The Food Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Stowmarket, Suffolk
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–58–1212–16🛝 PlaygroundEducationalSeasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Dogs welcome
All-day parking GBP2.50 via MiPermit at Iliffe Way Car Park, Stowmarket IP14 1PN. Small on-site car park for visitors with access needs (gate + intercom at main entrance).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Food Museum is the UK's only museum dedicated to food, set across 84 acres with 17 historic buildings to explore. The site holds 40,000 objects relating to how food is grown, made and eaten. There's a new play area, hands-on activities and workshops throughout the year, plus a Feast Café and Afternoon Tea experience in the Fishing Lodge. Daily talks and tours run, and a School Dinners exhibition explores memories and tastes of school food past and present.
Summer season 30 March-25 October; winter season 26 October-29 March.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Lunch boxes
- Sun cream
- Portable phone charger
- Hair bobbles
- Kids' headphones
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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