Oct 8th 2024 • Blog, Collections & Exhibitions, Trainees & Internships
Exploring Accessible Cooking Tools
Explore accessible cooking tools and cookery with our Curating Visibility Fellow, Anahita Harding When I began working at the Food Museum, as part of the Curating Visibility Programme with Screen…
Aug 27th 2024 • Collections & Exhibitions
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Collections Audit
Since 2017, we have been undertaking a major project to digitise and audit our collection of over 40,000 objects, assembled over the last 60 years. More information here. We have…
Aug 22nd 2024 • Collections & Exhibitions
School Dinners exhibition coming to the Food Museum
March 2025 will see the launch of a major exhibition at the Food Museum on the theme of School Dinners. From nutrition and popular culture to government policy and campaigners,…
Mar 16th 2022 • Collections & Exhibitions, Heritage, Highlights
News from the Watermill
Alton Watermill is currently being restored and is due to reopen in mid-2022. Collections and Interpretation Manager Lisa Harris updates us on the work that has been taking place and…
Dec 13th 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Food, Highlights, Trainees & Internships
Christmas in the Collection
Christmas in the Collection The Museum of East Anglian Life is fortunate to have a wide and varied collection, from which so many stories can be told. Perhaps you would…
Dec 8th 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Food, Highlights, Trainees & Internships
The Joys of Christmas Dinner
The Christmas season has arrived, and the museum is looking very festive and feeling rather cold! But alongside the winter weather comes a range of festive food, which some of…
Dec 2nd 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Trainees & Internships
Festive Food Traditions- Biscuit Tins
It’s almost Christmas! No matter how you spend it, I think we can all agree that one of the most exciting parts is the delicious food we get to eat…
Oct 15th 2021 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights
DIALECT & HERITAGE: Do you have family from one of these East Anglian villages?
DIALECT & HERITAGE: Do you have family from one of these East Anglian villages? We are looking for people who have long family connections to the following villages listed below…
