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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

Sudbury Heritage Centre reports growing success with a feature that offers visitors individual choice of windows into the history of the town. History Shorts is based on a large, touch-sensitive, digital display screen with a library of local history topics. Choosing a subject by the touch of a … Continue reading Giving the visitor more choice at Sudbury Heritage Centre

Great War Huts have had a busy few weeks. On Thursday 7th November we were delighted to welcome back Robert Lloyd Parry for another wonderful evening of M.R.James Ghost Stories. Always popular, Robert's wonderful delivery brings these spine-tingling tales to life. The audience of over forty people, … Continue reading More News from Brook Farm Camp

On 24 September 1937, when RAF Bawdsey became the first fully operational Radar station in the world, many of the first generation of Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) radar personnel were trained at Bawdsey. However, the voices of the WAAFs are under-represented in the displays and interpretation … Continue reading The Hidden Histories of Women at Bawdsey Radar

On the 27 October 2019 Gainsborough’s House closed to the public for major redevelopment, largely supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Following the completion of a new three-storey extension and the refurbishment of the old house, we hope to re-open again in summer 2021 with several new … Continue reading Loaning Collections at Gainsborough’s House

The woodwose is a curiosity harboured by many churches in rural Suffolk. Mysterious carvings of these wildmen-of-the-woods can be found on the staves of stone baptismal fonts or as reliefs adorning the porch of a church. Believed to date from around the 15th century, little is known about these … Continue reading The Last Woodwose

The Children's University (CU) Trust is a charitable trust that provides 7 to 14 year olds (and 5 to 6 year olds with their families) with exciting and innovative learning activities and experiences outside normal school hours. They celebrate achievement and reward participation through award … Continue reading The Suffolk Children’s University

The Red House have been successful in their recent application to the Arts Award Access Fund. The funding, administered by Trinity College, will allow The Red House, as an Arts Award Centre, help over 6o children from Chilton Community Primary School in Stowmarket achieve their Arts Award and begin … Continue reading Arts Award Success at The Red House

YMCA resident working with Lisa Temple-Cox on their banner I’ve got the vote and I’m going to use it! On February 16th, Ipswich Art Gallery threw the doors open and welcomed friends, families and visitors to explore the colourful, creative and challenging artwork created as a part of the … Continue reading Women 100 at Ipswich Art Gallery

Classical music is not traditionally seen as family friendly, but the Britten-Pears Foundation at the Red House in Aldeburgh aims to change that with a transformed programme of events and educational visits to engage and inspire families and younger audiences. The Britten-Pears Foundation … Continue reading Engaging families and younger visitors at the Red House

With 17 historic buildings set in 75 acres of varied landscape, the Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL) is the largest independent museum in Suffolk. In January 2018, MEAL launched Search for the Stars, a collections digitisation project with a difference. MEAL cares for approximately 40,000 … Continue reading Search for the Stars at the Museum of East Anglian Life

The SHARE Museums East Conference will be held at Firstsite, Colchester on the 19th November 2018. The conference will look at how we can diversify the way we work to make our museums more accessible and appealing to a wider range of people, and in the process make them more resilient too. There … Continue reading SHARE Conference: Embrace, Empower, Employ

The 2018 Object of the Year competition closed this morning after a final, busy weekend of voting! This years competition looked at objects which hold Hidden Histories, stories that perhaps aren't obvious at first glance.  An object with a Hidden History can be anything from objects which are … Continue reading Object of the Year 2018 – And the winner is!

The Red House, Aldeburgh, the home of the British composer and Suffolk hero Benjamin Britten has been recognised for its family offering and has been shortlisted, alongside 10 other museums nationwide, for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award. For the last two years the … Continue reading The Red House shortlisted for major family-friendly award