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.

History

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

Time and Tide Museum

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.

Time and Tide Museum

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

Time and Tide Museum

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

References

External links

Official site at Museums Norfolk

Museums in Norfolk

Maritime museums in England

Local museums in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth