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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

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