Events calendar

Join us for a magical half-term! Make Healing Potions and Patronus Charms, and find out about Local Witchcraft with a daily changing programme of holiday activities throughout half-term. Activities run 18-27 October (excluding Sunday)

As part of Norwich Science Festival find out fascinating facts about our fully restored Jacquard loom, and how the mechanism links to the early development of computing.

Explore Ancient House to discover the Black History hidden within unexpected objects and win a small prize to take home. Part of Black History Month.

In the past, people believed that witches were all around them, causing mischief and ill fortune in the world. Learn how to protect yourself against their wicked ways! Find the witches’ lost creatures around the museum and create your own witch’s ‘familiar’ to take home with you.

As part of our exciting half-term 'Could it be Magic?', Izzy wizzy, the Great Paree, get's busy. Discover our magical history in this special performance. Performance included with museum admission

As part of our exciting half-term 'Could it be Magic?' programme, join our Senior Natural History Curator Dr David Waterhouse to explore the magical and mythical world of animals. Activity included with museum admission.

Are you brave enough to join us for a Spooky Dungeon Tour? Descend into the bowels of Norwich Castle and feel the hairs rise on the back of your neck. Imagine yourself as one of the unlucky souls, forced to live in chains in the cold and dark, unsure of the fate awaiting you. Hear about the crimes of times gone by and examine instruments of punishment like the ducking stool, scold’s bridle and gibbet iron. Tours daily from 22 October - 27 October. Suitable for 5+. Booking advised: 01603 493625

What can we tell from family photos? Using local photographic archives this exhibition reveals how to unlock some of the clues in the images. In partnership with Picture Norfolk and Let’s Talk magazine.

Learn about life in Roman Norfolk - meet costumed characters and handle real objects from the past. Make and taste Roman food, and discover some interesting uses for olive oil!

What can we tell from family photos? Using local photographic archives this exhibition reveals how to unlock some of the clues in the images. In partnership with Picture Norfolk and Let’s Talk magazine.

Are you brave enough to join us for a Spooky Dungeon Tour? Descend into the bowels of Norwich Castle and feel the hairs rise on the back of your neck. Imagine yourself as one of the unlucky souls, forced to live in chains in the cold and dark, unsure of the fate awaiting you. Hear about the crimes of times gone by and examine instruments of punishment like the ducking stool, scold’s bridle and gibbet iron. Tours daily from 22 October - 27 October. Suitable for 5+. Booking advised: 01603 493625

Discover the dangers that lurked around every corner for unsuspecting residents of the past. Suitable for age 5+.

In the past, people believed that witches were all around them, causing mischief and ill fortune in the world. Learn how to protect yourself against their wicked ways! Find the witches’ lost creatures around the museum and create your own witch’s ‘familiar’ to take home with you.

In the past, people believed that witches were all around them, causing mischief and ill fortune in the world. Learn how to protect yourself against their wicked ways! Find the witches’ lost creatures around the museum and create your own witch’s ‘familiar’ to take home with you.

Explore Ancient House to discover the Black History hidden within unexpected objects and win a small prize to take home. Part of Black History Month.

Make some creepy Halloween decorations and hear spooky local stories.

Discover a time of witches. Where the simplest suspicion could turn into a witch hunt, hear tales of real life toil as well as those that could come straight from a fairy tale. Create your own familiar fiend just in time for Hallows eve!

Discover a time of witches. Where the simplest suspicion could turn into a witch hunt, hear tales of real life toil as well as those that could come straight from a fairy tale. Create your own familiar fiend just in time for Hallows eve!

As part of our exciting half-term 'Could it be Magic?', Izzy wizzy, the Great Paree, get's busy. Discover our magical history in this special performance. Performance included with museum admission

Join us for a magical half-term! Make Healing Potions and Patronus Charms, and find out about Local Witchcraft with a daily changing programme of holiday activities throughout half-term. Activities run 18-27 October (excluding Sunday)

'Hippos are Native to Norfolk:the Deep History of Norfolk's Nature' Join Dr David Waterhouse (Senior Curator of Natural History for Norfolk Museum Service) to explore the ABC of unusual and exotic sounding animals that lived in the county not so very long ago. Including hippos in Happisburgh, monkeys in Mundesley and bears in Bacton.

Join us for a magical half-term! Make Healing Potions and Patronus Charms, and find out about Local Witchcraft with a daily changing programme of holiday activities throughout half-term. Activities run 18-27 October (excluding Sunday)

As part of our exciting half-term 'Could it be Magic?', Izzy wizzy, the Great Paree, get's busy. Discover our magical history in this special performance. Performance included with museum admission

As part of Norwich Science Festival, and our exhibition, Picturing the Past, come and find out about the science behind early photography, and some of the local pioneers of the photographic processes.

This October half term, Lynn Museum will be hosting an event day to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. Meet costumed characters, learn a new craft and handle historic objects throughout the day.

Explore Ancient House to discover the Black History hidden within unexpected objects and win a small prize to take home. Part of Black History Month.

In the past, people believed that witches were all around them, causing mischief and ill fortune in the world. Learn how to protect yourself against their wicked ways! Find the witches’ lost creatures around the museum and create your own witch’s ‘familiar’ to take home with you.

As part of our exciting half-term 'Could it be Magic?' programme, join our Senior Natural History Curator Dr David Waterhouse to explore the magical and mythical world of animals. Activity included with museum admission.