The Long Shop Museum — Attraction in East Suffolk

What a lovely group of people working at the Long Shop Museum. We took our 4 year old daughter and eight year old son to visit. Although Like most children a Museum is not their first choice of days out they did still enjoy themselves. This might be a weird comment but it is a genuine compliment for the staff, the toilets were clean and wel equipped and actually smelt nice, this is so rare these days so who ever is keeping these in good order , thank you. The only additional thing would be more souvenirs for younger children, maybe there is less demand for this so I'm not judging. Parking was easy and free, admission was fair, snacks & drinks available. Small garden play area, colouring sheets, brass rubbings, plastic mechano, cogs and chains, puzzles. Personal touch places like this are so much more genuine than typical modern places designed just to extort money from you and make you hate poorly parented children (AKA soft play indoor type venues). For olde children it would be great for showing engineering...

Took my 92 year old Dad around this afternoon for the end of season steam up - he greatly enjoyed it. He's fairly spry but for anybody with an elder just beware there are steps around, some uneven ground in the yards and the ladder to the gallery of the iconic Long Shop is really quite steep but worth the effort and there are chairs to sit on when you get to the top!

Long Shop Museum replied: their comment suggested my father had struggled and that I was perhaps critical of their facilities. What I tried to convey was that the surroundings are typical of what you would expect of a Victorian factory (and is genuinely so) and the review was intended to be informative for folks - not to be off-putting - please go and you will have a very warm welcome and a great time learning about a key player in the Victorian industrialisation of...

Industrial museum with local history exhibits and connections to steam heritage.

The Long Shop itself - an unmodernised early 19thC galleried industrial workshop - is the heart of the museum. The wood and iron framed shed, housing a static steam engine and multiple displays, bears the mark of two hundred years of craftsmanship. It's a fantastic sight.

Restoration projects are always going on. Currently, a trolleybus originally made on site and rescued from somewhere, is being re-built. There are also some historic working steam traction engines, including a roller and a rare Suffolk Punch road locomotive.

An annual Steampunk event in the summer is always a good day, and there is a programme of live steam days and events...