The Wherry Hotel
✓ Waterfront setting beside Oulton Broad with views of passing boats
🏖️ 1.65 miles from Lowestoft (South of Claremont Pier) (Good water quality)
Lowestoft
Museums & Galleries · Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft Museum
📍 NR33 9JR
Photo: Adrian S Pye (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Important collection of 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain
- Displays of locally found fossils and early man artefacts
- Pakefield Man remains dating back 700,000 years
- Exhibits on HMS Lowestoft, HMS Mantis and the fishing port
- Victorian room setting with domestic items on display
Lowestoft Museum is housed in Broad House, a grade II listed building dating from 1685, set within Nicholas Everitt Park in Oulton Broad. Run by local volunteers and donation funded, it tells the story of the area through an important collection of 18th-century Lowestoft Porcelain, local fossils, Pakefield Man artefacts dating back 700,000 years, Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds, and exhibits on HMS Lowestoft, HMS Mantis and the town's fishing heritage. It's open daily 13:00–16:00, with longer Thursday hours from April to October, and suits families, history enthusiasts and school groups, though there are no toilets inside. Oulton Broad South station is just 0.3 miles away, and with 102 bookable places to stay within 5 miles on BritStays, it makes an easy addition to a visit to the area.
Practical details
- Open
- 13:00–16:00 daily, 11:00–16:00 Thursdays, April to October
- Booking
- Can open for groups outside normal hours by special arrangement
- Accessibility
- No toilet facilities inside, but public toilets are nearby
- Best for
- Schools, with items available for school use
From the attraction's own website on 19 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Gift Shop
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- Oulton Broad South 0.3 miles
- Oulton Broad North 0.5 miles
- Lowestoft 1.8 miles
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