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Saturday 25 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Saturday 25 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Sunday 26 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 26 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Monday 27 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Monday 27 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
History Alive!

Step back in time to the Georgian age and discover an era of elegance. Explore what life was like when the workhouse was first built.

Tuesday 28 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Wednesday 29 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Thursday 30 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Thursday 30 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Friday 31 May 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Friday 31 May 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Saturday 01 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Saturday 01 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Sunday 02 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 02 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00   Combination of timed activities and self-led elements accessibly throughout the day. Please contact the museum for further details.
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Create! Half Term Family Fun

Get creative this May Half Term and see Gressenhall in a whole new way. Join in the big weaving project, try your hand at different styles of art and play the special colours game around the museum. Join our graffiti artist on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and design your own tag.

Sunday 09 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 09 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 13:00   The mobile cinema will be on site from 10am until 1pm. It will then depart for Cromer. For a full itinerary, please visit www.archivealive.org
Price:   Free admission to the Archive Alive cinema. Visitors are also welcome to use the Mardlers’ Rest Café, museum shop and toilets without charge.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
‘Archive Alive’ cinema tour

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse proudly welcomes the ‘Archive Alive’ mobile cinema tour, showing archive film footage within the unique setting of a 1960s vintage mobile cinema between 10am and 1pm on Sunday 9 June This exciting and unique tour will incorporate the mobile cinema stopping at 17 locations across East Anglia to offer free screenings of local archive films from the last century aboard the 22-seater digital cinema. For more information, please see www.archivealive.org

Sunday 16 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 16 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Father's Day - a day with a difference

Calling all dads! See ‘big boys toys’ and explore the great outdoors!

Saturday 29 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Saturday 29 June 2013
Times: 14:00 - 16:00   2pm-4pm. Discounted admission available from 12noon.
Price:   Admission £2.50. Discounted admission available from 12noon.


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
The 2013 George Edwards Memorial Meeting

Work and Wages on the Farm - the Agricultural Wages Board: its history, influence – and abolition - is the focus for this year's meeting to mark the life and work Sir George Edwards, the Methodist preacher, Member of Parliament and founder of the National Union of Agricultural Workers. The meeting is organised jointly by the East Anglia District of Methodist Church and the Norfolk branch of of the UNITE trades union. The event will be chaired by Frank Oldfield, former Manager of the Raynham Estate Farms, and the main speaker will be Ivan Monkton, Member for the Rural & Agricultural Trades Group on the General Executive Committee of UNITE. Mr Monkton’s talk will be followed by a discussion opened by David Jones, Farm Manager for the Morley Agricultural Foundation.

Sunday 30 June 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 30 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Gressenhall Garden Show - a day with a difference

Explore Gressenhall’s blooming marvellous gardens and fascinating horticultural collections.

Sunday 14 July 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 14 July 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Archaeology Day - a day with a difference

Celebrate the Festival of British Archaeology with activities led by Norfolk Historic Environment Service.

Sunday 28 July 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 28 July 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Grandparents' special ticket price of just £5.00! For all other, standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Grandparents' Day - a day with a difference

A great day of activities for the whole family to enjoy together, with a special low admission price of jut £5.00 for all grandparents!

Sunday 04 August 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 04 August 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Harvest Celebration - a day with a difference

Discover where your food comes from, taste the best Norfolk has to offer and watch heavy horses working on the farm.

Saturday 10 August 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Saturday 10 August 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Festival on the Farm

Breckland Council welcomes you to Festival on the Farm at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse. For further information, please see www.festivalonthefarm.com

Sunday 25 August 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 25 August 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Village at War

Experience what it was like to grow up during the Second World War and the impact on family life on the home front.

Monday 26 August 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Monday 26 August 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Village at War

Experience what it was like to grow up during the Second World War and the impact on family life on the home front.

Sunday 15 September 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 15 September 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Free admission


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Heritage Open Day - a day with a difference

To celebrate this national heritage event admission to the museum is free, with access behind the scenes to the Historic Environment Service.

Sunday 29 September 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 29 September 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Horse Power! - a day with a difference

Meet experts and see heavy horses working on Gressenhall Farm.

Sunday 20 October 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 20 October 2013
Times: 10:00 - 17:00  
Price:   Standard museum admission prices apply: Adults: £9.30, Concessions: £8.30, Young People (4-16): £6.30


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Apple Day

Celebrate the very best of autumn with all things appley – pressing, tasting, buying and naming.

Wednesday 30 October 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Wednesday 30 October 2013
Times: 18:00 - 20:00  
Price:   Advanced booking essential. To book, tel. 01362 869251. Ticket prices: Adults £6, children £4.50 (discount for Museums Pass)


01362 869251
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Ghostly Gressenhall

A Halloween family party for all your little witches and warlocks! Join us for this special pre-booked ticketed event.

Thursday 31 October 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Thursday 31 October 2013
Times: 18:00 - 20:00  
Price:   Advanced booking essential. To book, tel. 01362 869251. Ticket prices: Adults £6, children £4.50 (discount for Museums Pass)


01362 869251
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Ghostly Gressenhall

A Halloween family party for all your little witches and warlocks! Join us for this special pre-booked ticketed event.

Saturday 07 December 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Saturday 07 December 2013
Times: 10:00 - 12:00  
Price:   Ticket prices: £4 for Norfolk Wildlife Trust members and £6 for non-members. To book, please contact Norfolk Wildlife Trust on 01603 625540


01362 860563
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Norfolk Wildlife Trust's Wildlife Watch: Back in Time

Join Norfolk Wildlife Trust's for their special pre-booked 'Wildlife Watch' event. Step back in time on Gressenhall Farm. This is a special opportunity to visit the museum in the winter and to see traditional farming methods and how they benefit wildlife.

Sunday 15 December 2013
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse
Date:
Sunday 15 December 2013
Times: 10:00 - 14:30  
Price:   Advanced booking essential. To book, tel. 01362 869251. Ticket prices: Adults £7, children £5 (discount for Museums Pass)


01362 869251
gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Victorian Family Christmas

Turn back the clock and enjoy a traditional Victorian Christmas with festive fun for all the family with this special pre-booked ticketed event.