The £19m state-of-the-art archive centre located on Ipswich’s Waterfront was officially opened by HRH Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester, in September 2021.
It offers space for visitors to enjoy the county’s historic collections, as well as a café, shop, exhibition gallery, teaching spaces shared with the University of Suffolk.
Suffolk Archives’ collections span 900 years of history, from the oldest document — a Charter of King Henry I granting churches and property to the monks of Eye Priory from around 1119 — to Black Lives Matter protest placards from 2021.
