Stowmarket's Food Museum gets £350,000 in lottery cash
The attraction will use the cash for renovations and future projects
A Suffolk museum has secured a grant of over £350,000 to help pay for major renovation work and future exhibits.
Stowmarket's Food Museum says it will invest the cash, which has come from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, into a multi-year project called The Kitchen Project.
Over the next 18 months architects will survey the site and come up with a plan for major changes to some of the buildings on the 84-acre attaction.
Among the ideas is the reinstallation of the medieval timber-framed ‘Edgar’s Farmhouse’, an exhibit showing a Victorian-era factory, two huts used in the Second World War and work to the Grade II listed Medieval Barn.
The museum also says it wants to create an 'aims to create an interactive display of historical kitchens with food from different eras.'
One of the key exhibits over the next year will be one looking at school dinners over the year, in collaboration with Museum of the Home in East London and the Quadram Institute in Norwich.