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Our multisensory Snaplings sessions investigate a different theme inspired by our museum collections each month. Each session follows the pace of our tiny explorers, providing plenty of time and space for little ones to follow their interests and make their own discoveries! Each child ticket will allow you to book one adult ticket. All tickets include museum entry for the whole day. The location of Snaplings can vary within the museum, a member of the Learning Team will be at the entrance to greet you and take you to the space.

Snapdragons sessions (for 2-4s) build on the multisensory approach of Snaplings (for 0-2s), getting us moving around the galleries to bring in further opportunities for chatting, investigation and shared discovery. Each session will see us getting stuck in and hands on as we explore the different treasures the museum has to offer! Each child ticket will allow you to book one adult ticket. All tickets include museum entry for the whole day. The location of Snapdragons can vary within the museum, but a member of the Learning Team will be at the entrance to greet you and take you to the space.

A series of conversations in the exhibition SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling with curator Amanda Geitner. On Saturday 14 September Amanda will be joined by Jonathan P Watts. Jonathan is an artist, writer and occasional curator based in Norwich. With Ben Brett he co-runs the artist-led contemporary art gallery Josey. Jonathan is a Tutor (Research) in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London and is doing a PhD at Norwich University of the Arts on EASTinternational, 1991 - 2009. Tickets include admission to the museum. Image credit: Roger Ackling, Voewood 2011 - 2012, Sunlight on wood, © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art, London.

'Gu'un the fish n' that' A sound installation by Beverley Carruthers Enjoy a stunning soundscape in our new digital Smoke House Galley, featuring the voices of the fisher girls that followed the herring fleet up and down the East coast of the UK.

A series of conversations in the exhibition SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling with curator Amanda Geitner. On Saturday 21 September Amanda will be joined by Dean Hughes. Dean is an artist and teacher. He attended Chelsea College of Art and Design between 1993 and 1996, where he was taught by Roger Ackling. He has taught widely in the UK: he was previously Head of the School of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Fine Art, Northumbria University. He has made solo exhibitions with, among others, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, and Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem. Tickets include admission to the museum. Image credit: Roger Ackling, Voewood 2011 - 2012, Sunlight on wood, © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art, London.

A Storytelling Show with Music by Jess Morgan. 37 year old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence. Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds - kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes. The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.

See 'horse power' in action, from heavy horses and steam through to the early petrol engine. Watch demonstrations of heavy horses work the land using heritage farming equipment and techniques, of our local farrier, and of traditional harness making in Front Barn, and meet our own magnificent Suffolk horses - often nicknamed Suffolk Punches! Catch demonstrations of the 1899 Panhard car, see the 1922 Farmers Foundry engine in steam, visit the 1930s Farmhouse and join in the fun by making a peg horse to take home with Art Attack (1-4pm). Hear from the Suffolk Horse Society and Rare Breeds Survival Trust, try your hand at braiding, have a hobby horse race - and even get a go at picking your own potatoes! (Weather permitting)

Head down to Union Farm to meet Mrs Beech and learn more about the 1930s Farmhouse. She might need some help with chores, or simply to have a natter whilst getting on with the jobs of the day - we know she'll be pleased to see you! Mrs Beech's to-do list changes from month to month with the seasons, so there will always be something new cooking on the stove, being stirred up, or needing to be made, moved or mended. Please check back throughout the year for any updates on upcoming sessions; dates are subject to volunteer availability: 9 June (Open Farm Sunday) 14 July 4 August 25 August (Girlguiding 1940s Camp) 22 September (Horse Power! Heavy Horse Day) 13 October (Apple Day)

The lead speaker will be Norfolk-based writer and director Ivan Cutting, former Artistic Director of Eastern Angles. Joined by freelance theatre producer Karen Goddard, this free event will focus on the joys and challenges of turning historical material into engaging theatre. Taking place on Thursday 26th September from 2pm - 3.30pm this fascinating insight will cover Ivan's forty-year career writing, directing and producing plays inspired by East Anglia's places, people and history. These productions have included hundreds of characters ranging from Margaret Catchpole and Boudicca to Basil Brown, and from Raedwald to George Orwell. Themes have varied too including Maria Marten and the murder in the Red Barn, the 1953 floods, the herring girls of Lowestoft and GI brides. In the past, Ivan often used live folk music and his own recorded interviews with East Anglian people as the basis for his work creating documentary-style plays, something that is still popular today.