Author: Simon Garrett

  • Stewards outing

    On Sunday 30th April, the Museum ran our annual outing for Stewards and volunteers. This year it was rather a busman’s holiday: a visit to Woodbridge Museum, so we could see how they do it. We were all envious of their spacious new premises!

  • The Museum even better than the Castle itself?

    From The Times today, Travel Section, an Article on visiting Suffolk by Sarah Baxter: “…walking around the well-preserved 12th-century Framlingham Castle walls (£12.50pp; English Heritage).  Mary Tudor was staying here when she heard she’d been proclaimed England’s first queen.  Impressive, though in some ways I preferred the village museum in the castle’s poorhouse, which records…

  • Your Museum needs you!

    Would you like to volunteer for a couple of hours a week over the summer? If so, we’d love you to join us. The Lanman Museum, based in Framlingham Castle, is looking for Stewards to be in the Museum while lots of friendly and interesting visitors are looking at our displays. If you like meeting…

  • Updates to the Museum and website

    We have been very busy in the museum this year. New exhibits on the Clyde Bell and Queen Mary have been put up and many of the cabinets have been refurbished. This refurbishment is an on-going process. We have recently received a fascinating collection of WW2 artefacts relating to the war time experience of a…