Lowestoft Maritime Museum

Britain’s most easterly museum, set in the picturesque Sparrow’s Nest Park. Voted Suffolk Museum of the Year 2012.
The museum is a first class modern facility which honours the town’s rich maritime heritage.
Children and adults alike will enjoy a wealth of exhibits, model boats and other artefacts, and stories from the fishing industry which created the town.
Follow the history of Lowestoft from the creation of the port, through the heyday of the fishing industry, and the boatbuilding era, through to the modern day, all told through a variety of pictures, photographs, exhibits and audio/video.

Features include a replica fish market with Prunier Trophy, a wheelhouse, a drifter cabin, a reconstruction of Sir Christopher Cockerell’s workshop (the inventor of the hovercraft), First and Second World War displays and an audio visual room, with short films on various aspects of the town’s history.

Children are well catered for with hands-on activities and trails.

Come and spend a couple of hours and discover some of our past.

Parking available on road, or free car park nearby.

Adults: £2.00 Children (5-16 years): £0.50 Seniors: £1.00

The museum is now open for the season, 10:00 to 5:00pm (last entry 4:00pm).