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Strumpshaw Old Hall, Low Road, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, NR13 4HR
Many steam engines, beam engines, mechanical organs, narrow gauge railway and a working toy train for children. There is also a cafe, gift shop, picnic area and free parking.
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ
The Sainsbury Centre is an inspirational public art museum where you can see outstanding world art for free.
- Rail station: Norwich
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
- Rail station: Manningtree (10 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
South Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2RQ
Great Yarmouth Row Houses: Experience the sights and sounds of yesterday's Great Yarmouth. Visit these unique and vividly presented houses, one set in 1870 and the other in 1942, just before the incendiary bombing.
- Rail station: Great Yarmouth
296 Norton Way South, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 1SU
The First Garden City Heritage Museum tells the story of the Garden City Movement from its origins to the present day. It is housed in a beautiful and unique building designed in 1907 by the architect Barry Parker.
- Rail station: Letchworth
- Guided tour(s)
Station Road, Lower Stondon, Henlow, Bedfordshire, SG16 6JN
Largest private collection in UK, which includes cars and motorbikes - covering 100 years of motoring.
- Rail station: Hitchin (4 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
Weybourne Military Camp, Weybourne, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 7EG
The Muckleburgh Military Collection is Norfolk's largest working Museum of military vehicles including tanks, guns & a large range of other weapons. It is located at Weybourne Military Camp which can trace its history back to 1588.
- Rail station: Weybourne (1 mile)
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RB
The museum contains fascinating Egyptian, Greek, Roman and other antiquities.
- Rail station: Cambridge (1 mile)
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1JY
Discover a top secret world of excitement, experiments and explosions at the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey. A fascinating, hands-on guide to gunpowder, big bangs, weapons and warfare, too.
- Rail station: Waltham Cross
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
5 Lower King Street, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5AL
A local history museum with a collection spanning the Stone Age to the present, a fine collection of pictures by local artists & ceramics collection.
- Rail station: Royston
- Parking: free
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6EE
The Foundation is a picturesque 70-acre estate, the former home of world-famous artist Henry Moore. Visitors can tour the sculpture gardens, house, studios and galleries.
- Rail station: Bishop's Stortford (6 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Guided tour(s)
Oaklands Park, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9AQ
Local and social history from prehistory to present day; fine and decorative arts (ceramics, glass); coins; natural history (geology, animals, live beehive). Exhibitions and events. Set in park with children's play area.
- Rail station: Chelmsford (1 mile)
- Parking: free
Leman House, Ballygate, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 7ND
Leman House is a Grade 1 listed building, the museum houses a range of exhibits relating to Beccles, its surrounding villages and countryside, their industries, social life, health care and wildlife.
- Rail station: Beccles
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Disabled access
105 Point Road, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 7TD
Houses a collection of Eastern National buses and coaches and various other commercial vehicles from the period 1944-1981. Vehicles can be seen undergoing restoration and in restored condition.
- Rail station: South Benfleet (2 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
The Moot Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5DS
A 16thC town hall which is a listed ancient building with a museum displaying items of local interest such as photographs and artefacts depicting life in Aldeburgh.
- Guided tour(s)
Ferry Road, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6RY
The old Cromer lifeboat station transported by sea to Southwold. Restored and now houses the old Southwold lifeboat. 115 years old, now almost fully restored to its former glory.
- Rail station: Darsham (4 miles)
- Parking: with charge
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
High Street, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 9JJ
The museum was established in the late 1970s with a particular objective to preserve research of the town and district.
- Rail station: March (1 mile)
- Free entry
- Disabled access
- Guided tour(s)
Bush Hall Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9 5PD
Scenic working watermill, and family friendly museum with art and local history exhibitions. Events and activities all year.
- Rail station: Hatfield Station (1 mile)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Guided tour(s)

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