Welcome to Lowestoft Maritime Museum

The museum is now open for the 2025 season and closes for Winter maintenance on 1st November 2025.

Should you wish to contact the museum at any time please email admin@lowestoftmaritimemuseum.co.uk. All enquiries will be answered.

Close to the North Sea in Lowestoft’s lovely Sparrow’s Nest Gardens, Lowestoft Maritime Museum offers a fascinating few hours of enjoyment and discovery for all ages.

“What a wonderful record of Lowestoft’s Heritage.”

David Cleveland, Berkshire.

Volunteer Recruitment

Would you like to be part of our team? We are always looking for new volunteers to join our teams to welcome visitors and share the town’s history with our visitors, and help maintain the museum ‘behind the scenes’. Maritime knowledge is not essential as training will be available. Find out more here.

If you are interested, please contact us by email or telephone.

Events

East Coast Heritage Event 2019

June 15th 2019 - 10am to 4pm Lowestoft Campus of East Coast College St Peter's Street, Lowestoft, NR32 2NB Come along to this interesting FREE event with stalls from: local museums local history groups locaI colleges parks and other heritage groups fishermen...

Ahoy There Mateys

We are nearly ready to open the gangway to our first guests of the year. A lot of polishing, hovering and sweeping but we will be ready for everyone on Saturday.