Rye Castle Museum

Explore the story of Rye's long and illustrious history. Part of the museum is housed in a stone tower built as a fortification in 1249. The museum's collection of ironwork, medieval pots and smuggling items are on display here, while the East Street site contains the rest of the collection, including pottery, fashions, an 18th-century fire engine, toys, cinque port regalia, a special exhibition on the town between the wars, descriptions of the changes to the harbour and shipbuilding here and businesses and leisure in Rye during the 19th and 20th centuries.