Museums at Home
​Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
Norfolk Museums Service

Virtual Museums Tours
If you miss exploring our wonderful museums, take a look at Google Streetview’s amazing virtual tours of the museums – wander around galleries and climb down spiral staircases – all without leaving home.

​ Try tours of Museum of Norwich, Lynn Museum, and Norwich Castle.  You can also take a tour round our 3D virtual model of Norwich Castle Keep made by GGS.  Enjoy exploring!

Creative Inspiration #NMSInspired
Every Monday we are sharing an object from the collections on Instagram and inviting you to respond creatively in any medium you choose - and then share it with the world with the hashtag #NMSInspired. Each week we’ll select responses to showcase on the Norwich Castle Instagram account and all works shared under the #NMSInspired will become part of an online exhibition which people can browse and explore via the hashtag. Do take a look and share your work whether it is painting, drawing, needlework, photography, sculpture – wherever the creative flow takes you we want to see it! 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-oWpGLnlJn/
For more information visit:
www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Recreating art in your own home

#TussenKunstenQuarataine
If you’ve been anywhere near social media in the last few weeks you’ll be hard pushed to have missed the amazing #TussenKunstenQuarataine (between art and quarantine).  

​If you have missed out, take a look, people everywhere are re-creating works of art in their homes with costumes and props and a lot of loo roll!  If you’d like to re-create anything from the Norfolk Museums collections you can find our images here – and we’d love to see the results, so please @ us in!

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Time and Tide BlogTime & Tide Museum have launched the Great Yarmouth Museums blog where you can read about John Ives, the ‘original curator’, hear from Chair of Yarmouth & Waveney Pride about their recent donation of a t-shirt from the first ever pride event in Great Yarmouth, and much more.

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse - Tails from the Farm!If you are missing the great outdoors (and who isn’t) take a look at the Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse social media posts. The site is closed but essential work continues to make sure the animals are fed, happy and healthy and staff are sharing photos of some of our farmyard friends taken during their daily rounds.

Viking: Rediscover the Legend : Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
9 February to 8 September 2019

A major new partnership exhibition between the British Museum and York Museums Trust

Some of the most significant Anglian and Viking treasures ever discovered in Britain will go on display together at Norwich Castle.

Featuring star objects from the British Museum and Yorkshire Museum, Viking: Rediscover the Legend offers a fresh perspective on how Vikings shaped every aspect of life in Britain.
The exhibition includes the Anglian York Helmet, the most outstanding example of its type to survive, as well as the most significant Viking hoards ever found in the UK - the Vale of York Viking Hoard, Cuerdale Hoard and the Bedale Hoard.
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These finds will be shown alongside highlights from Norwich Castle’s collections and will be interpreted in new ways to challenge our perceptions of what it means to be Viking.