Head along to a special opening of the Ipswich Hospital Museum in conjunction with the Great Houses of Ipswich.

• Open houses – The Chestnuts and Lakemba are very handy to the museum.
• Meet some of the volunteers who assist in preserving and communicating the history of the Ipswich Hospital.
• Speak to the volunteers who regularly work in the museum and plan and research the exhibits and the hospital’s history.
• Enjoy browsing through some of the Ipswich Hospital’s history.
• The current exhibit’s theme is “Pestilence, plagues, poultices, poxes, pustules and pyrexias – The Infections, Epidemics and Fevers of Ipswich”