In pictures: The incredible Stories of Lynn

The Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Pictured is The King John Cup. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Stories of Lynn museum contains historic artefacts from a time when the town was one of the most important ports in the country.

The Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Visitors can learn of the seafarers and merchants who have put King's Lynn on the map, and see one of the only treasures King John didn't manage to lose in The Wash - the King John Cup.

The Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Pictured is the Silver from the Sea exhibition. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

An exhibition in the Old Gaol Cells takes visitors back in time to where the most notorious criminals were locked up. The prison contains only four cells, but up to 50 people were put behind bars during the Victorian era and it was still in operation as recently as the 1950s.

The Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Pictured is the Red Register of King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

An eery display of a skull belonging to a schoolteacher convicted of murder has been preserved from the 19th century, when Victorians believed in reading someone's character in the shape of their skull.

Inside the old Gaol Cells at the Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Inside the old Gaol Cells at the Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Pictured is a ducking stool, used to punish mostly women. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Inside the old Gaol Cells at the Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Inside the old Gaol Cells at the Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

Inside the old Gaol Cells at the Stories of Lynn museum in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)

The skull of notorious 18th-century murderer Eugene Adam, who was arrested in King's Lynn. Picture: Ian Burt (Image: Archant 2017)