Town House Museum Of Lynn Life

Located in King’s Lynn, the Town House Museum offers visitors a look into the social history and domestic life of the town’s merchants, families, and traders starting with medieval times and going through the decades and centuries up to the 1950’s.  Visitors can try brass rubbing in the Medieval Room and take home a unique souvenir.  The 17th Century room contains a reconstructed fireplace and displays objects that were used on an everyday basis throughout the town’s siege during the English Civil War.

There is a Victorian nursery in the museum that contains toys and a doll’s house from that period, children are welcome to try them out and play the games that are available.  The kitchen below is also Victorian and shows the everyday items used by the house cook and staff.  A garden with a privvy (outside toilet) completes the setting.  Other exhibits include an Edwardian school desk complete with slate and chalk, displays about life in Lynn during the World Wars, and an original 1950’s television that sits in a fifties living room.

The Town House Museum of Lynn Life is located on Queen Street in historic Old Lynn near the site of the Saturday Market and St. Margaret’s Church.  There is a herb garden and a souvenir shop on the premises.  The ground floor of the museum is the only one that is wheelchair accessible, but visitors with disabilities that can get around with assistance can bring a companion for free.  Assistance dogs are welcome.  Admission is £3.00 for adult, £2.50 for disabled visitors, over 60s and under 4 free and older children £1.65.  It’s open from Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm February to April, 10am to 5pm Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm and then from 2pm to 5pm on Sundays, and Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm in October.  The museum is closed from November 3 through February 13.