Godalming Museum has around 25,000 items in its collections representing over a century of collecting by local people. About 8,000 of these are objects; 9,000 are archive materials (records used in running a business, organisation or household); 6,000 are photographs; and another 2,000 are books and periodicals in the Museum's Library & Archive. Together, these items form a record of the Godalming area spanning 115 million years - from fossilised creatures which swam in what was then sea, through earliest dated evidence of human activity 50,000 years ago, to objects and records from more recent centuries. Many people have donated a wide variety of material helping to create a unique record of the area and making Godalming Museum's collections an important and special resource.