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Suffolk Steps is a collection of local historic walks and trails developed by museums and partners throughout Suffolk. The free walks are designed to help all ages stay active and uncover hidden history in the towns and Suffolk countryside. Keeping active is a key theme for Suffolk Steps partner, … Continue reading Suffolk Steps: Pathways to the Past on your doorstep

The Lettering Arts Trust shares with us the message that carved rainbows have been carrying during lockdown... At the start of Lockdown rainbows started to appear in windows, originating in Ipswich in Suffolk and quickly trending across the land as a sign of hope. Together with regular Thursday … Continue reading Over the Rainbow at The Lettering Arts Trust

Making Waves Together is a 3-year National Lottery Heritage Fund programme that has worked to promote unity, pride, health and wellbeing in the communities it serves. It continues to bring the towns of Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft together by giving people the opportunity to participate and engage … Continue reading Reflecting on Making Waves Together

Fraser Hale gives an update on the leaps that the Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum has made towards becoming more environmentally sustainable. Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum has recently retained its Gold Carbon Charter Award. The Tide Mill is proud of its environmental credentials and works hard to ensure … Continue reading New Energy at Woodbridge Tide Mill

From Dunkirk with love - letter finally delivered, 80 years late Suffolk Archives has produced a new online display showcasing extracts from undelivered letters written by soldiers from the Suffolk Regiment. 80 years ago next week, as the British army retreated towards Dunkirk, a group of young … Continue reading From Dunkirk with love

Mildenhall Museum volunteer Joe Moore, sheds some light on the activity of its workforce during lockdown... Like all other Museums in Suffolk, we are currently closed and our view is we are unlikely to re-open fully before September. Many of our volunteers are aged 70+, and therefore cannot venture … Continue reading Mildenhall in Lockdown

The Red House and Aldeburgh Museum have been successful in securing a grant of £5,000 from Historic England to support a new joint educational project between the organisations.  This inspiring educational project is a partnership between two important heritage organisations in Aldeburgh: The Red … Continue reading 40 Funs Ways to Explore Aldeburgh’s Heritage Collection

Lisa Harris, curator at the Museum of the East Anglia Life, talks about her recent work with the Rural Museums Network. The Rural Museums Network is a registered charity aimed at promoting learning and encouraging a wider understanding of the UK's rural heritage.  Earlier this year, I was involved … Continue reading Understanding Rural Networks

Flying on the Ground Part 1 Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum talks about the history of flight simulators,  Link flight trainers at the museum and offering visitors the chance to experience what it would be like to pilot a plane. Background In the late 1920s, Edwin Link decided that with … Continue reading Flying on the Ground with NASAM

West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Moyse’s Hall have met the challenges of lockdown head-on and formed new partnerships. Heritage Officer, Daniel Clarke, tells us more.  Moyse’s Hall launched its lockdown competition in partnership with Horrible Histories author, Terry Deary, and Suffolk based … Continue reading West Suffolk Heritage Service During Lockdown

A pioneering new cultural partnership in Ipswich has developed 230 multi-lingual activity packs to support some of the town’s most vulnerable communities during the Coronavirus outbreak. Elle Root, Collections and Learning curator, at Ipswich Museum, tells us more.  At Colchester + … Continue reading Taking Ipswich Museum to our Community

Joe Carr, Collection and Learning Curator at The Red House, has worked to develop an extensive learning and education programme for schools, families and children of all ages. Mini Music Makers is one of these initiatives, developed to engage local families with under 5s, with The Red House and with … Continue reading Mini Music Makers goes online

A new online resource has been launched to make it easy for people to find quality online arts and culture experiences during the current lockdown. The new Let’s Get Cultural and Creative web directory is being hosted by Suffolk Libraries with the content coordinated by Suffolk County Council and … Continue reading Let’s Get Cultural and Creative in Suffolk!

The Lettering Arts Trust is delighted to launch a long-anticipated exhibition: “Innovative Forms: The Lettering of John Skelton”. Curated by John’s daughter Helen Mary Skelton, this intriguing retrospective has been in development for more than seven years. It brings together examples of public and … Continue reading Take a virtual tour of Innovative Forms: The Lettering of John Skelton at the Lettering Arts Trust

Despite the extended closed season Making Waves Together has been busy working behind the scenes in preparation for extra special re-openings at both Lowestoft Maritime Museum and Lowestoft Museum. Lowestoft Maritime Museum is continuing to build on their AFSM Family Friendly Award and has created … Continue reading Making Waves Together update

After having come into possession of the King's Head Hotel in 2016, the Bungay Castle Trust has recently sold the premises to  local businessman Paul Thornton. Paul Thornton is managing director of Beccles-based VC Cooke, a trade-based metal and recycling service for local businesses. The sale of … Continue reading Future developments in Bungay

I’m sure it will come as little of a surprise to hear that our Museum is now closed for the foreseeable future, given the very serious risks associated with the Coronavirus epidemic. However, there is perhaps one good thing to come out of this, in that it has made us think hard about some of our … Continue reading Virtually Touring Mildenhall

After a complete transformation Aldeburgh Museum, located in the Tudor Moot Hall has reopened to the public. The interior of this the Grade I listed building, used for local government since Tudor times, has had a complete makeover.  The history of the grand building and that of the town is … Continue reading Aldeburgh Museum Re-opens

Due to a refurbishment of the Castle, the Museum was forced to seek alternative storage for many of our artefacts off-site. In addition, our collection of local history related items is ever growing so adequate and effective storage solutions were needed. In particular,  we needed racking to house … Continue reading Storage Solutions at The Lanman Museum

The number 2020 is associated with vision and this year the Haverhill and District Local History Group is going to take a yearlong ‘snapshot’ of Haverhill town. This will become a resource for the historians and genealogists of the future. We are living at a turning point in history; society is … Continue reading Haverhill Local History Group – 2020 vision

Clare has had a Town Trail since the late 1990s, with five posts around town. Each post had 3 faces explaining the nearby buildings and providing historical or architectural details. The Trail has just been expanded to seven posts each with revised information, and with 21 brass markers in the … Continue reading Clare Town Trail – Renewed and Expanded

Over 2019, The Red House undertook an exciting, new project to engage SEN schools and pupils with the site, museum and music of Benjamin Britten. The project involved a partnership with Autism in Nature, a non-profit organisation dedicated to enriching the lives of people on the autistic spectrum. … Continue reading Engaging SEN schools at The Red House

Visitor numbers seem to have held up, being about the same as last year. The exhibition in July and August, entitled "Search & Rescue" was one of the most successful we have had on loan from Epping Forest Museums. Young visitors were very keen on the small uniforms for dressing up, and one or … Continue reading More from Mildenhall

Our names are Charlie and Alana and we are the Community Engagement Trainees at Palace House in Newmarket as part of the Suffolk Museums’ ‘Transforming People to Transform Museums’ programme, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund ‘Skills for the Future’ initiative. We arrived at Palace House … Continue reading All in a Neigh’s Work