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Travel back in time to the wealthy port town of Medieval Lynn as you meet costumed characters, handle real artefacts, and find out about the journeys people made. Activities run between 10am-12.30pm and 1.30-4pm, with a break for lunch.

Join our drop in automaton workshop and learn how to create moving works of art from a curious box of components.

Use your archaeological skills to explore a recreated archaeological excavation. Handle real historical artefacts and meet Viking costumed characters. Part of The Brecks Outdoor Festival.

To mark the 80th anniversary year of VE and VJ Day, the whole family are invited to get hands on with history at Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse's special bank holiday event. Step into this historic moment with help of costumed characters, immersive storytelling and activities. Enjoy family-friendly activities, and see Station 366 perform American swing songs from the period, and a special performance of Letters from the Land. Learn what was really going on for local folks in 1945, and explore cutting edge research into people's experiences, with a poetry trail, talks and screenings from local East Anglian partners including the American Library and the Suffolk Women's Land Army Memorial Trust.

Fossils Fossils Fossils Join us for a day of family friendly fossil handling and advice on searching for them along the coast.

Join us at 11am and 2pm for a free guided tour of the museum by our fabulous Visitor Team, focusing on our glorious Golden Mile Available on a first come first served basis

Discover the secrets of Seahenge, the Bronze Age timber circle from Holme beach. Learn about how people lived in the Bronze Age, the tools they used, and how the mysterious circle came to be. Activities run between 10am-12.30pm and 1.30-4pm, with a break for lunch.

Join us to celebrate all things HERRING as the Summer holidays draw to an end.

King's Lynn has a set of parks in its town centre generally described as The Walks, a grade II listed park covering 17 hectares. However, that description only refers to a section of what is collectively one of the largest town centre parks in the country. Hear more about how the parks came into being and the hidden secrets that lie within with Town Guide Gary Walker.