May 2023 by Charles Long
Good and on two levels with cafe.we who like to get value for rates and bus revenue come in on wet days and use the toilet ?. The hand dryers are state of the art german and built to last .
January 2023 by Roy Barclay
It's closed for refurbishment until 2025Supposedly Ipswich Museum will reopen then, but might actually receive some visitors if the local Council can be bothered to tell anybody this place even exists. Excellently displayed exhibits in traditional glass & wood cabinets, alike the national museums in the City. The red-brick building is impressive enough, but the interior is something else. Fantastic exhibits that are seen by a few who know that the museum is there, which cannot be many considering how secretive the site seems to be known to visitors to the town...
October 2022 by Sarah N
Very lovely museum a lot to learn from and a must visit museum in Ipswich as well. The museum consists of three levels and separated into different sections too. You can take children as well and they can do some fun activities and learn about history war, nature and wildlife too.
August 2022 by Susan Pepper
Great old fashioned museum with a real variety of displays but particularly eild animals and birds. There was also a great film on Sutton hoo and a display of a horde if gold coins found in 2008 dating back to Beaudicea. This was a temporary exhibit I think.
August 2022 by Gumbo YaYa
Family visit. Very enjoyable with interesting exhibits. We loved the place and the staff were very helpful.
August 2022 by Raven Solitary
Lovely place to spend a phew hours, history of Ipswich and Egyptian section was fascinating
July 2022 by debbie everett
Free day out so get there before it shuts in August for renovation. Check the website for activity days during summer hols. I was surprised by the range of animals including a mammoth and giraffe. Some fascinating information about Ipswich and surrounding areas. Worth a day there and you really don't get anything for free today so you have nothing to lose. We loved it!
June 2022 by carrie impey
What an amazing gem hidden in Ipswich.So many amazing exhibits with so much interactivity for the children.Most definitely worth a trip to.And it was free to go Into.
June 2022 by Betty Kermen
Nice museum not big but enough for spending good time and knowledge about anglo sakson culture. Not forget trial map for kids. Clean atmosphere and helpful workers
June 2022 by Olena Trotsenko
Simply WOW) So wide collection from different parts of the world and centuries. Free entrance also was ready to pay cause felt really impressed) Very nice staff. Thanks a lot!!!)
February 2022 by Emma Digby
This place is a hidden gem. Never been before and lived here for years. Went on Saturday around 11am. It wasn't too busy which I loved as I suffer with anxiety and being around crowds. Going into the museum your greeted with a welcome desk, a lovely little shop and a view of the museum infront of you. The staff are absolutely lovely and really helpful.Me and my partner wandered around for a couple of hours! I was shocked by how big the place was. So many interesting bits of information.I took quite a few pictures although it was hard to take some due to reflections and light.This place has a lot to offer. Very informative and fun things to look at.I read previous reviews which only gave a few stars and they are absolutely embarrasing. Someone leaving a review saying they fell down the stairs and the place is a bit run down?. What?The whole of the museum was clean and tidy and very well looked after. The toilets were tidy and clean and even the gift shop looked pleasing.A few more people did come in as time went on, but it's spacious enough to let people past without being too close.This museum really was lovely to walk around and I will definitely go back!.
November 2021 by Violet lol
Really lovely staff and very helpful. Our daughter was really disappointed to find the ww2 section was closed, such an important and integral part of our history and her favourite part of the museum. Very thankful to the staff who let us have a look around it anyway after seeing the disappointment on her face. Let's hope the reopen it soon so we can continue teaching our children the importance of the war years and how Britain pulled together as one.
October 2021 by j_meable
2021: So much has changed since I last visited, approx 2012. It has all been suitably updated and appears modern (as far as a museum can seem modern) and clean. The displays are engaging.The staff are knowledgeable and friendly. They said we could take as many photos as we liked as long as we didn't use flash. We spent ages in the first big hall with all the animals in. We enjoy going to the zoo, but to see a giraffe, gorillas, wolves, zebras and other animals we see at the zoo, so close, was very intriguing for my children (4 and 6). We used the little magazine they sell for 50p and got a 50p pencil too. My 6 year old enjoyed searching for the animals inside and ticking them off.All of the artefacts are genuine and the animals are all real animals, beautifully taxidermied (except for the giant mammoth - which a staff member told me has the same hair that Chewbacca has in Star Wars).The punishment chairs for whipping and dunking were rather disturbing to my children and couldn't be avoided as were on the main route. My only suggestion for improvement would be to have this disturbing area to one side in an offset room with a warning label to parents that children may find it disturbing (so they can choose to avoid it)We spent an hour inside and hadn't finished but it was closing time. The staff used an old police rattle to alert us that it was time to leave. I liked that touch.Well worth a visit!!
October 2021 by Karin Hayward
I visited the Museum with my grandsons who loved it. My eldest grandson is interested in Mummies so he was delighted to be able to see it.
October 2021 by Darren Murphy
Ipswich museum is a really surprising place. The collections the really are worth seeing, especially the woolly mammoth.
