Families

The Long Shop Museum has many fun things for families to enjoy exploring and doing together.

Discover the 'tiny-house' that is our living-van.
Find out how deep Suffolk's deepest well is.
Find out about how the Victorian's fought fires!
Experience the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian industry on our live steam days.
Learn how farming was changed by industry and invention, and how it effected the lives of the local people.
Take a selfie in front of one (or all) of our steam engines and steam loco.
Follow our eye-spy, or Explorer's Passport museum trails and earn a prize!
Draw your favourite museum object, or make a rubbing of a steam engine.
Enjoy our enclosed garden with a safe play space, and tables on which to spread your picnic.

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The Long Shop Museum is committed to attracting young people and families to Museums. We are keen supporters of the national 'Kids in Museums' manifesto, and are constantly working to make our museum more family friendly.

The Museum is also proud to be a Children’s University Learning Destination. Bring along your Children's University passport and try one of our Explorer activities.

"What a little gem, visited with a 9 and a 7 year old. There was so much to see, vehicles and machinery built by the company through the ages, with video screens showing how they work, a comprehensive exhibition on how they were designed and the tools and the people who built them. A display about the Garrett family, especially the women who helped shape the world we live in. The kids were given sheets with things to do, things to discover learning about science and engineering without realising, will definitely return."
Richard
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"Fantastic museum. Real eye-opener of the history of a great engineering company and in the context if 2 centuries of social history. Brilliant volunteers have created a superb and absorbing museum, for adults and children alike. Well recommended."
Phillip
Google Review