The last few weeks the UK has been hit with a heatwave and by the time this weekend came I was feeling a bit of cabin fever from staying inside for so long.
Looking for something to do I found Gressenhall museum not too far away and figured it would be a nice calm day out.
And it was, but it was also a little bit weird...
The museum is split into two parts. Museum of Norfolk life (The county the museum is situated in), and the Workhouse museum. The building is the actual Workhouse used in the 1700s
200 year old trousers
We started with the Norfolk Museum which is full of artifacts and farming machinery. I didn't plan on taking many photos but started noticing strange things, such as these very convincing taxidermy crows.
They were posed incredibly life like and I have no idea why they were in there!
Another very realistically posed animal
At this point I realised there was an audio tour. In most museums it's an added nicety but due to hardly any exhibits having a descriptive plaque I wouldn't recommend coming here and not getting it.
For instance this backlit err item was really pretty. I have no idea what it actually was though.
To be fair there was a bees nest in the brickwork but I got the giggles at this sign
How I look at the end of a work day
Click below to see what was displayed underneath this sign.
Warning: Animal remains
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As we reached the end of the museum there was a wall of reflection where you could make a suggestion on how to help vulnerable people in the world that in the 1700s would have been exploited in the Workhouse. Below are some of my favourite suggestions.
Give them chips and beans
Somebody was obviously hungry
Short but sweet, a comedian in the making
I started to question how old these tags were!
Finally we went outside to view the chapel and some village shops that contained mock items with their old prices. The last picture I took was this shot from the Workhouse blacksmiths.
I wouldn't recommend this Museum to anyone unless they were serious history buffs, and I definitely wouldn't recommend walking around without the audio guide!
Unless you're as immature as me and find it hilarious looking at oddities out of context.
