Location and Building
Guildford Museum is located on Quarry Street, Guildford, almost opposite St Marys Church, the oldest surviving building in the town (c.1000 years old). The first building occupied on the site was Castle Arch (whose foundations incorporate the gatehouse to Guildford Castle), which the Museum moved into in 1898. This building was enlarged in 1911, when an extension was built in the Castle Arch gardens to house the Gertrude Jekyll collection of "Old Surrey Life" artefacts. The Museum was again extended in 1927 when the Borough Council purchased 48 Quarry Street, a 19th-century town house, and offered to convert the building and land adjacent to it into a muniment room for the Archaeological Society's archival collections.
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