What's On | Diss Museum

A Stroll around Diss
March-October, £5 per person (accompanied children under 12 free)
Stroll time: approx. 1.5 hours, start and finish at the Museum
Introducing you to our lovely market town – not just a guided tour! Learn about some of the old buildings, the town’s history, some of its famous people and a lot of interesting things about Diss.
Remember… we put the ROLL into the STROLL for those who rely upon wheels to get around!
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Programme of speakers
Every third Friday, Friends of the Museum can enjoy a lecture from a different speaker.
Click here to view details of 2018 speakers.

The Shambles - When the Museum building was a butcher's shop
Amongst items on display are the large weighing scales, a frightningly heavy meat cleaver, a bloodied apron, photographs and three 'frails'. Frail was the name given to the rushwork bags that Mr. Anness the butcher provided for carrying meat home. An indication of their age is shown by the printed telephone number on the bag - Diss 105.

Audio-visual
Since last November we have had A/V in the Shambles to demonstrate DVDs on sale in the shop. The facility has also been used to show the Tristram Cary Story and is currently being used to display the story of the Diss Dig.

Permanent Exhibitions

Always on display are the Manning family dolls' house and information about local personalities like Tudor poet-laureate and Diss rector, John Skelton, and Victorian photographer, Cleer Alger.

Temporary Exhibitions

Currently exhibiting is a this Brush Factory display, which complements the project currently on at the Corn Hall - 'A Brush with the Past', which will run until September 2018 and incorporates the Heritage Days.

Diss Museum

2006	Secrets of the Butcher's Attic
	Church Street
	Pubs of Diss
	Betjeman centenary
	Samplers

2007	Gaze’s & Frenze
	DissBorn - a few iconic objects from local people about their life Thelveton Estate, school, gamekeeping History of Town Guide

2008	Diss Grammar School centenary
	End of WW1 90th anniversary
	World War 3
	Historical Items With a Hint of Mystery

2009	Thomas Paine
	The Shambles history
	Fair Green
	Banking Scandals
	Diss Secondary Modern School

2010	Edwardian Childhood
	Crippen & Ethel Le Neve
	Meccano

2011	Mannings
	Flints & fossils

2012	Sport
	Church School 150th anniversary
	Friendly Invasion 70th anniversary
	On the Square: Freemasons
	Royal commemorations

2013	Corn Hall
	Diss Militia, including medal
	King John & Matilda 800th anniversary
	Flints & fossils
	History of life before electricity
	Brushes

2014	Airship Days
	WW1
	UN International Year of Crystallography
	Eighteenth Century New Hall porcelain
	Burston Strike centenary

2015	Diss Mere
	Redgrave Estate - Admiral Wilson and WOP Garnham
	The Heritage Triangle Traders
	Diss Hospital
	Lost Sweet Shops of Diss
	Hats Off - hats and hatpins

2016	The Roydon Field Mystery
	Well shod!
	Wop Garnham & Admiral Wilson
	WW1 update
	Hidden Gems
	A Royal Event
	The Printed Word
	100 Years of the Cubs
	The Heritage Triangle
	Tristram Cary Tribute

2017	Norfolk and Seretse Khama
	The Great War
	Heritage Triangle
	Cupiss
	Diss Rotary Club
	1937 Coronation
	The Aldrich Bros Ltd Brush & Mat Factory
	John Frere’s hand axe discoveries
	World War 2
	Diss Cemetery Worthies
	The Handwritten Letter