Welcome to The Surfing Museum - the home of British surfing history.

We're documenting our rich and diverse surf culture and its heritage, capturing the soul of British surfing.

We founded Europe's first surfing museum in 2003, and are the only full time body researching UK surf history.

We're a not for profit organisation currently applying to become a charity.

Our British Surfing Museum has the most extensive and historically significant collection of vintage surfboards, literature and memorabilia on public display and for academic research in Britain.

Most importantly it’s a museum being built by you, the British surfer.

The Surfing Museum's latest exhibition 'an art history of British surfing history', is at the Red House Museum at Christchurch, Dorset, from May 3rd to June 14th 2008.

We're still looking for a new permanent home for the British Surfing Museum collection, but hope to have some news in the near future.

Gabe Davies is now our Patron as we complete our plans to open full-time.

Also, don't forget to check out the great new range of surfing gifts in our online shop.  

For more surfing museum news and details of our exhibitions - enter here

Britain’s links with surfing date back hundreds of years to the time when Captain James Cook first stumbled across our beautiful pastime in Tahiti and Hawaii in the 18th Century. People have been riding waves for fun here in the British Isles for more than a century.

Here you’ll find a brief history, and images of a small part of our collection of classic surfboards and surfing memorabilia. The pages are constantly updated as new information is uncovered.

Who was Britain's first surfer? Was it the Hawaiian princess who lived in England in 1892 - or did Cook's sailors ride the waves on surfboards a century earlier?

The Surfing Museum - documenting life now, and the long and winding path that led us all to the waves.

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You can now buy surfing museum stickers featuring our new logo and a great range of surf books in our online shop.

We have the perfect range of gifts for the surfer in your life, or just treat yourself!

Plus we've got an exclusive selection of awesome prints from the lens of surf photography pioneer Tom Blake for sale.

For orders outside the UK, or if you have any queries or special requests - please email the shop.

All proceeds go to The Surfing Museum, so a huge thanks for your ongoing support. Without it none of this would be possible.

Enter The Surfing Museum shop here.