR
We came yesterday and had lots of fun, lovely well kept premises. We were served by a lovely lady Isabel as well. We will be back.
Love the walks at Sutton Hoo, great atmosphere and yummy lunches and teas.
Really delicious honey from the bees we’ve been seeing during the summer.
I bought the family here yesterday, we spent the whole day. Fantastic. Something for everyone. We did the guided tour with Jonathan, what a lovely man and he gave a great tour. Dave the money guy was incredible, great stories. My kids were entranced. Highly recommended!!
Great, informative with good exhibitions bits.
Amazing & so atmospheric. The staff are so passionate about this wonderful place.
A wonderful place! The landscape can "tell you" his story. The visitor centre and the volunteers are unic!
Lovely walks, an restaurant, the staff there are really friendly, had a very enjoyable time.
We had a lovely afternoon here - exhibition and film very good. Blue walk was very enjoyable but could do with a few more seats for those of us who have difficultly with walking too far without a break.