Carisbrooke Castle Museum

You will find Carisbrooke Castle Museum within the old governor's residence inside Carisbrooke Castle. The local history displays occupy the great hall, a medieval building which was once the hub of castle life. Carisbrooke Castle is in the care of English Heritage. It offers seven acres of castle and earthworks to explore.

The oldest part you see today is a Norman motte and bailey - a stone shell keep on a mound, and a curtain wall round a courtyard, occupying the site of a former Saxon burh. Other medieval features are the well, with a treadwheel worked by donkeys, and the gatehouse, with its twin drum towers. Objects recovered from excavations in the castle (on loan from English Heritage) are displayed in the museum.