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.
An iron age torc.
This Iron Age Torc in the Norfolk Museums Service collection was acquired with help from the Friends of the Norwich Museums
- Credit: Peter King
A hoard of Roman gold coins.
This Anglo Saxon hoard of gold coins, in the Norfolk Museums Service collection, was acquired with help from the Friends of the Norwich Museums
- Credit: Peter King
The gold and garnet Winfarthing Pendant which dates back to the seventh century.
The Friends helps to fund the purchase, conservation and restoration of objects at Norwich Castle Musuem, the Museum of Norwich (formerly the Bridewell) and Strangers Hall. Its own history dates back to 1920 when John Henry Walter, a director of Norwich Union, realised that works of national and local importance were being lost to the people of Norwich and Norfolk because the city had no funds to buy them. He recruited others, including members of the Jarrold, Gurney and Colman families, who were equally keen to preserve important collections