The Gem of Emsworth

Welcome To Emsworth Museum

Name: Talk – “Cross-Dressed to Kill”
Start: 2024-11-07T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-07T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Emsworth Museum

Emsworth Museum is dedicated to preserving, recording and telling the story of the town and its locality through the triumphs and tragedies of its people, businesses and organisations.

Opening Times

Open from Easter to October

Saturdays, Bank Hols 10.30 am – 4.30 pm.
Sundays 1.30 pm – 4.30 pm.
Fridays in August 10.30 am – 4.30 pm.
Disabled People Friendly – learn more

Events

In addition to the permanent exhibition in the main hall, Emsworth Museum holds temporary exhibitions in the David Rudkin Room throughout the season (April to October). Talks are organized out of season. Guided walks on the History of Emsworth occur during the summer.

Emsworth fire brigade just before WWII with the Merryweather self-propelled fire engine that replaced the Shand Mason.

Exhibition – Emsworth Fire Brigade

The Museum occupies the offices and council chamber of the Warblington Urban District Council, built in 1900 before the council merged with Havant and Waterlooville. At the time, the council…

Talk – “Lost Ship – Found”

By Dr Ian Friel The talk is about some of the shipwrecks Ian researched as a historian – an English ship from the 1400s, a Dutch vessel from the 1600s,…

Talk – “Cross-Dressed to Kill”

By Vivien Morgan An exploration of women in the 17th to 20th centuries who went to war dressed as men. There were hundreds of known women cross-dressers in Britain, Europe…