Lowestoft Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Lowestoft, Suffolk
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 1pm
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
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Lowestoft Museum is a volunteer-run, donation-funded local history museum housed in Broad House, a Grade II listed building dating from 1685, within the grounds of Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad. It collects, preserves and displays objects relating to the history of the area and its people. The museum is best known for its important collection of 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain, but also has displays of locally found fossils and artefacts relating to early man (including Pakefield Man, dating back 700,000 years), archaeology from Roman and Anglo-Saxon sites, exhibits on HMS Lowestoft and HMS Mantis and Lowestoft as a fishing port, local industries, and famous local characters such as Benjamin Britten and George Borrow. There is a Victorian room setting with domestic items, a Cobbler's shop, a Doctor's surgery, a display on St John Ambulance, old toys and WW1/WW2 items. Free entry, staffed by volunteers. Opening is seasonal (April to October).
Questions parents ask
- Is Lowestoft Museum manageable with a buggy, or with a toddler and older child together?
- We haven't confirmed whether buggies are practical in the museum. Since it's housed in Broad House, a grade II listed building from 1685, there may be stairs or narrow spaces, so it's worth ringing ahead to check before you visit with a buggy or younger children alongside older ones.
- Is there anywhere to eat at the museum, or should we bring a picnic?
- We haven't confirmed a café at the museum. However, it's situated within the grounds of Nicholas Everitt Park, which may have facilities or space for a picnic — ringing ahead would help you plan.
- Are there toilet facilities at Lowestoft Museum?
- There are no toilet facilities inside the museum itself, but public toilets are situated just a few yards away.
- Which ages get the most out of Lowestoft Museum?
- The collections span local history from fossils and Pakefield Man through Roman and Anglo-Saxon archaeology to more recent displays including toys, a Victorian room, and a cobbler's shop. School groups visit, and the variety means primary-age children and up are likely to find something of interest, though specific age suitability isn't recorded.
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.
Toilet rollAssume the worst about the facilities and you'll never be wrong.
A penForms, competitions, name badges.
Refillable coffee cupA lot of cafés knock money off.- Hair bobbles
- Children's paracetamol sachetsThe one thing a farm shop never sells.
Pocket money purseGift shop answered in advance, in numbers.
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