Stormtrooper collectables in the May the Toys Be with You exhibition. Picture: TIME & TIDE EXHIBITION
- Credit: Archant
From Star Wars toys to the first major exhibition of the work of Norwich artist John Crome in more than 50 years - Norfolk s museums are getting ready to welcome back visitors.
Five of the county s museums are getting ready to welcome back visitors from Monday - and two more will follow soon after.
Prime minister Boris Johnson has confirmed the country is on course for the next step of coronavirus restriction easing next week.
That means that Norfolk Museums Service will reopen Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Time and Tide and the Elizabethan House Museum in Great Yarmouth, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse and Cromer Museum from Monday, May 17.
Norwich Castle Museum will reopen its doors on May 17
- Credit: Archant
Museums in Norfolk are set to welcome visitors back next week as the lockdown continues to ease - and will celebrate with some new exhibitions.
Norfolk Museums Service will open five of its museums on May 17, and a further two later the same week.
As well as its permanent collections, visitors will be able to enjoy new exhibitions and facilities.
At Norwich Castle, these include a major exhibition celebrating the landscape painter, John Crome, a contemporary art show inspired by lockdown, and the display of an 18th century Bernardo Bellotto masterpiece on loan from the National Gallery.
Stormtrooper collectables in the May the Toys Be with You exhibition. Picture: TIME & TIDE EXHIBITION
- Credit: Archant
From Star Wars toys to the first major exhibition of the work of Norwich artist John Crome in more than 50 years - Norfolk s museums are getting ready to welcome back visitors.
Five of the county s museums are getting ready to welcome back visitors from Monday - and two more will follow soon after.
Prime minister Boris Johnson has confirmed the country is on course for the next step of coronavirus restriction easing next week.
That means that Norfolk Museums Service will reopen Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Time and Tide and the Elizabethan House Museum in Great Yarmouth, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse and Cromer Museum from Monday, May 17.
Norwich Castle Museum will reopen its doors on May 17
- Credit: Archant
Museums in Norfolk are set to welcome visitors back next week as the lockdown continues to ease - and will celebrate with some new exhibitions.
Norfolk Museums Service will open five of its museums on May 17, and a further two later the same week.
As well as its permanent collections, visitors will be able to enjoy new exhibitions and facilities.
At Norwich Castle, these include a major exhibition celebrating the landscape painter, John Crome, a contemporary art show inspired by lockdown, and the display of an 18th century Bernardo Bellotto masterpiece on loan from the National Gallery.
Bluebells in Rosary Cemetery, Norwich - the oldest non denominational cemetery in the country
- Credit: Denise Bradley
From a football grandstand to a picture of wheelbarrow and from a tower to a urinal we find Norfolk landmarks which are the oldest in the county, country or even the world
FOOTBALL STAND
The grandstand at Great Yarmouth Town Football Club is the oldest surviving football stand in the world. The stand, opened in 1892 is a grand 129 years old.
However, the first sport to be viewed from the stand was not football but athletics and cycling. The grade-II listed Wellesley Road ground was opened in 1888, with cycle races on a cinder track, watched by a crowd of 3,000. The first football match came two years later and Great Yarmouth Town moved in exactly 120 years ago. Record attendance was back in 1953 when almost 9,000 people watched the Bloaters win 1-0 against Crystal Palace in the first round of the FA Cup. Extra terracing was provided in the form of fish boxe