Museum to Go is Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service’s van based, community focused mobile museum and has just taken delivery of its giant board game to add to this exciting FREE resource on the road!

Colchester’s history is taking to the highway, embarking on a new long and interesting journey into people’s lives, will take collections out to hard to reach audiences in a creative and innovative way.  This is all due to Colchester museums securing £100,000 of external funding from the Designation Challenge Fund Phase 4.

Caroline Mc Donald Museum to go Project Officer says - ‘It is a fun, innovative, exciting resource that seeks to engage non-museum users with a surprising experience of their past. It aims to be the opposite of a traditional museum experience and to shatter preconceptions.’

The van will bring this free, friendly and fun history service to communities in the Ipswich, Colchester, Maldon or Tendring areas.  A museum member of staff will help you discover, touch, smell, play, create, listen and look to find out about the people who lived here before us from the prehistoric to modern period.

There will be a ‘dig deeper’ corner where more in depth information will be available and a laptop which will also provide other info as well as the chance to explore ‘Virtual Colchester’ or take on the Romans in the game ‘Rome-Total War!’ (Kindly donated by Creative Assembly).  A second museum staff member will be there to help and answer questions.

A fifth, smaller theme will be reminiscencence boxes for use with elderly people in care homes.

To find out more, discuss your needs or to book call the team on 01206 507846 or email: museumtogo@colchester.gov.uk