Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum
he Museum is situated at Castle House, Dedham, which Sir Alfred Munnings bought in 1919. He put up a studio building in the garden and lived and worked here for the rest of his life. He married Violet McBride, a noted horsewoman, in 1920 and after his death in 1959, she decided to devote the house to his memory by establishing a museum to display those pictures which were still in her possession. Castle House was first opened to the public in 1961 and a year later she set up the Violet Munnings Trust Fund, formed for the purpose of financing an art museum. Four years later the Castle House Trust came into existence as a charitable organisation. The ownership of the house, its furnishings and Sir Alfred’s paintings, together with some 40 acres of surrounding land and an endowment fund, were vested in the Trustees…
