Heritage Centre Opening Times (Winter 2026) 

• Saturday: open 10 am – 1 pm
• Sunday – Thursday: closed
  

Online shop:
When the Heritage Centre is closed our Online Shop is still working as normal if you want to browse or buy our publications.

Contacting us: How to contact us.

Visiting the Ventnor Heritage Centre: 
Location and information for visitors

New exhibitions and displays for 2026
New displays for 2026 will include a scale model of Ventnor’s iconic Winter Gardens.

Next Monthly Meeting:
Our next Society Meeting will be on Friday 30 January 2026, when we will welcome the new year with a special Local History quiz hosted by Jeffrey Mazo.
Meetings are held in the Yarborough Masonic Hall on Grove Road, 7:30 – 9:00 pm, admission free for VDLHS members, £4 for non-members. 

News:
Click here for our News page with information about Society events, and publications

Ventnor Heritage Newsletter:
If you are interested in the history of our area and would like news of new publications, talks, and events – click here to sign up for our newsletter.

About the Local History Society:
Ventnor & District Local History Society was established in 1980 to record and preserve the history of our area. In 1987 the Society bought 11  Spring Hill and established the Ventnor Heritage Centre,  with space for a museum as well as room to store our collection of photographs, documents and artefacts.   We undertake research, publish books on the local history of our area, and hold popular monthly meetings.  Click here to see more about the Society, or use the menu on the left of the page to find out more about what we do. If you are interested in joining the Society we welcome new members, so please see our Membership information page.
Would you be interested in becoming one of our Volunteers? We welcome anyone interested in joining our team – the Society is entirely run and managed by volunteers, and we need people to welcome visitors to the Museum, and to work on new displays and exhibitions, or help behind the scenes in the office, managing our archive and documenting new donations of documents, photographs and artefacts. You don’t need previous experience of working in a Museum to become one of our volunteers – most of us just joined because we were ‘Ventnorians’ or had moved here and were interested in local history. If you might be interested in becoming one of our volunteers, please get in touch or drop in to the Museum and talk to someone on the desk – we’d be delighted to hear from you.

[The Society is a Registered Charity No 286848]

Donations:

Ventnor and District Local History Society and the Heritage Centre are entirely managed and run by volunteers.  We welcome gifts of objects, photographs and documents of local interest which can be added to our collection (please contact us if you have items to donate).  We are always grateful for financial donations – you can use the Donate button below.

If you are a UK taxpayer you can boost your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate by completing this form Charity Gift Aid Declaration.