‘It’s about love for our region’: Suffolk museum’s name change prompts row

The tin tabernacle at the Food Museum, formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life. Photograph: Derek Mitchell/Alamy

Campaigners fear a loss of “local identity” after the Museum of East Anglian Life changed its name to the Food Museum in an effort to boost visitor numbers and make the museum more relatable.

The move has caused upset among some in the local area who fear they could lose “the only museum with an explicit focus on the history, life and people of East Anglia”.