The London Shipwreck: After Hours

Discover the amazing artefacts salvaged from the London shipwreck in our newest exhibition, after hours at Southend Central Museum.

Join us from 6pm at Southend Central Museum on 17 July, as part of our 'museum lates' event series to uncover the secrets salvaged from Southend's most mysterious wreck in 'The London Shipwreck: Her Final Voyage', with curator Jools McCusker Maxwell.

This new exhibition focuses on the last voyage that objects from the London shipwreck undertook before reaching Southend Museums: their conservation and preservation. New conservation and scientific analyses conducted on these objects over the course of several years has revealed fascinating information, and many of the objects in this exhibition have never before been seen by the public. The star of the show is a rare timber gun carriage that would have held one of the cannons on the 17th century warship, one of the very few of its kind…