Exhibition: All of Us Witches

All of us Witches is an exhibition honouring the women who were executed under successive Witchcraft Acts in East Anglia.

King's Lynn played an important role in these trials and at least 60 women were put to death in the region during this time.
This exhibition was inspired by the local legend of the Witch's Heart, which we have adapted as the Wyrdfest Logo.

​The exhibition explores the history and cultural background to the witch trials. It contains documents and artefacts from the King's Lynn archives showing how the genuinely-held belief that witches could cause physical harm to livestock, communities and individuals became law - and was prosecuted with deadly effect.

The exhibition shows the names of some of the women who were executed in Lynn's Tuesday Marketplace and asks if any of them actually practised witchcraft?

Finally it looks at the practice of witchcraft as a spiritual path today and includes a reminder that, in some parts of the world, the accusation of being a witch can still be a death sentence.​

The All of Us Witches exhibition will be on display in the Archive Room and can be accessed as part of the normal museum admission.
Please also see our creative writing workshops with Sue Burge being held as part of this exhibition.

Stories of Lynn is open seven days a week, 10 am - 4.30 pm. Admission price: £3.45 (click for full list of prices and concessions)

Part of West Norfolk Wyrdfest - a month-long series of events for October celebrating the weird, the wonderful and the deliciously dark.
 

The All of Us Witches exhibition is on display in the Archive Room and can be accessed as part of the normal museum admission.
Admission price: £3.45 includes entry to Stories of Lynn Museum. (See website for concessions)
Open seven days a week, 10 am - 4.30 pm.