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It’s a special time of year, and Suffolk museums have some magical moments lined up to celebrate the festive season. The Ipswich Transport Museum’s final open day of the year is sure to be a Christmas Cracker! Festive decorations and entertainment, along with Santa’s Grotto and a chance to ride … Continue reading Christmas in Suffolk Museums

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

Heritage Lottery Funded project provides paid museum trainee opportunities across Suffolk & Essex The Colchester + Ipswich Museums Service is entering an exciting time of change and development. Supported by public funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s 'Skills for the Future … Continue reading Transforming People to Transform Museums

You will find Suffolk museums in all sorts of interesting places: in moot halls and mansions, castles and control towers, seaside cottages and country houses. Each is different and filled with the objects and stories that keep Suffolk’s rich heritage alive. This leaflet is your guide to Suffolk’s … Continue reading Download the new Suffolk Museums leaflet!

Felixstowe Museum are celebrating after winning one of the prestigious awards last night at the EADT (East Anglian Daily Times) EDP (Eastern Daily Press) Norfolk and Suffolk Tourism Awards 2018 (www.tourismawards.co.uk) The museum is now officially the ‘Best Small Visitor Attraction’ in the area. … Continue reading Felixstowe Museum win ‘Best Small Visitor Attraction’ Award

The National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House in Newmarket took the overall title of Suffolk Museum of the Year and Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds won the  2017 Family Friendly Award. Other winners were the East Anglia Transport … Continue reading Capturing the (Awards) Moment

Lowestoft Rising with Museums is an Arts Council England funded project that works under the umbrella of Lowestoft Rising to improve the resilience and sustainability of three of the most popular museums in Lowestoft: Lowestoft Museum, Lowestoft Maritime Museum and East Anglia Transport … Continue reading Volunteering matters at Lowestoft Museums!

Suffolk Museums' reminiscence resources will be featuring throughout the week May 15 - 20 at an Ipswich event aimed at helping people living with dementia to reconnect with  activities, events and experiences. “Reliving the Moment” is a special Dementia Awareness Week  event … Continue reading Reliving the Moment

Ipswich and Colchester museums were successful in the first bid for a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which will go towards the ‘Transforming People to Transform Museums’ project. The scheme will enable the two museums, alongside the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket, the … Continue reading Skills for the future in Suffolk Museums

We are delighted to be adding to Suffolk Museums' stock of loan resources, meaning that care homes and community groups in the Ipswich area will soon find it easier to borrow one of our Rekindling Memories mini-kitchen cabinets or wardrobes. The new resources will  be … Continue reading More memory resources

The two museums with the biggest smiles on their faces at 2016 Suffolk Museum of the Year Awards last night were Southwold Museum and Leiston's Long Shop Museum - which scooped  Suffolk Museum of the Year and the new Special Family Friendly Award respectively. But the good news and … Continue reading Everyone’s a winner!

Creative Heritage & Art in Mind is a Heritage Lottery funded heritage and arts in mental health project offering courses across four Suffolk museums: Ipswich Museum, Gainsborough's House, Moyse's hall Museum, and the Museum of East Anglian Life. Led by community artist Juliet … Continue reading Watch Creative Heritage in Mind on film