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![Wisbech to become a Window Wanderland for two nights this December](/perch/resources/news/carousel-1.jpg)
11 November 2020
Wisbech to become a Window Wanderland for two nights this December
Wisbech residents are invited to light up the neighbourhood this festive season by making an illuminated window display at home.
![Wisbech Museum praised on TV this week](/perch/resources/news/standing-next-to-thomas-clarkson.jpg)
20 October 2020
Wisbech Museum praised on TV this week
Benjamin Zephaniah named Wisbech and Fenland Museum his favourite in the world and chose to be filmed in its Covid-closed...
![Wisbech Museum wins grant to make its collection available to online audiences](/perch/resources/news/img9812-fab-fifties-dresses-may-queen-19-may-1955-3.jpg)
22 September 2020
Wisbech Museum wins grant to make its collection available to online audiences
Wisbech & Fenland Museum has received a grant of £19,000 to respond to museum closure due to Covid-19 and the...
![Family Bubble Days at Wisbech Museum](/perch/resources/news/mosaic.jpg)
08 September 2020
Family Bubble Days at Wisbech Museum
Wisbech and Fenland Museum celebrated the end of the school holidays by welcoming its first visitors for months to a...
![Museum honours school - age volunteers with end of year awards](/perch/resources/news/img4084.jpg)
18 July 2020
Museum honours school - age volunteers with end of year awards
Students from Meadowgate School in Wisbech have been awarded certificates in recognition of their hard work and enthusiasm as volunteers...
![Covid-19 Crisis Grant awarded to Wisbech and Fenland Museum](/perch/resources/news/museum-front-medium.jpg)
17 June 2020
Covid-19 Crisis Grant awarded to Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Arts Council England has awarded Wisbech and Fenland Museum a crisis grant of over £16,000 through its Covid-19 Emergency Response...
![Wisbech Museum volunteers scoop two top awards in Eastern Region](/perch/resources/news/anna-and-gvidasedit.jpg)
09 June 2020
Wisbech Museum volunteers scoop two top awards in Eastern Region
The young team who built a ground-breaking anti-slavery campaigns exhibition and a popular volunteer of 30 years service from Wisbech...
![Wisbech Museum celebrates 75th VE Day with a story of derring-do in Walsoken on the day victory was announced](/perch/resources/news/john-wing-with-ve-day-walsoken-chapel-flag-cropped.jpg)
15 May 2020
Wisbech Museum celebrates 75th VE Day with a story of derring-do in Walsoken on the day victory was announced
In a joyful public gesture on the first VE Day - May 8, 1945 - the Union Flag was hung...
![Take part in #MementoOnline](/perch/resources/news/ollie2.jpg)
21 April 2020
Take part in #MementoOnline
Get involved in #MementoOnline, a digital extension to our latest volunteer-led exhibition Memento…a story behind every object.
![Wisbech Museum closed to public until further notice due to Covid-19](/perch/resources/news/galleryimageedit.jpg)
17 March 2020
Wisbech Museum closed to public until further notice due to Covid-19
Public access to Wisbech and Fenland Museum was stopped today until May 5 at the soonest.
All volunteers and students...