Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre

[3] The museum had exhibits relating to Swanage and Purbeck, including geology, local history, archaeology, maritime and stone quarrying.

[5] The listing entry describes the barn as 18th-century, although the local historian David Lewer attributed it to the 16th-century.

[8] The remnants of the Swanage Pier Tramway commence on the footway adjacent to the old market building.

In 2005 the museum was forced to leave its home in the tithe barn due to deathwatch beetle in the roof which it could not afford to repair, and merged with the Heritage Centre in The Square.

[17] The museum has exhibits on fossils, the fishing industry, Purbeck stone, and a number of Victorian shop fronts.