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If you are looking for fun, low cost activities for all Do something the family to enjoy this summer, look no further different for your 1 than Suffolk museums! Throughout the school holidays this year. 2 Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum summer holidays, museums across the county Join in the fun and 3 Museum will offer a jam-packed line-up of exciting events, discover together, 4 The Long Shop Museum activities and trails to suit all ages and interests. look further and 5 The Red House be inspired by 6 Orford Museum This leaflet is your handy guide to what’s happening something new 7 Museum in museums across the county. To help with this summer in 8 HMS Ganges Museum planning, we’ve listed the museums by location, Suffolk museums. 9 Bentwaters Cold War Museum shown below on our handy museums map. The events are also in date order so you can see at a 10 The Tide Mill Living Museum glance what’s happening, and when, in your Handy Tip 11 Museum Opening Times neighbourhood. Double check museum For more event information visit opening times before 12 you visit as times can 13 suffolkmuseums.org or like us on Facebook at vary. /summerinsuffolkmuseums. 14 Ipswich Art School Gallery 15

Norwich Great Waveney Yarmouth 16 Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum 17 Museum 18 East Anglia Transport Museum 19 19 Lowestoft Museum 18 20 Beccles 17 20 Lowestoft Maritime Museum 16 21 Museum Lakenheath Thetford

Diss Mid and 23 Fressingfield 21 1 22 The National Horseracing Museum Mildenhall Rickinghall Halesworth Eye 24 2 Southwold 23 Mildenhall Museum Ixworth Laxfield West Stow 24 West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village 28 3 Dunwich 25 Moyse’s Hall 22 Newmarket Thurston 27 25 Bury St Debenham 26 Museum of East Anglian Life Edmunds Woolpit 11 4 Saxmundham Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum 26 27 Woodbridge 10 28 Laxfield Museum 5 Wickham Lavenham Little Hall Museum Market 29 9 30 Gainsborough’s House 31 Clare 6 Haverhill Long 29 Lavenham Orford Clare Ancient House Museum 13 Martlesham 31 Melford 12 Hadleigh 14 30 Sudbury 15 Handy Tip Ipswich Felixstowe Museum Facilities East Bergholt 8 7 For more information on individual museum facilities, such as parking or Manningtree Harwich refreshments, visit the museums’ website Colchester by using our handy list on pages 19-20. Braintree Suffolk Coastal Special Events ______Wed 27 Jul and Wed 10 Aug 1 –4pm Thu 4, 11, 18 and 25 Aug 11.30am –4.30pm WORKSHOP WEDNESDAYS FAmILY DISCOvERY DAYS The Long Shop Museum Dunwich Museum Bring your budding scientists to Step into mystical Medieval Dunwich! Join Sister Luke’s Workshop Wednesdays and explore fascinating village tour or make your own scroll at the Quill the amazing world of light, sound and Seal workshops. Plus, enjoy wonderful handling and forces with awesome collections every Thursday! experiments and activities. SISTER LukE’S TOuR 4 Aug (2.30pm) LuMINOuS LIGHT AND SupER ‘QuILL AND SEAL’ WORkSHOp 4 Aug SOuND 27 Jul (11.30am – 2.30pm), 11 and 25 Aug (All day) FANTASTIC FORCES 10 Aug MEDIEVAL ACTIVITIES 18 Aug (All day) Free with normal admission, All-ages, Free, All ages, Drop-in Drop-in ______Sun 7, 21, 28 and Mon 29 Aug 10 –4pm Thu 28 Jul 11.30am-4.30pm (Dig 2.30pm) ALIEN HuNT DIG DuNWICH! Bentwaters Cold War Museum Dunwich Museum Find out more about the infamous 1980 Forest Explore how archaeologists unearth the past and discover real UFO incident and discover the museum’s very own little green finds in the new excavation trenches! Plus, amazing handling men to win a free Alien sticker! collections available all day. Children go free, Ages 4-10, Drop-in £2 suggested donation, Ages 5+, ______pre-book dig on 01728 648796 or email Wed 10 Aug 12 –4pm [email protected] FuN AT THE SEASIDE! ______Felixstowe Museum Wed 3, 17, 24 and 31 Aug 12-4pm Join in with a special holiday treat BY ROYAL APPOINTmENT for children and create fairy tale Felixstowe Museum puppet shows, get up close to starfish on the ‘Seaside Touch Celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday Table’, play giant outdoor games or go on a Teddy Bears picnic! with some ‘right royal’ summer Children £6.50. Adults £2.00, Ages 2-16, Drop-in holiday events for children! Enjoy ______fun royal quizzes, make your own Sun 28 Aug 10–4pm crown and get knighted by the mARvELLOuS mAKERS FAIR museum’s Landguard Queen! The Long Shop Museum Children £3, Adults £2, Join the Long Shop Museum for the Marvellous Makers Fair Ages 2-16, Drop-in and celebrate everything ‘Made in Suffolk’ with local artists, traders, and craftsmen. Plus, special creative workshops and fun craft activities for all ages! Free with normal admission, All ages, See longshopmuseum.co.uk for more details

4 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 5 Suffolk Coastal Always Available During museum Opening Hours ______SummER TRAILS AT THE LONG SHOP WALKING INTO HISTORY muSEum Orford Museum The Long Shop Museum Discover Orford’s and the surrounding villages’ exciting Explore the museum and its wonderful collections with a new military past and amazing churches with three self-guided family trail every fortnight! exploration trails! 50p with normal admission, Ages 4+, Drop-in Free, All ages, print the trails at orfordmuseum.org.uk ______PICNICS AT THE RED HOuSE SEA SHELL SEARCH! The Red House, Aldeburgh Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Bring your own picnic and spend the afternoon enjoying the Give it some ‘heave ho’ and explore the museum to find the Red House’s beautiful gardens and outdoor games! secret shells before claiming the booty! Free, All ages, Drop-in Free, Ages 4-7, Drop-in ______SAxmuNDHAm SummER TRAILS LANDLuBBERS TRAIL Saxmundham Museum Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Explore the museum and medieval market town of Ahoy, matey! Don’t let the quiz scupper you! Explore the Saxmundham with family quizzes and trails! museum to complete the trail and claim the booty! Trail £1, Ages 7-12, Drop-in Free, Ages 8+, Drop-in ______GINGERBREAD BISCuIT TRAIL SummER TRAILS The Tide Mill Living Museum HMS Ganges (In partnership with the Cake Shop) Explore the HMS Ganges Museum and try out their Summer See the sites of Woodbridge and solve the clues to claim your Trail. Gingerbread Prize! Pick up a trail from the Tide Mill Living Free, Ages 7+, Drop-in Museum or The Cake Shop. Trail sheet £1 (optional admission to the museum at normal price), Ages 5+, Drop-in ______ERIC THE ExPLORER! Southwold Museum Can you find the pictures of Eric hidden in Southwold’s unique cottage museum? Try the trail and find out! Free, Ages 7-11, Drop-in

Handy Tip Donations Many family activities (and museums) are free but donations are always very welcome and much appreciated!

6 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 7 Ipswich Special Events ______

Thur 28 Jul 10.30 –11.30am, 1 –2pm and Thur 11 Aug 2.30pm 10.30 –11.30am, mYTHICAL BEASTS AND mAGICAL 11.30 –12.30pm, CREATuRES 1.30 –2.30pm, 2.30 –3.30pm Christchurch Mansion mAKE YOuR OWN mOSAIC Create your own masterpiece inspired by the fantastical Christchurch Mansion creatures painted on Christchurch Mansion’s Hawstead Panels. Create your own magic mosaic at our drop-in workshop. £3, Ages 7-11, pre-book at £3, Ages 7-11, pre-book at https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ ______Thur 4 Aug 10.30-11.30am, 1 –2pm, 2.30 –3.30pm Thu 18 Aug 10.30 –11.30am, 12 –1pm, 2 –3pm, SHADOW PuPPETS WORKSHOP 3.30 –4.30pm Christchurch Mansion mEDIEvAL ARCHERY TRAINING Join artist Ky Rice and make your own shadow puppets Christchurch Mansion £3, Ages 7-11, pre-book at Come and have a go with a long bow in and https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ release your inner Robin Hood! ______£3, Ages 7-11, pre-book at Sun 7, 14 and 21 Aug 11am –4pm https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ HISTORIC BuS RIDES! ______Ipswich Transport Museum Thu 25 Aug 10.30 –11.30am, 1 –2pm, 2.30 –3.30pm Take a magical ride on a historic bus or TELLING TALES coach and sample the sights and Christchurch Mansion sounds of yesteryear! Ever wondered how you get from ‘once upon a time’ to Free with normal admission, ‘happily ever after’? Join Mike Dodds, storyteller extraordinaire, All ages, Drop-in, See and learn how to tell tales of your own. ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk £3, Ages 7-11, pre-book at for the timetable https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ ______Wed 10 Aug 10 –3pm SHOW AND TELL DAY Ipswich Museum and Art School Gallery Have you ever found something interesting and wondered what it might be? Whatever your treasures bring them along to the ‘Show and Tell Day’ to discover more! Free, All ages, Drop-in

8 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 9 Ipswich Regular Events ______Every Tue from 26 Jul to 30 Aug 10.30 –11.30am, 1 –2pm Every Wed from 27 Jul to and 2.30 –3.30pm 24 Aug 10.15 –11.30am, SAxON SummER 12 –1.15pm, 2 –3.15pm Ipswich Museum and Art School Gallery ART SKILLS WORKSHOPS Starting during the Festival of Ipswich Museum and Art School Archaeology and continuing Gallery throughout the summer Learn new art skills every Wednesday throughout the summer enjoy Anglo-Saxon holidays at artist-led workshops at Ipswich Art School Gallery. themed workshops. 27 Jul DRAWING 26 Jul Come and have a go at different ways of drawing. TREASuRE 3 Aug pRINTING Create your own Create your own print with artist, Jen Hall. Anglo-Saxon 10 Aug pAINTING inspired treasures! Slap on the paint and brush up your art skills in this workshop 2 Aug all about paint. ARMOuR 17 Aug COLLAGE Join us to create Mix up pictures and patterns to bring them altogether in this your own cardboard collage workshop. armour or helmet. 24 Aug SCuLpTuRE 9 Aug MONEy Mould a 3D wire sculpture inspired by the art in the Ipswich Handle real Anglo-Saxon Art Gallery. coins and make your own £3 per child per session, Ages 7-11, pre-book at pocket money! https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/ 16 Aug MEDICINE Explore traditional Anglo-Saxon medicines in this multi- sensory workshop. 23 Aug WEAVING Practice your warping and wefting as you weave your own miniature creation. 30 Aug WILLOW SHApING Be inspired and take part in this wonderful willow weaving workshop! £3 per child per session, Ages 7-11, pre-book at https://apps.ipswich.gov.uk/pEO/

10 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 11 Waveney Waveney Special Events ______Always Available During museum Opening Hours Sun 24 Jul 10 –5pm ______FAmILY FuN DAY Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum mARITImE muSEum TRAIL A day of fun and family activities including Swing Dancing, a Lowestoft Maritime Museum BBMF Spitfire flypast, Suffolk Vehicle Enthusiasts Club, the Become maritime museum explorers with your handy map Polystyrene plate glider championship, Simulator Flying and and compass to find the treasure! more! Free, Ages 4-12, Drop-in Free, All ages, Drop-in ______DISCOvERY TRAILS Sat 30 Jul 11am –4pm Beccles Museum FAmILY FuN DAY – WOOL AND WEAvING Pick up a Discovery Trail and collect your detective kit to hunt Lowestoft Museum for the special hands-on objects in the museum! Join the ‘Travels in Time Team’ and weave your Free, Ages 4-12, Drop-in own woollen wonders! Plus, take part in a ______mini-dig to find the hidden artefacts or try the HALESWORTH TOWN TRAIL new family trail! Halesworth Museum Free, All ages, Drop-in Borrow one of the explorer backpacks ______and become a detective to discover Sun 31 Jul 10am –5pm the hidden side of Halesworth. WAvENEY vALLEY & DISTRICT Free, Ages 8-14, Check PRESERvATION SOCIETY availability – phone Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum 07552 508893 or email A day of family fun with bygones, working engines, the offi[email protected] Lowestoft Classic Vehicle Club, simulator flying and more! ______Free, All ages, Drop-in PIRATE TRAIL ______Halesworth Museum Sat 3 Sep 11am –4pm Explore the museum to find the pirates lurking in the display FAmILY FuN DAY – ROmAN HOmES cases and discover the treasures they are guarding! Lowestoft Museum Free, Ages 8-12, Drop-in Join the ‘Travels in Time Team’ and learn all about Roman ______home life through fun activities and crafts. Plus, take part in a TRAmS, TROLLYBuSES AND TRAINS! mini-dig to find the hidden artefacts or try the new family trail! East Anglia Transport Museum Free, All ages, Drop-in Take a family trip back in time and take a ride on our ______authentic trams, trolleybuses and trains! 22 Jul – 31 Aug (Various dates/times) Free with normal admission, All ages TOuRS, TALKS AND TRIPS Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum Join the museum on Monday’s and Tuesday’s for exciting Tours, Talks and Trips! Have a go at starting a jet fighter, fly a flight simulator, visit an Anderson shelter and more! Free, Various ages, Drop-in, See aviationmuseum.net for dates and times

12 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 13 Join Gainsborough's House, Mid and West Suffolk The National Horseracing Special Events Museum and West Stow ______Anglo-Saxon Village for an exciting three-day creative 23 –25 Jul 10am–5pm arts and crafts summer club vILLAGE LIFE AND THE SKILLS OF THE for children aged 7-11. WARRIORS West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Plus, gain an Arts Award Discover Level at The People of Eoferwic bring the Anglo-Saxon Village at West West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and The Stow to life with family activities, crafts and awe-inspiring weapon displays. National Horseracing Museum! Free with normal admission, Ages 3+, Drop in ______26 Jul and 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Aug 11am –3pm TuESDAY WORKSHOPS Moyse’s Hall Join Moyse’s Hall every Tuesday for a fun history craft workshop for all the family. Free with normal admission, All ages, Drop-in ______Sun 14 Aug 11am –5pm muSIC AT THE mIDDY! Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum Join the Middy for a day of family fun with live music including the Broadside Boys, engines in steam, train rides and real ale bar coach, the ‘Kitchener Arms’! Free with normal admission, All ages ______20–21 Aug 10am–5pm ANGLO-SAxON vILLAGE LIFE GAINSBOROuGH’S HOuSE West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village 10–12 Aug 10am–3pm Visit West-Stow for a day of Anglo-Saxon family life! Costume Tel: 01787 372958 group CHES will be on-site demonstrating Anglo-Saxon crafts, ______cooking and skills. THE NATIONAL HORSERACING muSEum Free with normal admission, Ages 3+, Drop-in 16 –18 Aug 10am –3pm Tel: 01638 667333 ______WEST STOW ANGLO-SAxON vILLAGE 22–24 Aug 10am–3pm Tel: 01284 728718

places are limited so book now either by phoning the museum or when visiting the site. Book your child's place before 15 July for the early bird price of just £60 for three days (£75 thereafter). 14 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 15 Wed 24 Aug 1 –4pm Every Tue10am –1pm CATS! GAINSBOROuGH'S PSYCHEDELIC SummER Lavenham Little Hall Museum OF COLOuR Visit the Little Hall Museum for a day of Gainsborough's House family activities and trails all about cats throughout history, Come and explore the fascinating world of including the famous Gayer-Anderson Cat! Puurfect! colour and light at Gainsborough's Children go free, Ages 2-11, pre-book on House! Design your own crazy colour [email protected] or phone 01473 823503 glasses, explore camera explorers, ______make a mobile and much more in Thu and Fri 10am –12pm our summer of art and science. muDS, BuGS AND BAKING 2 Aug RED Museum of East Anglia Life 9 Aug BLuE Join the Museum of East Anglia Life for six family-friendly, 16 Aug yELLOW fabulously fun activities. Each session starts with a story 23 Aug GREEN followed by exciting activities for everyone to join in. 30 Aug RAINBOW 11 Aug BuRGLAR BILL £2 per child £3 per adult, All ages, Drop-in, Join us for a scavenger hunt, make a Wanted Poster and price includes gallery admission fingerprint art. 12 Aug LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD keep an eye out for the Gainsborough’s House Join us today to try out lots of wolfie crafts. PLuS Creative Spaces tent at Clare Castle Country park and Flatford Nature Day 18 Aug SuGAR LuMp AND THE uNICORN H______Make your own hobby horse and mini carousal pony! 19 Aug ELMER AND THE WIND Thu 4, 11, 18 and 25 Aug 10am-5pm Come along today and create wonderful wind chimes. FAmILY ACTIvITY THuRSDAYS 25 Aug THE GREAT FAIRy TALE DISASTER West Stow Anglo-Saxon Turn yourself into fairy tale royalty by making your own crown! Village Plus, bake fairy tale cakes to take home. Have-a-go activities for all 26 Aug ELMER AND THE STRANGER the family including Archery, Have a go at lots of kangaroo crafts and make a kangaroo Pottery, Mini Archaeological planter to take home. dig and storytelling! £2.50 per child with normal museum entry, Free with normal Ages 2+, Drinks and biscuits included, Limited admission, spaces so pre-book at www.eastanglianlife.org.uk Ages 3+, Drop-in

16 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 17 Mid and West Suffolk museum information Always Available during Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Ipswich Art School Gallery museum Opening Hours Southwold, IP18 6NG Ipswich, IP1 3NE ______01502 723200 01473 433681 alfredcorry.co.uk/ cimuseums.org.uk

TREASuRE TRAIL Beccles Museum Ipswich Museum Clare Ancient House Beccles, NR34 9ND Ipswich, IP1 3QH Learn something new whilst exploring the beautiful 14th 01502 715722 01473 433551 century Ancient House and discover how Clare helped shape becclesmuseum.org.uk/ cimuseums.org.uk the Magna Carta! Bentwaters Cold War Museum Ipswich Transport Museum Children go free, Ages 13+, Drop-in Woodbridge, IP12 2TW Ipswich, IP3 9JD ______07588 877020 01473 715666 WEIRD AND WONDERFuL OBJECTS QuIz bcwm.org.uk/ ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk/ Laxfield Museum Christchurch Mansion Laxfield Museum Check out the new exhibition on Edwardian/Victorian toys Ipswich, IP4 2BE Laxfield, IP13 8DU and try the Weird and Wonderful Objects Quiz on some of the 01473 433554 01986 798318 cimuseums.org.uk/ laxfieldmuseum.onesuffolk.net/ museums more unusual artefacts! Free, All ages, Drop-in Clare Ancient House Museum Lavenham Little Hall Museum ______Clare, CO10 8MY Lavenham, C010 9QZ 01787 277572 01787 247019 THE TERRIBLE TOuR clare-ancient-house- littlehall.org.uk/ Moyse’s Hall museum.co.uk/ A gruesome, but family-friendly, guided tour of Moyse’s Hall; The Long Shop Museum Dunwich Museum Leiston, IP16 4ES handle amazing artefacts and weapons and try on some Dunwich, IP17 3DT 01728 832189 armour! 01728 648796 longshopmuseum.co.uk/ £1 with normal admission, Ages 4+, pre-book – dunwichmuseum.org.uk/ (Moyses Hall) 01284 706183 Lowestoft Maritime Museum ______East Anglia Transport Museum Lowestoft, NR32 1XG Carlton Colville, NR33 8BL 01502 561963 muSEum TRAIL 01502 518459 lowestoftmaritimemuseum.co.uk/ Mildenhall Museum eatransportmuseum.co.uk/ Lowestoft Museum Dress up as a Roman or Anglo-Saxon and discover the history Felixstowe Museum Oulten Broad, NR33 9JR of Mildenhall with a family-friendly museum trail and Felixstowe, IP11 3TW 01502 511457 interactive activities! Plus, Playshop activities for under fours! 01394 674355 lowestoftmuseum.org/ Free, All ages (Museum Trail Ages 6+), Drop-in felixstowemuseum.org/ Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Gainsborough’s House Museum Sudbury, CO10 2EU Stowmarket, IP14 5PW 01787 372958 01449 766899 gainsborough.org/ mslr.org.uk/

Halesworth Museum Mildenhall Museum Halesworth, IP19 8BZ Mildenhall, IP28 7ET 07552 508893 01638 716970 halesworthmuseum.org.uk/ mildenhallmuseum.co.uk/ wpress/ Moyse’s Hall Museum HMS Ganges Museum , IP33 1DX Shotley Marina, IP9 1QJ 01284 706183 01787 228417 weststow.org/moyses-hall hmsgangesmuseum.org.uk/

18 www.suffolkmuseums.org /summerinsuffolkmuseums 19 Museum of East Anglian Life Southwold Museum Stowmarket, IP14 1DL Southwold, IP18 6HZ 01449 612229 01502 726097 eastanglianlife.org.uk/ southwoldmuseum.org/

The National Horseracing Museum The Red House Newmarket, CB8 8JH Aldeburgh, IP15 5PZ 01638 667333 01728 451700 nhrm.co.uk/ brittenpears.org/visit-the-red- house Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Bungay NR35 1NZ Bury St. Edmunds IP28 6HG 01986 896644 01284 728718 aviationmuseum.net/ weststow.org/west.stow

Orford Museum The Tide Mill Living Museum Orford, IP12 2ND Woodbridge, IP12 1BY orfordmuseum.org.uk/ 01394 385295 woodbridgetidemill.org.uk/ Saxmundham Museum Saxmundham, IP17 1AJ 01728 663583 saxmundhammuseum.org.uk/

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