The old curing works at Great Yarmouth - geograph

Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

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, is set in one of the UK's best-preserved Victorian

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curing works and is Norfolk's third largest museum. The museum is centred on Great Yarmouth's rich maritime and

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heritage, mainly focusing on the history of Yarmouth and the herring curing works. The museum feature various exhibitions including a typical 'Row' (a type of narrow street) from 1913, a Yarmouth quayside from the 1950s and hands on displays, films, audio guides and children's activities. The museum is currently visited by around 30,000 people a year. Time & Tide museum is part of Maritime Heritage East which is a partnership of over 35 maritime museums in the East of England.

Awards

The Time and Tide Museum has won, and been nominated for, some awards in the recent years: *

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Museum of the Year Finalist 2005 *

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Finalist 2006 * Objective 2 Celebrate Award Winner (Tourism Category) 2006 *

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Design & Development Award Winner 2006

Herring Curing Works Renovation

The Time and Tide Museum is set in Britain's best-preserved herring curing works. This was closed down in the mid-1980s, but £4.7 million was spent on refurbishing and converting the Grade II listed factory into the modern museum.

References

Time and Tide Museum review from the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology ServiceTide and Time Museum information
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Awards

Herring Curing Works Renovation

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