Hastings Fishermen's Museum — Attraction in Hastings

Part of a group of attractions in Old Hastings, the Fisherman's Museum is dedicated to the fisherman of Hastings, depicting their life across the centuries. Outside the museum is a collection of fishing boats, a fisherman's cottage - made out of a boat cut in half - along with the reconstructed net huts used to dry the fishing nets.

Situated near to where the modern day beach fishing fleet is launched, the museum is free to enter - although donations are welcome. Around the boat inside is accessible for visitors in wheelchairs, along with a wing added with models of ships and details about fishing.

The centrepiece of the museum is a fishing boat named The Enterprise, with steps up onto the deck and viewing panels to see inside the fishing boat. This is not accessible for wheelchair users, and children must be accompanied by an adult.

Although others have posted videos from inside the museum on Google Maps, there is a not on one of the walls stating that only personal photographs are permitted.

Outside though, there is plenty of opportunities to video the fishing boats, shack and huts.

There is a small gift shop inside the museum, but for refreshments there is a café beside the Hastings Aquarium and others in the area.

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We visited this free to enter museum in Hastings in an old converted chapel. It's a historical journey of the local fishing community and their history and sad losses. It explains a lot, loads of old photographs of people and boats and is a time capsule that is worth a visit, it's free and reliant on donations so chuck a crispy fiver in the font to keep this place alive for future generations to understand the what, the how and why. Your fish cakes have to come from somewhere not just the supermarket !!! It's the dedication of those brave fisherman who risk all for reward in some atrocious conditions to get that cod on his lordship plate. Pay up people it needs it

5 star just for education of those visiting who live so far from the...

This is a special trove of absolutely wonderful treasures. We could not love it more and it is always high on our list of things to do in Hastings. It's a really heartfelt collection of all things fisherman. It really made me stop and think - as a Londoner and buying a lot of my food from a supermarket - I didn't really stop to think about the men doing all that work to get my fish to me. It's really humbling and made me really want to support our fisherman - buying responsibly souced seasonal fish from our own coasts. The boat in the middle makes me sea sick even though it's stationary!! My daughter loves to look at everything and there is something everywhere that you look. If you've not been, please go and support this...