By Sarah Lowndes, Migration, Heritage and Belonging Project Assistant I joined the team at Time and Tide Museum in January this year to work on a project called Migration, Heritage and Belonging, the first strand of which (researching First Nations artefacts in our collection) I blogged about last week. The second strand of the projectContinue reading “Migration, Heritage and Belonging Project”
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The Bloaters
By Wayne Kett, Great Yarmouth and Cromer Museum’s Curator In the absence of any actual football to watch, I thought I might quite enjoy writing a blog about football and that you might enjoy reading it. So here we go…. It all started with a team photograph I chanced upon in our archive collectionContinue reading “The Bloaters”
Migration, Heritage and Belonging Project
By Sarah Lowndes, Migration, Heritage and Belonging Project Assistant I joined the team at Time and Tide Museum in January this year to work on a project called Migration, Heritage and Belonging, which involves researching artefacts in our collection collected by British missionaries on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia in Canada in the 1860s.Continue reading “Migration, Heritage and Belonging Project”
Basket Blog
By Phillip Miles, Exhibition Coordinator One of the recent projects we’ve been working on at Time and Tide Museum was a partnership project with Withy Arts, a local charity which uses traditional willow weaving art and other creative practices to engage with local people who would otherwise not have the chance to participate in artsContinue reading “Basket Blog”
Keeping Warm Fishergirl Style
By Patricia Day, Seaside Heritage Project Officer This image from our collection shows the fishers girls wrapped up well against the harsh easterly winds which are much cooler than today’s mild westerly. Many of the women would have travelled from the much less forgiving climes of Scotland’s east coast, some from as far north asContinue reading “Keeping Warm Fishergirl Style”
Working with Stored Time and Tide Natural History Collections
By Wednesday Batchelor, Collections Management Trainee Throughout my traineeship I have been working across all of the Norfolk Museums Service sites, including Great Yarmouth. I also work in the Norfolk Collections Centre, a designated collections storage facility situated at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum, where part of my role has included working with natural historyContinue reading “Working with Stored Time and Tide Natural History Collections”
Great Yarmouth and Waveney Pride
Earlier this year, Time and Tide Museum acquired a t-shirt from the first ever pride event in Great Yarmouth. This is the first object we have actively collected that represents the lives and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community. We hope it is the first of many. Today’s blog is written by the donor of theContinue reading “Great Yarmouth and Waveney Pride”
John Ives, The Original Curator
By Wayne Kett, Great Yarmouth and Cromer Museum’s Curator We have recently added a very exciting new acquisition to our collection. A tabard worn by John Ives and some associated objects including a 17th century bible and small oval portraits of Ives and his wife have been accessioned into the collection. John Ives was anContinue reading “John Ives, The Original Curator”
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