Events calendar

As part of King’s Lynn’s popular annual 1940s event, drop-in at any time on 21st July for free! Once here you can meet a Land Army Girl, handle real artefacts from the 1940s, learn how to cook on the ration, visit the sweet shop and try your hand at Make Do and Mend crafts. No booking required!

Tour the garden and make remedies and beauty products popular 100 years ago. Includes refreshments. Booking essential, 01603 495897 / 493625.

Head outside to see the animals, explore the woods, farm and orchards. Take a cart ride with our Suffolk Punch horses, follow the horseshoe trail and join in with horsey crafts. Bring your wellies, wear old clothes and get stuck in!

Gurinder Singh Mann, historian and Director of the Sikh Museum Initiative, will discuss the types of objects that came from the Punjab. He will consider relics and artefacts that were in the possession of Maharajah Duleep Singh – most notably the jewellery – as well as that of his mother, Maharani Jindan Kaur. This leads to a fascinating story of how they were handed down to Sophia Duleep Singh and her role in the Suffragette movement. There will also be a spotlight on the Anglo Sikh Online Museum, where the 3D jewellery of Sophia Duleep Singh is on display as part of the exhibition at Thetford. Part of the Festival of Norfolk and the Punjab. Booking essential via the Leaping Hare Box Office.

An introductory tour of this blockbuster exhibition from the British Museum and York Museums Trust. Tours last approx 30-45 minutes and are suitable for all.

Join our specially trained staff for a relaxed, friendly get together for people living with memory loss, and their friends and families. We offer a short tour of museum highlights, followed by coffee and a chat, with a chance to handle museum objects.

Come along to our fun-packed sessions for pre-schoolers (though older family and friends are welcome, too!). Let's learn, play and explore the Ancient House together. Join us to make crafts, sing songs, listen to stories and have fun in the museum. This month we will be making swords and dragon finger puppets, and those who are brave enough to enter the dragon's den can decorate a dragon's egg to take home!

Swing into the 1950s with activities throughout the school holidays.

Swing into the 1950s with activities throughout the school holidays.

Join Lea Hausmann (violin) and Samuel Shepherd (cello) for a pop-up concert as part of King’s Lynn Festival’s annual series of 30-minute informal concerts in community spaces.

Head outside to see the animals, explore the woods, farm and orchards. Take a cart ride with our Suffolk Punch horses, follow the horseshoe trail and join in with horsey crafts. Bring your wellies, wear old clothes and get stuck in!

The fantastic Teenage History Club comes to Norwich Castle, where they'll be sharing queer stories and artefacts on display at the museum, including Duleep Singh linked items. Part of Norwich Pride and the Festival of Norfolk and Punjab. Admission to the tour only is free, but must be booked in advance online: https://bit.ly/2KDONVu. Tour lasts approx 45 minutes, after which attendees are welcome to explore the museum on a Twilight Ticket (£2 after 3.30pm).

Head outside to see the animals, explore the woods, farm and orchards. Take a cart ride with our Suffolk Punch horses, follow the horseshoe trail and join in with horsey crafts. Bring your wellies, wear old clothes and get stuck in!

Be inspired by Norfolk's wonderful coastline and make some amazing landscape pictures using natural and recycled materials.

Have a go at brass-rubbing from our collection of saintly heroes and grisly gargoyles. Self led children's craft activity.

Design your own marvellous crown to celebrate Norfolk Day in royal style. Self led children's craft activity.

Grab your ration book and head to our wartime corner shop – see what’s on offer and find out how to save food with a bit of culinary creativity.

Teenage History Club reveals a queer take on the stories at the Museum of Norwich. Booking essential via Festival Box Office, 01842 751975 / 07802 701911, www.leapinghare.org. Part of Norwich Pride.

Pop-up exhibition Curated by Teenage History Club this exhibition explores what it was like to identify as LGBTQ+ in the past. Discover the stories of Princess Catherine Duleep Singh and Lina Schafer, Robert Carlton, an 18th Century tailor, and Justin Fashanu, the first openly gay professional footballer. Produced in partnership with South Norfolk Council and Ancient House Teenage History Club.

As part of Norfolk Day, Lynn Museum are offering a fascinating talk, where National Trail Officer Jack Davidson will discuss the unique heritage of north-west Norfolk, and the opportunities offered by Norfolk’s trails and rights of way for those wishing to explore it.

Meet a costumed character to find out about Prince Frederick's role in training horses during the First World War and make a horse craft to take home. Part of Festival of Norfolk and Punjab.

Swing into the 1950s with activities throughout the school holidays.

Find out what lies beneath the museum in a guided tour of our undercroft - the largest medieval undercroft in the city. The tour lasts around 45 minutes and is free with museum admission. Call us to book. Please note there are steep steps leading down to the undercroft. Booking essential, 01603 629127.

Head outside to see the animals, explore the woods, farm and orchards. Take a cart ride with our Suffolk Punch horses, follow the horseshoe trail and join in with horsey crafts. Bring your wellies, wear old clothes and get stuck in!

Head outside to see the animals, explore the woods, farm and orchards. Take a cart ride with our Suffolk Punch horses, follow the horseshoe trail and join in with horsey crafts. Bring your wellies, wear old clothes and get stuck in!

Cook is experimenting with the new exotic flavours available in Victorian Britain. Spot familiar recipes along with unusual combinations.

Children with autism and other special needs can enjoy the museum as a quiet environment, with gallery projections and sound effects switched off.

Voyage into the world of Vikings, explore beautiful Viking objects, tackle a trail, enjoy guided tours, discover the Nordic origin of local place names, plus costumes and more! Activities are included with museum admission, programme changes daily. (Excluding Sunday)

As part of our exciting holiday programme, make your own Coppergate helmet plus create a wonderful Viking navigation chart to take home. This activity will run daily during the holidays (except Sunday)