Events calendar

Join the staff at Lynn Museum to explore the changing landscape around Seahenge. We will first look at the marshland marshland where the timber circle was built 4000 years ago. Archaeologists studying Seahenge have been able to uncover examples the plants and animals of the marshland and some were used in the building of the monument. We will then visit the Holme Dunes nature reserve where Seahenge was discovered in 1998 and look at the important habitats its coastal landscape provides. The event will consist of a video screening and a Q&A session afterwards.

Curator Oliver Bone hosts an illustrated talk on Lynn Museum’s star exhibit from its discovery in 1999, through it’s excavations and the secrets it has revealed, to the installation in its current home in the Seahenge Gallery. Part of the Deepening Series. Free Admission.

An illustrated talk highlighting aspects of Thetford’s Black History including Dr Minns, the first Black mayor in Britain. This event is part of Black History Month.

Join artist Liz Ballad in a practical session to produce your own work in response to Laura Wilson’s Deepening. A list required materials will be sent in advance (these materials are likely to be found in the home). Suitable for 13 years and older.

Join James Dilley, an archaeologist and craftsman who specialises in prehistoric technologies with over 17 years of experience to discover how some the earliest metal tools were produced in prehistoric Britain. James will demonstrate preparing the mould, working the leather bellows on the charcoal fuelled furnace to melt copper and tin and then producing a replica early bronze age axe head. James will also answer audience questions.

An illustrated talk about the Suffragette and Suffragist Movements including the contributions of Princess Sophia and Princess Catherine Duleep Singh. This event is part of Parliament Week.

Amazed by ammonites and itching for ichthyosaurs?! If you are aged 14+ and a fan of fossils come along to Ancient House Theford for three days of fossil fun to discover how they are identified and what they can tell us- then work with other young people and Dr David Waterhouse, Senior Curator of Natural History, to create your own exhibition and activities from our fabulous collection of genuine fossils. This runs over three Saturdays - 7, 14, and 21 November (you will need to come to all three) Free but advanced booking essential: For further information or to book your space email rachel.duffield@norfolk.gov.uk

How to embed a culture of welcome in your school or business for refugees and migrants. Hear about Thetford Town of Sanctuary, work with Migrant Help, how to become a School or Business of Sanctuary and how the museum can help. Free online event. Book your ticket via Art Tickets

Amazed by ammonites and itching for ichthyosaurs?! If you are aged 14+ and a fan of fossils come along to Ancient House Theford for three days of fossil fun to discover how they are identified and what they can tell us- then work with other young people and Dr David Waterhouse, Senior Curator of Natural History, to create your own exhibition and activities from our fabulous collection of genuine fossils. This runs over three Saturdays - 7, 14, and 21 November (you will need to come to all three) Free but advanced booking essential: For further information or to book your space email rachel.duffield@norfolk.gov.uk