Jun 22nd 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Volunteering
From Rationing to Plenty
How times have changed. One minute we’re free to go about our daily lives and the next we are obliged to stay at home. But we are not the first…
Jun 8th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Volunteering
Fact or opinion?: Commentary through cartoons
In the run-up to the museum’s exciting travelling exhibition, Fake News in the Age of the Horse, volunteers have been working through some of the museum’s incredible collection to understand…
May 11th 2020 • Community, Highlights
Parkland open for Silver and Gold members’ daily exercise
In light of the Prime Minister’s latest update (Sunday 10 May) and the encouragement to take exercise, we have made the decision that we will open the grounds of the…
Apr 17th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Community, Heritage, Highlights, Industry
Serving the community
Our Search for the Stars project to catalogue all of our c.40,000 objects has been highlighting some fascinating objects in our collection. Many of these are being researched for our…
Mar 20th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Community, Highlights
Search for the Stars from your home
Our Search for the Stars project, generously funded by Esmée Fairbairn and the Headley Trust, aims to transfer all of our 40,000 paper-based object records over to our online collections…
Feb 10th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Heritage, Highlights
Watermill to be restored to working order
Museum of East Anglian Life secures National Lottery support The Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £99,200 for an exciting…
Jan 27th 2020 • Collections & Exhibitions, Highlights, Volunteering
Separating the wheat from the chaff
Our Fake News in the Age of the Horse volunteers have been busy undertaking research to explore objects in the collection that tell stories of how news travelled, ideas were…
Jan 23rd 2020 • Community, Highlights, Volunteering
Seeking new Trustees
We are seeking to appoint a new Chair and up to four new Trustees With 17 historic buildings set in 75 acres of countryside, the Museum of East Anglian Life…
