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You must be able to attend both workshops In the Summer of 2025, Thetford will be celebrating the rich diversity of Thetford's community through a pop up gallery in the centre of town and at the Royal Norfolk Show. The exhibition will showcase work by community members and young people from across the town including artwork, poetry, film and audio projects that explore the identity of the people living and growing up in Thetford. As part of this project, we'll be holding two art workshops at Ancient House Museum for Home Educated families. In these workshops, families will look at the work by the photographer Angelica Dass and use this as inspiration for creating self-portraits. These portraits will be displayed in the pop up gallery in the Summer. Workshops are aimed at children aged 7-11 but older and younger children are welcome too. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join us to knit, natter and enjoy a hot drink and biscuit.

Bring your craft project, enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, and have a mardle.

Join our costumed characters to find out the extraordinary stories behind VE Day. Learn about the role of the armed forces and the code breakers. £4 per child (one accompanying adult is included in a child ticket. If you would like to bring extra accompanying adults, please email ancienthouse@norfolk.gov.uk)

Join our costumed characters to find out the extraordinary stories behind VE Day. Learn about the role of the armed forces and the code breakers. Learn how the local people celebrated VE Day and get hands on with real Second World War objects.

Join Hayley Simmons (Museum Learning Assistant) as she explores the colourful world of fashion and beauty in the Ancient Roman Empire. Where the status of the Roman citizen was paramount and hygiene a necessity. Find out what influenced Roman clothing, by looking at their own words and art, and how they, in turn, influenced the fashions of societies to come through artefacts re-discovered over time.

Join author, Emma Rose Barber to find out more about these curious, quirky and colourful little images (marginalia) in the margins of parchment pages in Psalters, made in East Anglia in the early fourteenth century. They are mixed in with images of wayfarers - those who were often disabled, hungry and poor, those who travelled around by foot hoping to rely on the kindness of strangers to survive. The reasons for the portrayal of these figures is a mystery, but we can have fun guessing.. were they there to ward off evil spirits, to provide protection, or, as part of a shared kinship with the wider animal Kingdom? And were the wayfarers included to remind the owners of these luxuriously illustrated books of their Christian consciences? We will also learn about the de Warenne family - who had priories and castles in places such as Thetford who may have commissioned the manuscripts. Following the publication of her book - Finding the Wayfarer: Physical, Poetic and Spiritual Survival (pub

Calling all budding palaeontologists! Head to Ancient House to handle real fossils, make some palaeontologist pudding and try your hand at a range of dinosaur crafts.

Join Jo Carruth, Principal Post-Excavation Manager, Cotswold Archaeology, Suffolk to find out about the latest archaeological find from the excavations at RAF Lakenheath.