Following a successful Heritage Lottery Fund award, the Great Bed of Ware returned to the town in April 2012. It was in Ware Museum for a year on loan from The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and returned there on 7th April 2013.

When the bed came to Ware, the bedhead and tester were so fragile they had to be lowered while in their packaging, into the museum via part of the roof, using a large crane parked in the Priory car park.