We're highly experienced in designing visits that educate, engage and entertain, in a way that really brings a subject to life. From tailor-made museum-led learning sessions to hands-on experiences, we really get down to the roots of a subject and serve up something special.The Food Museum is a place where your pupils and students can enjoy informative and fun learning experiences that will help them understand the role that food has played in shaping our history and culture.
We offer pre-booked free visits that allow you and your pupils to explore the Museum and our wider 75-acre site. Alternatively, we have bookable Learning Sessions that are led by experienced and knowledgeable members of our Learning Team. These Learning Sessions have been developed to further enrich classroom learning. We use our landscape, buildings, and our collections to bring a range of subjects to life. Our food-based sessions allow your pupils and students to get more hands-on with how food is grown, produced, cooked, and eaten.
NEW FOR 2026 School Dinners Exhibition
Semolina, sponge pudding and custard, turkey twizzlers... What are your memories of school dinners?
Explore our exhibition to discover how school dinners came about, the importance of nutrition in planning what to put on the menu and how school food has changed over time. Share your memories of school food and help to design a school dinner of the future.
Pupils will have the opportunity to handle objects, interrogate photographic and written resources and explore the exhibition to gather information that will help them create their own school dinner.
What activities are available during educational visits?
Our museum-led sessions are the best way to enhance your educational visit. These fun and interactive events are run by expert members of our team, and really get children (and adults!) engaging with the subject at hand.
These sessions work on a first come, first served basis so booking is essential. If you don't see a suitable session for your group please get in touch and we will try to accommodate your requests. Tailor-made sessions may incur a further charge depending on the time and resources required to create them, so we'll need a minimum of two weeks' notice to arrange things.
These sessions work on a first come, first served basis so booking is essential. If you don't see a suitable session for your group please get in touch and we will try to accommodate your requests. Tailor-made sessions may incur a further charge depending on the time and resources required to create them, so we'll need a minimum of two weeks' notice to arrange things.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Cooking and Nutrition School Trip
Where food comes from
Pupils will gain understanding of how wheat grows, how wheat plants are processed into grain and then flour. Students will undertake a bread-making activity that culminates in their bread being baked on our wood fired oven.
The learning session begins with your students making dough from freshly milled flour. Whilst the dough is proving, a member of our learning team will lead a short interactive presentation on how wheat grows and how it is milled into flour. This part can be tailored depending on Key Stage, Subject and desired learning outcomes. After a short break, the students then shape their dough before taking it over to the wood-fired oven to be baked. This ends the learning session. However, we recommend that you and your group follow our bread trail to discover our GROW area, watermill, and much more.
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>What size groups do we cater for?
Any
On-site classroom facilities?
Yes We do have the ability to provide a classroom-like environment. You can tell us your group size and any specific requirements in the form below.
Is there first aid on site?
Yes
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
Yes We certainly can. Please use the form below to let us know your group's specific SEN requirements and we will get back to you with more information on how we can tailor our learning experience for your children.
Yes Please let us know more about your group and we will get back to you with more details about the suitability of what we offer.
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Who are The Food Museum?
We are the UK's Food Museum, located in East Anglia, 'Britain's Breadbasket'. Our mission is to connect people with where our food comes from and the impact of our choices: past, present and future.
We all eat. Food is culture and is an avenue for everyday creativity. Our collection is rooted in East Anglia and we use it to tell broad and inclusive stories.
From cheese-making to brewing, historic breads to seasonal eating, we are here to engage audiences with the heritage of food and the communities who grow and make it. We aim to explore themes connected by food ' social, historical, technological, industrial, environmental ' and to give visitors hands-on experiences which bring processes alive, teach skills and share memories.
Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 1SL
Step Back in Time: Why the School Dinners Exhibition is a Must-Visit for Teachers
The smell of warm custard, the clatter of lunch trays, and the anticipation of what's on the menu, school dinners are woven into the fabric of childhood memories. Now, the Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk, is moving into year two of what's thought to be the UK's first exhibition dedicated...
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