Planning your visit
News
We are excited to be bringing an ambitious project to Suffolk, which will transform the way we engage with archives.
Set to open in Spring 2020, “The Hold: a Suffolk Archive service for the 21st Century” will create a new, flagship heritage facility, to care for and showcase our county’s records and collections. It will bring locally and nationally significant exhibitions to all Suffolk Archives branches, state of the art research facilities and more access than ever before to digital collections.
The countywide activity plan which comes hand in hand with The Hold building, enables us to deliver many more archive related events, learning activities and digital programmes across Suffolk, meaning more people can truly connect with Suffolk’s unique and fascinating history than ever before.
As part of the transformation, building refurbishments will be taking place. Details of when and where work is being carried out to transform the Suffolk Archives service can be found here.
Welcome to our Planning Your Visit pages.
These pages provide help on how to:
- register as a user
- find address and contact details for each branch: Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft
- holiday opening hours
- find helpful tips and suggestions for your visit
- find out which branch you will need
- use our catalogues and indexes in branch
- order documents to look at when visiting one of our branches
- order copies of archives
Help on how to use the website itself and the online catalogue can be found on our Using Suffolk Archives website pages.
We encourage all our online users to become Readers at Suffolk Archives – please register even if you are not intending on coming into a branch: your Reader account is useful for managing your wishlist collection, and requesting copies and digital downloads.