Harwich Maritime Museum will open its ‘make a lighthouse activity’ for the school holidays.
This in addition to the museum’s usual weekend offering of activities including spotting the parrot, ringing ship’s bells, testing the foghorn and trying on uniforms.
Harwich Society volunteer, Catherine Ovens, said she started the planning after last year’s very successful ‘make a boat’ activity.
When asked if she expected to be as busy as last year Catherine said: ‘I was volunteering last Saturday and a lady came into the museum as her grandchildren, who live away, had asked her to check what they were making this year’.
John Goodchild, curator, said that the craft activities undertaken at the museum reflects nicely with one of the Harwich Society’s core beliefs being ‘to stimulate public interest in the Harwich area’.
He said: “Children come into the museum and leave having had a really great time having been amongst so much local history”.
Entrance is free on the Friday being open 10am to 4pm, July 25 and August 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
The museum is also open Saturday and Sunday, and all accompanied children are welcome.
For further information contact:
Press Officer, Garry Calver.
TEL 01255 551940
