page_title: Lowestoft Maritime Museum
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Lowestoft Maritime Museum / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Christopher Cockerell's workshop displayed at Lowestoft Maritime Museum
context_page_description: Lowestoft Maritime Museum is a private museum in the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England, which is dedicated to local and national maritime history. Its exhibits include maritime artefacts including medals awarded to Royal Navy and RNLI personnel, marine art, the fishing industry in Lowestoft and the town's involvement with the Royal Navy in World War II, shipwrights and coopers tools, an extensive collection of ship models in various scales, the workshop of Christopher Cockerell, the inventor of the hovercraft, and a small display dedicated to Thomas Crisp, a local man who posthumously won the Victoria Cross during World War I. Britain's most easterly museum, it is run by enthusiasts and volunteers and is open to the public from late April to late October each year. The museum was the Suffolk Museum of the Year in 2012 and a finalist in 2014. There is an admission charge.
context_section_description: The exhibits on display include a wide range of maritime artefacts including a display of medals awarded to naval and RNLI personnel, a large display of marine art and ships in bottles, the fishing industry in Lowestoft and the town's involvement with the Royal Navy in World War II, a workbench of shipwrights and coopers tools, an extensive collection of ship models in various scales, the workshop of Christopher Cockerell, the inventor of the hovercraft, reassembled at the museum following his death in 1999 and which displays his original tools and machinery including his left-handed lathe, a display about Robert William Hook (1828–1911), coxswain at RNLI Lowestoft from 1853 to 1883 who was credited with saving more than 600 lives during his career, and a small display dedicated to Thomas Crisp, a local man who posthumously won the Victoria Cross during World War I, including his original Memorial Plaque.
  Other exhibits range from interactive displays for children including a maritime identification trail, Lowestoft’s connection with Madam Prunier and her London restaurant, a range of historic photographs and paintings, Lowestoft at war, a reconstruction of a ship's wheelhouse with working VHS radio to listen into passing ships and a small museum cinema showing archive films. 
  A shop sells a variety of maritime-themed goods.
caption: Sir Christopher Cockerell's workshop
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