🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducational☔ Rainy-day friendlySeasonal openingSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
Parking is free of charge and there are plenty of spaces (venue's steam museum page).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Thursford Collection is a working steam engine and organ museum in rural North Norfolk, set around traction engines, showman's engines, fairground and mechanical organs and vintage fairground rides. Families can look over the steam machines, hear the fairground organs, and watch a resident organist play the large Wurlitzer theatre organ during the summer season. Silent films are shown in the museum at times, and the vintage carousel and gondola switchback can be ridden for an extra charge. A barn café and an old-fashioned shopping village sit on the site, and the grounds also host a Christmas show and a seasonal light trail in winter. It suits a relaxed half-day out for mixed ages, especially children who enjoy machinery, music and history.
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.- Travel games
- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
- Rucksack rain cover
- Zip-lock bagsThe shell collection, the wet swimming costume, the half-eaten sandwich.
Sunglasses
Rucksack
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0
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