Lowestoft Maritime Museum
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Overview
Housed in a gorgeous flint cottage which, according to the plaque above the door, was restored in 1828, this museum was founded in 1958 by a group of enthusiasts and has steadily expanded. The cottage, the museum’s permanent home, has since been sympathetically extended to make space for all the exhibits. It focuses on maritime history: themed exhibits trace the history of Lowestoft and its connections with the sea, displaying ancient and modern fishing boats, commercial boats, fishing gear, shipwrights’ tools, and lifeboats, a wheelhouse, steam drifter cabin and a fish market, with models, charts and other memorabilia. It has a new audio-visual room and an art gallery too.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: Open Good Fri-Oct, daily 10-5 (last admission 4)
- Facilities
- Parking onsite
- Parking nearby
- Children
About the area
Suffolk is Constable country, where the county’s crumbling, time-ravaged coastline spreads itself under wide skies to convey a wonderful sense of remoteness and solitude. Highly evocative and atmospheric, this is where rivers wind lazily to the sea and notorious 18th-century smugglers hid from the excise men.
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