Temporary Closing of the Museum
No doubt many visitors will be aware of the distressing state of some parts of the ceiling in the Martello Tower on Seaford Seafront. Time and seawater have not been kind to the steel reinforced concrete that was used to cover half the moat in the 1930s.
It has now been confirmed that Seaford Town Council will require access for their contractors into the Martello Tower Museum for approximately four weeks. The contractors will remove all the loose material from the ceilings in order to make them safe from falling debris.
To allow the contractors access to the areas where work needs to be carried out, Museum volunteers will be removing and safely storing the many displays, artefacts and records that we have assembled over the years, and we expect this mammoth task to take about two weeks. And then, once the ceiling work has been completed, we will need to put it all back again! Naturally, we will take the opportunity to redecorate and improve as much of the Museum as we can.
With great regret, we expect to have to close Seaford Museum in the Martello Tower to visitors from the end of the afternoon session on Wednesday 12th November 2025 and expect to reopen, refreshed and renewed, early in the New Year.
We would like to thank our many Museum Members, visitors and supporters for visiting the Museum over the past few years and look forward to welcoming you back to our grand reopening in 2026.

This will not affect the talks, held as usual, in the Little Theatre.

The Trustees
Seaford Museum & Heritage Society