Visitor Information

In order for you to enjoy your visit fully, the last entry to all our museums is half an hour before the published closing time.

Please see the websites for each of our individual museums for more information on each site: click on the purple icons on the right.

Click here for a complete listing of admission charges for our museums

Click here for details of how to contact our museums and staff

D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery

Clarence Esplanade
Southsea
PO5 3NT

Open daily except 24-26 December and 1 January
April - October 10.00am - 5.30pm
November - March 10.00am - 5.00pm

Portsmouth Visitor Information
Portsmouth's award winning Visitor Information Team is based at the D-Day Museum and is here to help you make the most of your time in the city. Our friendly team will help you plan your visit, with information and lots of suggestions on accommodation, attractions, entertainment and events. As well as discounted tickets for attractions we also sell tickets for local events and entertainment including no fee bookings for the Kings Theatre in Southsea, the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth and the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. We are also agents for Lucketts coach trips and holidays. Coach and theatre bookings must be made in person. For more information, click here to go to the Visit Portsmouth website.

City Museum

Museum Road
Portsmouth
PO1 2LJ

April - October 10.00am - 5.30pm
November - March 10.00am - 5.00pm
Open Tuesday-Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. Please note the City Museum is closed on Mondays.
Closed 24-26 December and 1 January.

Please note that the Searchroom is now in the Portsmouth History Centre on the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library. Click here for opening times.

We will advertise (on our website www.portsmouthmuseums.co.uk  and elsewhere) the resources and archives as they become accessible in Portsmouth History Centre. Archives not moved to the Central Library will be available by prior arrangement.

Charles Dickens Birthplace

393 Old Commercial Road
Portsmouth
PO1 4QL

2013 opening hours: Open daily 29 March - September, 10.00am - 5.30pm, Tuesday - Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. Closed on Mondays (except for Bank Holidays).

Southsea Castle

Clarence Esplanade
Southsea
PO5 3PA

2013 opening hours: Open March - November, 10.00am - 5.00pm, Tuesday - Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays. Closed on Mondays (except for Bank Holidays).

Natural History Museum at Cumberland House

Please note that from Monday 28 January to early June 2013, the Natural History Museum will be closed to the public during building work while we make improvements to the entrance and part of the ground floor. Please click here for more details.

Cumberland House
Eastern Parade
Southsea
PO4 9RF

April - October 10.00am - 5.30pm
November - March 10.00am - 5.00pm
Open Tuesday-Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. Closed on Mondays.
Closed 24 - 26 December.

Visiting Portsmouth

To find out more about all there is to see and do in the city of Portsmouth, including accommodation, see the Visit Portsmouth website.