Norwich: Archaeology of a Fine City

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Find out more about a common soldier's life during the English Civil War, try on his armour and see the different weapons he would have used. Activities run 11am — 4pm and are included with admission. Take our special trail to find out Does the time fit the crime?

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Enjoy entry to both The Tolhouse and Elizabethan House with fun activities and costumed characters planned across the two sites. Cromer Museum was once home to families of fisher-folk who relied on the sea for their survival. Get hands-on with prehistoric objects.

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Bring along your own finds and help to create a Stone Age wall painting. Meet monsters and mini-beasts with a creepy-crawly handling session and a chance to learn about the monsters of prehistory.

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For opening times and admission charges for the Norfolk Museums, visit www. Find out what's on Publish your event. Fun for all the family with August activities at Norfolk Museums. Exciting bonus events include: Exhibitions The Paston Treasure: Visible Women Brings together work from the modern and contemporary collection by women artists, including Barbara Hepworth, Peggy Somerville and Bridget Riley. NEW — Time-travelling escape game! Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Enjoy a summer of discovery with over 50 acres of unspoilt Norfolk countryside to explore, including an adventure playground, traditional working farm and the evocative stories and objects in the Voices from the Workhouse displays.

There are family activities planned for every day of the week until 5 September.

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Daily until 12 August — A Walk in the Woods Discover more about the trees of Gressenhall with our daily nature-themed activities. Make friends with a mammoth Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse shares a site with the Norfolk Collection Centre, home of the most complete skeleton of a Steppe Mammoth ever found.

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He is said to have given his rabble-rousing speech in a Norwich public house in Their arrival in Norwich boosted trade with mainland Europe and fostered a movement toward religious reform and radical politics in the city. It remains to be seen whether it will be finally adopted. Archived from the original on 2 January Papers of the "Medieval Europe Brugge " Conference p.

Remembering the Maharajah This connection is explored in a special exhibition at the museum, centred around Casualty of War: New trails to explore Explore the museum in a different way with a changing programme of trails. Discovery Days Join us for our special summer Discovery Days.

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Lynn Museum The museum in the centre of the town is home to a treasure trove of objects that tell the stories of thousands of years of history. Animal ABC This lovely new exhibition offers the chance to explore the animal kingdom, from ammonite to zebra, and runs throughout the summer holidays. This exhibition brings new discoveries to light, helping visitors to understand the significance of this extraordinary castle — one of the most important surviving Norman buildings in Western Europe.

Along this fascinating journey, visitors will come across many surprises which the Castle has housed over the years — from a Japanese Samurai suit of armour to a s draught bitter, from fine medieval jewellery to graffiti etched in stone. The opening section, Royal Palace , explores the origins of Norwich Castle from its original timber structure to the hugely impressive Caen stone edifice completed under the rule of King Henry I in Visitors will see models depicting the Castle in its heyday, beautiful archaeological finds from the medieval period and the very first evidence of a prisoner being held in the Castle Keep.

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During that period the building underwent several different phases of modification as attitudes towards prisoners and prison reform evolved over the centuries. Daniell and David Hodgson, striking examples of which are shown in this display. This left the future of the Castle uncertain but the idea of a museum won over, ensuring its presence in the City for generations to come.

The Conversion section of the exhibition explores the vision and legacy of the architect of this change, Edward Boardman, including architectural plans which show the evolution of his ideas - never seen in public before. To enable Gurney to understand his plans, therefore, Boardman re-created their outlines using sand to produce a version which Gurney could interpret through touch.

Photographs from this period show the Castle as a roofless shell and its gradual evolution into the form which we have today. The next section, Museum, begins with the opening of the Norwich Castle Museum in and brings the experience of the building into living memory.

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Brian Ayers has lived in Norwich for thirty years. He was the County Archaeologist for Norfolk until and is now Director of the Butrint Foundation which. The city of Norwich is renowned for its Norman castle, its cathedral and flint city walls, parts of which are still visible today. It is, and was, a 'Fine.

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