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Exhibitions

School Dinners

2 Apr 2025 - 25 Feb 2027
All Day
£Free with entry

Explore school dinners past, present and future as memories and tastes of school food are brought to life through our new annual exhibition, opening March 2025.

Family Activity, Workshop

School Pudding Workshop

24 Jul 2025 - 29 Aug 2025
14:00 - 15:00
£6.50-64.50

Make your own retro-pudding surrounded by our School Dinners exhibition. This is the perfect workshop for all the family to get involved with and share memories of old school days.…

Family Activity, Talks & Activities, Workshop

Family pizza baking

24 Jul 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
10:30 - 12:00
£5-21.50

On Thursday, Friday, Saturday mornings in the Summer Holidays, make your own delicious flatbread pizzas from scratch and bake them in our wood-fired pizza oven.

Family Activity, Talks & Activities

Thrills and Grills

29 Jul 2025 - 27 Aug 2025
09:30 - 15:30
£33-38.50

Pasta, paella, pizzas! Come and feel the heat in our summer cooking programme!

Daily Programme

Daily Talks & Tours

2 Aug 2022 - 21 Dec 2025
11:00 - 15:30
£Free with entry

No matter which day you visit the Food Museum, there’s always a talk, tour or demonstration to enjoy.

Workshop

Forest School

21 Apr 2023 - 19 Dec 2025
10:30 - 14:30
£10-12

Let the kids go wild in the glorious woodlands of our 84-acre site! Forest School is a unique experience that offers participants the opportunity to succeed and develop confidence through hands-on activities outdoors.

Family Activity, Under 5s

Toddler Time

3 Jan 2024 - 17 Dec 2025
10:00 - 11:00
FREE

Looking for fun, educational activities for under-5’s? Join us for Toddler Time at the Food Museum every Wednesday!

Exhibitions

Akenfield Revisited

10 May 2025 - 25 Apr 2026
10:00 - 17:00
FREE

50 years on from the release of the film, the Food Museum is pleased to tell the story of Akenfield – the groundbreaking book, the film and the people who…

Cafe

Afternoon Tea

20 May 2025 - 30 Sep 2025
14:00 - 16:00
£30

Our stunning new bridge has given the public access to the Fishing Lodge for the first time. Built in the mid-18th century, this building was used by the former residents…

Exhibitions

Food Not Cuts

27 Jun 2025 - 9 Nov 2025
All Day
FREE

Food not Cuts explores how food and care are connected. It highlights how cuts to care and a lack of support can make accessing food difficult for deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people.

Demonstrations

Steam Sunday

13 Jul 2025 - 11 Jan 2026
All Day
FREE

Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of our working steam traction engine, the Empress of Britain, as our volunteers use steam coal to bring it to life.