Opening hours for
Last entry to museum 3.30pm
Friday – 10am-4pm
Saturday – 10am-4pm
Sunday – 10am-4pm
Monday – 10am-4pm
Pay What You Decide at the front desk on entry.
Our Museum and Poppy Tea Rooms are fully dog friendly. Please keep your dog on a lead at all times.
Major Conservation Works 2025
From February to September 2025 we will be undergoing major conservation work on the Scheduled Monument area of the museum. This means that some areas of the museum will not be accessible to visitors and that we will have a limited events programme this year. However, we do have our new wheelchair accessible exhibition area and a new film created by our volunteer team for visitors to enjoy. Our volunteers will be on hand to talk to visitors and our handling collections are still available. We can arrange guided tours which use off-site spaces such as the location of the Lighthouse Battery to tell the story of the Bombardment of the Hartlepools and the part Hartlepool people played in the Great War.
We understand that limited access will cause inconvenience to visitors, but the work is urgent and essential to prevent further deterioration of the buildings we care for. We do hope you understand and will continue to support the museum and come and visit us.
Poppy Tea Rooms will be open as normal throughout the works, and will be host to some events – so watch this space (and follow us on Facebook if you can) for further updates.
Thank you for your support.
The Heugh Battery Museum tells the story of the Bombardment of the Hartlepools, which took place on Wednesday 16th December 1914, when the guns of the Heugh Battery and neighbouring Lighthouse Battery were engaged in ship-to-shore combat with the German navy.
The site of the Heugh Gun Battery has been a military position since the 17th century. It was restored by volunteers in the early 2000’s and the Heugh Battery Museum now proudly preserves the only First World War battlefield in Britain.
The museum boasts a large and eclectic collection of military artefacts and artillery pieces from throughout history. Our friendly volunteers are on hand to help visitors understand more about the objects on display.
Huge thanks to the Association of Independent Museums who have supported us to gain access to funding from The Pilgrim Trust to undertake a Collections Audit. This work, also supported by the Institute of Conservation, has allowed us to gain access to a fully accredited auditor who has spent time at the museum and produced a report which will be the blueprint for our future work on our collections, their care, storage and display. We are delighted to have been able to have this support and to have taken the first step towards future improvements to the museum.
Open: Friday – Monday from 10am – 4pm
Heugh Battery Museum, Moor Terrace, Headland, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 0PS
info@heughbattery.co.uk
01429 270746
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