Events

Details of events where the Friends of Gressenhall will running activities or will just be available to have a chat about membership or volunteering.

On the Norfolk Museums Service website

Earth Day - Friday 11 April 2025

At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum  10:00 - 16:00 

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event.  Do come and say 'hello'.  

There will be a competition to raise money for the Friends: Guess the square where you think the two Suffolk horses are hiding and you could win a voucher to visit the Thursford Collection or a voucher for Family entry for Gressenhall.  Just £1 a guess*.

Photo of Suffolk heavy horses pulling a farm implement.
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Museum Service Activities

Enjoy crafting, mapping and making with plenty of activity stations across the museum. Meet some experts helping wildlife to thrive, including Norfolk Wildlife Trust, talk: Wildlife and the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Learn more aboout what the Northgate Orchard Committee, and much more.

For full details of the event, see the Norfolk Museums Service website.

On the Norfolk Museums Service website

Dereham Day - Saturday 10 May 2025

At Neatherd High School, Dereham NR20 3AX

Friends of Gressenhall logo

Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event.  Do come and say 'hello'.  

There will be a competition to raise money for the Friends: Guess the square where you think the two Suffolk horses are hiding and you could win a voucher to visit the Thursford Collection or a voucher for Family entry for Gressenhall.  Just £1 a guess*.

Buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)

Free to do: Make flower pots and plant sunflower seeds

Photo of a sunflower
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Museum Service Activities

Will be available on the Museum's website

Spring Fairy Tale - Wednesday 28 May 2025

At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event where we will be selling handmade crafts, jewellery, crochet keyrings and more, to raise money for the Museum.  Do come and say 'hello'.  

Buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)

A drawing of a child wearing a wizards hat and reading a book that is glowing with magic.
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Museum Service Activities

An event aimed at young families/early years children, inspired by Learning’s Once Upon a Time sessions with activities and crafts across site. 

Will be available on the Museum's website

Open Farm Sunday - Sunday 8 June 2025

Free Entry at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Friends of Gressenhall will have a stall at this event where we will be selling handmade crafts, jewellery, rare breed crochet keyrings and more. 

Win a plant on the Plant tombola or buy raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Draw date: 24 August 2024)

Do come and say 'hello'.  

A child looking at a male turkey (also known as a stag)
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Museum Service Activities

Free entry to the site as part of the national LEAF Open Farm Sunday initiative.

Will be available on the Museum's website

Home Front Stories: Norfolk in 1945 - Sunday 24 August 2025

At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Buy Raffle tickets for our Summer Raffle. Lots of brilliant prizes to be won (Today is the draw day)!

Old monochrome photo (1940s) of a Land Girl on a tractor
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Museum Service Activities

Bank holiday event focused on what was going on in Norfolk in 1945, e.g. domestic experiences, WLA, ARP, Home Guard, American forces in residence – timed to coincide with 2025’s VE & VJ Day anniversaries. 

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flyover TBC.

Will be available on the Museum's website

Heritage Open Day and Friends of Gressenhall 50th Anniversary - Sunday 21 September 2025

Free entry at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

We will be running a soft toy tombola, but the whole site will be open to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. 

Exact details to follow, but if you are a Friend, or have been a Friend, it is not one to miss! 

Friends of Gressenhall logo - 50th anniversary variant
Gressenhall Museum logo (Norfolk MUseums Service)

Museum Service Activities

Free entry to the site as part of the HOD festival nationwide – and in celebration of the Friends of Gressenhall’s 50th anniversary, to the day! 

Volunteer teams will be showcasing the skills and expertise they use throughout the year at the Museum.  Horses will be working and select visiting partners will join us to celebrate keeping heritage open.

Will be available on the Museum's website

Apple Day - Sunday 12 October 2025

At Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum

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Friends of Gressenhall Activities

Buy plants (some which come from the Museum gardens) and crafts made by our volunteers.

Photo of a basket of apples surrounded by more apples.
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Museum Service Activities

Autumn event running since 1991, celebrating heritage fruit, local Norfolk food, farming, folk practices, crafts and traditional living.

Will be available on the Museum's website

* The Suffolk Horse competition closing date is 10 May 2025 at the Dereham Day event.