Museum on the Move: Inspiring Every Generation

12 August 2025

On Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August, Ipswich Museum will be popping up at the Buttermarket Centre in Ipswich to present Museum on the Move: Inspiring Every Generation, running from 10am – 3pm in Unit 5, next to TK Maxx.

This free, family-friendly event will introduce the eight new gallery themes for Ipswich Museum ahead of its reopening. You’ll be able to explore and handle objects from our collections related to each theme, see the layout plans for the new spaces, take part in a variety of interactive activities for all ages, and chat with museum staff.

Interactive activities include:

  • Cleaning objects that will go back on display at Ipswich Museum (Thursday 21 only)
  • Using USB microscopes to get a closer look
  • Learning how fossils are formed by colouring and cutting out your own ammonite
  • Steppe Mammoth Mini-Dig: Become a palaeontologist
  • Paper butterflies: Cut and colour your own specimen to take home
  • Card game: Match the streets of Ipswich using artist William John Legget’s paintings
  • And more!

Ipswich Museum’s eight new gallery themes are:

  • Communities
  • Create
  • Discoveries
  • Journeys
  • Stories
  • Worlds
  • Wonders
  • Habitats

Help us keep the excitement for the Ipswich Museum reopening alive – drop in for this fun-filled event!

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