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

Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a coastal town in Norfolk, England. It is at the mouth of the River Yare, east of Norwich.It has been a seaside resort since 1760, and is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea...

, Norfolk

Norfolk

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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

Victorian era

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 herring

Herring

Herring is an oily fish of the genus Clupea, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Three species of Clupea are recognized. The main taxa, the Atlantic herring and the Pacific herring may each be divided into subspecies...

 curing

Curing (food preservation)

Curing refers to various food preservation and flavoring processes, especially of meat or fish, by the addition of a combination of salt, nitrates, nitrite or sugar. Many curing processes also involve smoking, the process of flavoring, or cooking...

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

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....

 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:

• Gulbenkian Prize
  Gulbenkian Prize
  The Art Fund Prize, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence"...
  
   Museum of the Year Finalist 2005

• European Museum of the Year Finalist 2006

• Objective 2 Celebrate Award Winner (Tourism Category) 2006

• Eastern Daily Press
  Eastern Daily Press
  The Eastern Daily Press, commonly referred to as the EDP, is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, and northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich, UK....
  
  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.

External links

• Official site
• http://www.culture24.org.uk/am19771
• http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=200.44
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/senseofplace/time_and_tide_museum.shtml
• Maritime Heritage East