Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life are planning an exhibition for 2012 and are looking for people who would  like to share their story with our local museum.

Time and Tide museum was developed in consultation with local people to present their stories and ensure the community was at the heart of its displays. The diversity and richness of our community is forever growing and has developed significantly since the museum was first opened.

As a transient maritime community, changing and welcoming new influences is nothing new to Great Yarmouth. The presence of the port has long meant that people come and go with the boats and the seasons and trade relations across the North Sea, especially with Europe, have been important to the town’s prosperity. Sailors returning from world-wide journeys would bring back exotic objects, which have become part of the museum’s collections via the Sailors’ Home. At the height of the herring boom thousands of Scottish workers followed the fishing fleet to set up home here for the duration of the herring season.

For 2012 we are developing an exhibition to explore the journeys of people and objects to Norfolk, in particular, Great Yarmouth. The exhibition will reveal the paths those objects and people took to reach Great Yarmouth and celebrate the cultural diversity of our museum collections and the communities of our town.

We would like to tell the stories of more recent settlers, alongside objects which tell of Great Yarmouth’s historic cultural and trading exchanges taking the Olympic Values of Respect, Excellence and Friendship as our starting point. We want this exhibition to explore the world-wide cultural influences and histories that contribute to Great Yarmouth’s history and identity today.

We are looking for individuals, families and community groups who would like to share the story of their journeys to and lives in Great Yarmouth to form the core of the exhibition. We would like people to lend us something that is important to the story of their journey to display and share with others. We’d also like to interview as many people as possible to give them the opportunity to tell us why and how they came here and to present this an oral history. It would be wonderful to have photographs as well to add to the variety and colour of the exhibition. We plan to show all the contributions in our exhibition galleries alongside museum objects from our World Cultures collections. The exhibition will open at the end of March 2012 and run until the end of September.

If you or someone you know is interested in getting involved, please contact:
Alison Hall, Exhibitions Coordinator on 01493 743945 or email alison.hall@norfolk.gov.uk

Participants Submission form which can be copied and printed off, or alternatively, contact Alison at email address above to request an emailed or a hard copy.

(Free admission.)

Saturday 1 October to Sunday 4 March 2012

Sea View by J.S.Cotman, c1810-20

Discover Great Yarmouth through the eyes of the Norwich School of Artists in this exhibition of paintings and drawings.

This delightful exhibition of paintings and drawings from Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service collections includes atmospheric views of local landmarks – the beach, jetty and quay side – by artists such as John Sell Cotman, John Crome and Joseph Stannard.

In the 19th century, Norfolk was home to this close-knit group of painters, who formed the first regional group of artists in England. They were inspired by Great Yarmouth, with its bustling quay side and growing popularity as a holiday destination. And as many potential patrons and benefactors lived by the quay, some of the artists chose to make Yarmouth their home.

A programme of talks and family activities complements the exhibition.

For details visit www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Admission to the whole Museum £4.80 adults / £4.10 concession / £3.50 Young person (4-16yrs) / under 4’s FREE / Adult in family group £4.00

Opening Times

Until 31 October: Mon – Sun 10am – 5pm

From 1 November: Mon-Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat & Sun 12noon-4pm

Fun days for the family through the summr season at the Tolhouse Museum, including meeting the gaoler and hearing from a 12th century prisoner of the cells with grm and grisly tales of the plaque.  Creative activities as well.

TUDOR TALES on Thursdays at the Elizabethan House Museum, 28th July – 1st September, 12.00-1600 hrs.

Learn about and try the costumes at the Elizabethan House Museum; learn to write with quill pens and also abut some of the grizzlier aspects of life in Tudor times.

All events at the Tolhouse and Elizabethan House Museums are included in admission ticket price: adults £3.70, concession £3.10, young person (4-16)  £2, children under 4 free.

Summer Holiday Events at the Time and Tide Museum

Cartoon Workshops, every Monday from 25th July – 29th August, 12.00-16.00 hrs. Learn skills of the cartoonist, suitable for all ages.

Science at the Seaside, Monday 8th August, 12.00-16.00 hrs. Great interactive fun in association with ‘Inspire’: experiments and demonstrations that will engage and amaze children of all ages.

Hello Campers! Saturday 20th August, 11.00-16.o0 hrs. Discover how holiday makers of the past had fun on a budget.  Enjoy a day of activities, performance, talks, and good old-fashioned seaside fun.    Meet the swing-dancing group and see them performing at the museum, doing demonstrations and workshops.

All events at the Time and Tide Museum are included in admission ticket price: adults £4.80, concession £4.10, adult in a family group £4,  young person (4-16)  £3.50, children under 4 free.

For more information go to www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk and www.nationaltrust.org.uk.

, Thursdays

Saturday 9 April – Sunday 4 September 2011 at the Time and Tide Museum, Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth

Nothing captures the spirit of the great British seaside holiday quite like the colourful postcards produced by Bamforth and Co between the 1950s and 1970s.

Young holiday makers might sneak a peek at the mischievous illustrations, whilst adults sniggered at the double entendres. These popular cards were an entertaining way of sending greetings back home – with a bit of titillation thrown in.

The exhibition brings together a wonderful selection of cards, original drawings, sketches and paintings. And a film goes behind the scenes to reveal the artists and illustrators at work in the studio.

To add a local flavour, you can also see a display of postcards from Great Yarmouth. Wish You Were Here is a nostalgic reminder of the town’s heyday as a holiday resort.

A touring exhibition from Kirklees Community History Service.

For more information about the exhibition, opening times and entry fees, click here

Family workshop. Search the museum for some tasty treats and listen to tales of Spring!

For more information: 01493 743930 or email to yarmouth.museums@norfolk.gov.uk.

Fellows Shipyard, watercolour, 1962, by Anthony Amies (1945-2000)

Two Shores – Living with the North Sea

Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life

Saturday 27 November 2010 – Sunday 27 March 2011

This exhibition looks at the coastal life of East Anglia and the region’s relationship with its neighbours across the North Sea in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The story is told through the experiences of people who make their living from the North Sea – in the offshore and fishing industries, leisure and tourism, ports and ferries.

We hear from offshore workers whose jobs are changing with the development of new industries like wind farms. Fishermen reveal how their work has been affected by reduced fish stocks and marine archaeologists help us to understand the geography of the North Sea and our region’s physical connections with mainland Europe.

Maritime objects, ‘tools of the trade’, paintings, photographs, maps, letters and documents bring these stories to life. Whilst ancient objects like the amazing prehistoric North Sea hand axes, a Mesolithic harpoon head and fossil bones found under the sea remind us of the long and fascinating history of these two shores.

Saturday 16th October 11am to 3pm Education Room, Time and Tide Museum

Kate Coleman is delivering an exciting and unusual workshop at the Time and Tide Museum on Saturday, 16th October, offering the opportunity to view, discuss and draw selected museum objects not usually on display. These objects include domestic design icons, tools and leisure objects from the past 50 + years, which will no doubt evoke memories and inspiration. You will be able to make pencil, charcoal & pastel drawings and have the opportunity to make exciting prints. In addition to this, poet Rupert Mallin will be there to listen to and record your thoughts about memories raised by the objects. Resulting words and images will be exhibited at the Central Library in November.

Free admission to this workshop for pre-booked participants includes refreshments and materials. Participants must supply their own lunch. Normal admission applies to visit the museum.

Great Yarmouth artists group, ARC, has been funded by Awards for All to run Transitions, with the aim of profiling grassroots cultural life in the Borough, past and present.

Transitions will conclude with an exhibition at the Central Library from 10th-20th November 2010 and the interactive website www.eastcoastnet.org will be used to gather and share materials and as a focus for discussion as the project develops.

To book your place or for more information please conta  Kate Coleman tel: 07765281970 or email here

       In collaboration with Great Yarmouth Museums Service

01.10.2010  Murders of Yarmouth Beach, delivered by Les Cole, NMAS

08.10.2010  Crime and Punishment in Medieval  GY, delivered by Dr. Janka Rodziewicz, UEA Postgraduate Medieval History

15.10.2010 Great Exhibitions inside T&T’s temporary programme, delivered by Alison Hall, Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Time and Tide, NMAS

22.10.2010 Boars, Bulls and Norfolk’s Celtic Menagerie, delivered by Dr. John Davies, Head Curator, NMAS

29.10.2010 Postcards of Yarmouth Seafront, delivered by Peter Jones, Collector, Great Yarmouth

05.11.2010 The History of Roman Roads in the Landscape, delivered by James Albone, Planning Archaeologist, Norfolk Environment Service

12.11.2010  Great Yarmouth Community Garden Project, delivered by Caroline Fernandez, Community Project Worker, GY Library

19.11.2010 Hello Sailor: fashion, costume and textiles of the sea, delivered by Ruth Battersby Tooke, Curator, Costume and Textiles, NMAS

26.11.2010 Olive Edis, Photographer of Fishermen and Kings, delivered by Alistair Murphy, Curator, Cromer Museum, NMAS

03.12.2010 The History of Witney Blanket, delivered by James Everitt, Museum Development Worker, NMAS

10.12.2010 Pleasure Gardens, delivered by Colin Tooke, Local Historian and Author

14.01.2011 Textile Tales of the Notorious and the Capricious, delivered by Lisa Little, Curatorial Asst. Carrow House, NMAS

21.01.2011 Curious Creatures, delivered by Dr. Tony Irwin, Senior Curator, Natural History, NMAS

28.01.2011 History of the Tolhouse, delivered by Les Cole,  Great Yarmouth Museums

04.02.2011 Norfolk’s Seventh Sense? Art, Spirit and Ancient Places, delivered by Trevor Ashwin, Artist and Archaeologist

11.02.2011 The Projected Picture – from Magic Lantern to 3D Cinema, delivered by Peter Stibbons, Poppyland Publishing

18.02.2011 1913 – That was the Year that Was, delivered by Janice Bell, Great Yarmouth Museums

25.02.2011 Flights of Fancy – Space in the Temple, Space in the Airport, delivered by Jonathan Tooke, Events Coordinator, GY Museums

04.03.2011 Recent Finds in Norfolk, delivered by Adrian Marsden, Finds Officer, Norfolk Landscape Archaeology

11.03.2011 Crinoline to Crape: The Story of Silks, delivered by Cathy Terry, Curator, Social History, Strangers Hall, NMAS

18.03.2011 How to Dig up a Tyrannosaurus Rex, delivered by Dr. David Waterhouse, Curator, Natural History, NMAS

25.03.2011 A Tram Ride to Gorleston, delivered by Colin Tooke, Local Historian and Author

Original smoke stacks have been preserved in the once famous Tower Curing Works, now the premises of the award-winning Time and Tide Museum, where the ever popular Herring Day is held to celebrate the glory days of Great Yarmouth’s fishing industry with music, magic, stories and performance.  

The Silver Darlings cafe in the courtyard will be serving a special Herring Day menu –  ’A taste of October’.  For futher information tel 01493 743930 or go to www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk.