Time and Tide Museum

Maritime museum in Norfolk, UK

Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life


Former name	Tower Curing Works
Established	2005 (2005)
Location	Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK
Type	Maritime museum
Website	www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/time-tide

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.^{[citation needed]}

History

The curing works was closed down in the mid-1980s, and the building lay unused for almost 20 years.^[1]

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.^[1]

In 2019, the museum set up a British Tattoo Art Revealed exhibition, which features over 400 items concerning tattoos in Britain.^[2] A town-wide exhibition of works from Peter Henry Emerson was partially on display at the Museum in 2021.^[3] 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.^[4]

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^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "BBC - Norfolk A Sense Of Place - A sea of changes at Time And Tide". BBC News. 22 March 2005. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^ "Time and Tide Museum: Tattooists' artworks go on display". BBC News. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^ "Peter Henry Emerson: Great Yarmouth exhibition celebrates photographer". BBC News. 5 June 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^ "Gorleston Banksy: Artwork covered up over girl's death to be moved". BBC News. 22 January 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^ Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: Time and Tide Archived 7 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine