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Bygones Museum at Holkham

Bygones Museum at Holkham Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk NR23 1AB
01328 710227
enquiries@holkham.co.uk
www.holkham.co.uk

A vast collection of social, domestic and agricultural memorabilia. Over 4000 fascinating exhibits ranging from mechanical toys and vintage cars to massive steam engines dating from the Victorian period to the mid-20th century. Inlcuded is a History of Farming Exhibition, designed to help visitors understand how a great estate such as Holkham works and has evolved. Find out about Coke of Norfolk and his role in the 18th century Agricultural Revolution.

Prices

Holkham Hall, Bygones Museum and Walled Gardens
Adult: £12.00 Child (5-16 years inc): £6.00
Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children 5-16 years inc): £33.00

Bygones Museum and Walled Gardens
Adult: £7.00 Child (5-16 years inc): £3.50
Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children 5-16 years inc): £19.00

Opening
Museum open 10am – 5pm daily, 25th March – 31st October 2013

Facilities

  • Parking
  • Shop, cafe
  • Toilets (toilets in park accessible to wheelchair users)
  • Full access to site

Cromer Museum

Cromer Museum East Cottages, Tucker Street, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9HB
Telephone: 01263 513543
Email: cromer.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
Website: www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Stand in the yard outside a row of fishermen's cottages and imagine what life might have been like one hundred years ago. Discover a lost world lit by gaslight. A world of steam railways; bathing machines and the beautiful, but lonely Empress of Austria. In the new geology gallery find out about the huge creatures that roamed this landscape before humans even existed! The mighty West Runton Elephant, taller than a house and the fearsome Mosasaur, a marine reptile with daggers for teeth!

Prices
Adult £3.50, Concession £2.90, Young Person (4-16) £2.00, Under 4s free.

Opening
March-October open Monday-Friday 10-4pm, Saturday 12noon-4pm & Sunday 1-4pm
November-February open Monday-Friday 10-4pm & Saturday 12noon-4pm

Facilities

  • Shop
  • Full access to site
  • Toilets (accessible to wheelchair users)

Hillside Animal and Shire Horse Sanctuary

Hillside Animal and Shire Horse Sanctuary West Runton, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9QH
01603 736200 
contact@hillside.org.uk 
www.hillside.org.uk

Heavy horses, ponies and donkeys, also sheep, pigs, rabbits, ducks, hens, goats and many more rescued animals in their home in the beautiful North Norfolk countryside. Museum with extensive collection of carts, wagons and farm machinery, video room, picnic & activity areas.

Prices
Adults £5.95, Senior Citizens £4.95, Children (up to 16 years old) £3.95, Children under 3 free, Family Ticket (2 Adults + 2 Children) £18. Dogs welcome on a lead

Opening
5 April - 1 November, 10-5pm.
April - May closed Fridays & Saturdays (open Good Friday and Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday).
June - August closed Saturdays only.
September - November closed Fridays and Saturdays

Facilities

  • Cafe, shop
  • Free parking
  • Toilets (accessible to wheelchair users)
  • Full access to site


Mundesley Maritime Museum

Mundesley Maritime Museum Beach Road, Mundesley, Norfolk, NR11 8BG.
Telephone: 01263 720879

Situated in the former Coastguard lookout, the museum exhibits include the village past and present; its maritime history; lifeboat activity from 1811; shipwrecks; fishing; trade; the rise and fall of the railway 1898-1964; the Mundesley Minefield. The first floor is reinstated as a coastguard lookout of the 1930/1940s with powerful binoculars for visitors to use. Coastwatch has been permitted the use of the lookout to provide a visual watch, which includes radar.

Prices
Adults 50p, Disabled and accompanied children free.

Opening
Open Easter weekend and from 1 May to 30th September, 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm daily.

Facilities

  • Wheelchair access to the ground floor only.


Sheringham Museum

Sheringham Museum The Mo: Sheringham Museum, Lifeboat Plain, Sheringham, Norfolk, NR26 8BG
Tel: 01263 824482 or email enquires@sheringhammuseum.co.uk
http://www.sheringhammuseum.co.uk/ 
We are also on Facebook!

Step inside stunning new galleries and walk amongst Sheringham's extraordinary historic fleet of lifeboats and fishing boats. Here you will find the story of Sheringham and its proud, brave and independent people.

Opening
1st Feb- 31st Oct . Tues to Sat 10am to 4.30 pm, Sunday, midday to 4pm.

Prices
Adults £3.50, Concessions £3.00, Children (5-16) £1.50, under 5's free. Groups of 10+ £2.50. Pre-booked school groups free entry.

Facilities

  • Giftshop (selling souvenirs from pocket money treats to works by local artists and craftspeople)
  • Year round events and activities (visit our website, Facebook page or telephone us for more details)
  • Toilet (accessible to wheelchair users)
  • Sheringham Archive (Local and family historians welcome. Please telephone to book ahead; at least 48 hours notice is required)
     


 

Stalham Firehouse Museum

Stalham Firehouse Museum Corner of churchyard, High Street, Stalham, Norfolk NR12 9BB
01692 582391

A tiny building housing the second oldest firehouse in the country. Now with many old photographs and artefacts and an original 1902 horse drawn fire engine.

Prices
Free admission - donations welcome
 

Opening
Open Easter - 30 September, every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10-12am & 2-4pm.
Can be opened at any other time within 10 minutes of a phone call to 01692 582391.

Facilities

  • Full access to site


Toad Hole Cottage

Toad Hole Cottage How Hill, Ludham, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR29 5PG
01692 678763
toadholeinfo@broads-authority.gov.uk
www.broads-authority.gov.uk 

Small eighteenth century cottage set in the beautiful How Hill nature reserve, showing home and working life on the marshes about a hundred years ago.  Nature trail walks and boat trips available.

Opening
1 April - 31 May and  1 October - 1 November, Monday - Friday 10.30-1pm and 1.30-5pm, Saturday -Sunday 10.30-5pm.
1 June - 30 September, open Monday - Sunday 9.30-6pm.

Prices
Free admission to Cottage; charge for nature trail walks and boat trips.

Facilities

  • Free parking
  • Toilets (accessible to wheelchair users)
  • Full access to site


Walsingham Shirehall Museum

Walsingham Shirehall Museum Common Place, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6BP
01328 820510 
walsingham.museum@farmline.com

Originally part of the outer precinct of the Priory, the Quarter Sessions were established here in the mid-eighteenth century.  The courthouse was closed in 1970 and is now a hands-on museum (put yourself in the dock or be the judge – the lock up is already occupied!).
The museum has a comprehensive display on Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage since 1061, as well as local artefacts and photographs.  

Prices
Adults £3, Concessions and Children £2 (includes entry to Abbey Grounds)

Opening
Open 31 January - 31 October, Monday - Sunday 10-4pm.

Facilities

  • Shop
  • Toilets (accessible to wheelchair users)
  • Restricted access to site