Cromer Museum — Attraction in North Norfolk

We concided our visit with a Punch & Judy show - not enough of this around nowadays. Very well done it was too, pulling all the children and some adults into the farce. The museum consists of a row of Victorian house and outbuildings some of which remain the way they were in that era. A washer woman shows and involves the children in a washing demonstration involving a posser, blue and mangle. Although we missed it, there is a demonstration of the working kitchen. You can also see a Victorian bedroom and living room. There is also a 'treasure hunt' where children can find clues about the woolly mammoth that was excavated nearby. There is plenty to see - don't miss the old photographs from a local photographer. Get out of the...

Interesting little local history museum right next to the church. Entered through the gift shop, admission was £3.90, there's a lift and toilets in the courtyard. One of the outhouses has been converted into a small museum of the region's prehistoric history with fossils, Stone Age artefacts and fascinating info panels. Was particularly impressed with the cast of a human footprint made 850,000 years ago and the bones of a giant mammoth. In the main museum in the cottage I enjoyed reading about local shipwrecks, a lost village and the lives of fishing families in bygone centuries. There's a Victorian front room and bedroom and also a gallery of portrait photography. Took me about an hour to see it all, well worth the small...

I took in a mammoth bone of which I found and spoke to a lovely lady, of whom took a picture and said curator would be in touch to ID it. It’s quite large and been confirmed it’s probably part of vertebrae or is the shoulder blade of a mammoth, an excellent find apparently. You would think MUSEUM of this kind would certainly be interested! I never heard , so I called the lady and was told the curator was leaving his post, but would chase it, never heard a thing! Very...