• Source: Time and Tide Museum

      • Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, is a maritime and fishing museum in Great Yarmouth and established in 2005. It is situated in a former Victorian herring curing factory known as Tower Curing Works, and is now part of Maritime Heritage East, a partnership of over 30 maritime museums in the East of England.


      History


      The curing works was closed down in the mid-1980s, and the building lay unused for almost 20 years.
      Over £4.5 million was spent on refurbishing and converting the Grade II listed factory into the modern museum about the building's life as a fish factory, which opened in 2005. It took on exhibits from Great Yarmouth's former Maritime Museum, which had closed in 2002.
      In 2019, the museum set up a British Tattoo Art Revealed exhibition, which features over 400 items concerning tattoos in Britain. A town-wide exhibition of works from Peter Henry Emerson was partially on display at the Museum in 2021. A Banksy mural from Gorleston-on-Sea, which had appeared following the death of a girl in 2018 and was covered up due to "sensitivity," was moved to the museum temporarily in 2022.


      Awards


      Gulbenkian Prize Museum of the Year finalist 2005
      European Museum of the Year finalist 2006
      Objective 2 Celebrate Award Winner (Tourism Category) 2006
      Eastern Daily Press Design & Development Award Winner 2006


      References




      External links


      Official site at Museums Norfolk

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: