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Thursday August 14
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
ACTON
All Saints’ Church, art exhibition and sale by local artists, Aug 23-Sept 7, 11am-4pm, free admission.
BARDWELL
Blackwater Craft Gallery, open Thur-Sat or by appt, 10am-6pm. 01359 250858.
BURY ST EDMUNDS
Library coffee shop, artwork exhibition by Jean Perrett and Friends, to Aug 28.
Art Gallery, Market Cross, The Beguiling, fairytales, witchcraft, myth and folklore, to Sept 6. 01284 762081.
Moyse’s Hall Museum, open 10am-5pm, St Edmundsbury residents free. Guided tours Tue/Thur/ Sun, 2pm. Guided tour of market area starts outside museum Fri, 11am, £3 (includes musuem entry). Children’s holiday workshop: Who Am I?, Aug 22, 11am, £6. Booking essential, 01284 706183.
Wildwood Gallery, open Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-4.30pm. 01284 762081.
Gibraltar Barracks, Suffolk Regiment Museum, open first Wed monthly, 9.30am-3.30pm, and first Sun in Aug/Sept.
BUXHALL
Granary Crafts, Brook Farm, museum of household and agricultural bygones, tea room, open Thur-Sun and bank hols, 10.30am-5pm, free admission. 01449 736363.
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum, Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round, to Sept 7. Robert Hills watercolours, to Sept 7. On The Shoulders of Giants, photographic portraits from the University of Cambridge, to Sept 28. Christopher Le Brun etchings, to Sept 28. Open Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Mon noon-5pm. 01223 332900.
Primavera, local studio artists including Sarah Palmer, to end Aug, open Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm.
CAVENDISH
Village Green, open air exhibition for local artists with paintings, photography, mixed media and textile art, Aug 30, 10am-5pm.
COLCHESTER
Castle Museum, Guardians to the King, terracotta treasures from ancient China, to Nov 2.
Mercury Theatre’s Digby Gallery, Colchester Institute graduates, Aug 19-Sept 6, open Mon-Sat, 10am-8pm, free entry.
COTTON
Mechanical Music Museum, Sun, 2.30-5.30pm. £4 adults, £1 children.
ELY
Old Fire Engine House, paintings by Ron Nix, to Aug 31, open Mon-Fri 10.30am-10.30pm, Sat 10.30am-5.30pm, Sun 2.30-5.30pm, closed bank hols.
Museum, Star objects from museum collection, to November, open daily 10.30am-5pm (1-5pm Sun).
HADDENHAM
Haddenham Galleries, summer exhibition to Aug 21, open Tue-Fri 10am-1pm and 2-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 11am-5pm, adm free.
HALESWORTH
The Cut Arts Centre, exhibition of work by Debbie Ayles, to Sept 6. 01985 873285.
HARLESTON
Harleston Bookshop, Old Market Place, watercolour paintings by students of John Lidzey, to Sept 13, Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm.
HORSEHEATH
Limberhurst Arts Centre, open Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 11am-4pm or by appt.
IPSWICH
John Russell Gallery, Summer with the Royal College of Art, mixed media, to Sept 13. Open Mon-Sat, 9.30am-5pm. 01473 212051.
Ipswich Museum, Chinese Magic, Aug 14/15, noon, free. Circus Skills Workshops, Aug 14/15, £1.50, book on 01473 433554.
IXWORTH
Keeper’s Lodge, mixed paintings. 01359 233271, by appt.
Lime Tree Gallery, Hall Street, Caribbean Connections exhibition, gallery open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, www.limetreegallery.com
LONG THURLOW
Thurlow Gallery, for opening times, call 01359 259332 or visit www.thurlowgallery.co.uk
MILDENHALL
Mildenhall Museum, Mildenhall Treasure, fen, Breckland, bygones, airfield history. Open Wed/Thur/Sat 11am-4.30pm, Fri 10.30am-4.30pm. 01638 716970.
NARBOROUGH
Narborough Hall, exhibition by John Piper, to Aug 31, open Sun-Wed, 11am-5pm, adults £3.50, concessions £2, children free.
NORWICH
Castle, The people’s choice, 100 paintings from Norwich Castle collections, until Aug 31.
POLSTEAD
Martens Lane, 11th Polstead exhibition by local artists, Aug 23-25, 10am-5pm, adults £1, children free, refreshments, bar.
ROUGHAM
Control Tower, World War Two museum open every Sunday to Oct 26, 11am-4pm, free entry.
SHOTLEY
Marina, HMS Ganges Museum, Ship and Shorebase, Sat/Sun/bank holidays, 11am-4.30pm.
SUDBURY
Sudbury Museum & Heritage Centre, open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-2.45pm.
Gainsborough’s House, 01787 372958. John Bellany and Thomas Gainsborough, to Sept 20. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, also children’s art workshop, Aug 26, family and friends portrait workshop, Aug 14, 1pm, £2.50, children’s guided tour and gallery sketching, Aug 21, 1pm, £2.50, children’s costumed figure drawing, Aug 28, 1pm, £3.
THETFORD
Ancient House, Thetford Treasure from the British Museum, to Dec 13.
WEST STOW
Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village, open daily 10am-5pm (last entry 4pm). Saxon Family Life, Aug 23-25, £6 adults/£5children/ concessions/£17.50 families.
