Time and Tide Museum facts for kids
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| Former name | Tower Curing Works |
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| Established | 2005 |
| Location | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK |
| Type | Maritime museum |
The Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life is a really interesting museum in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. It's all about the sea and fishing history of this area. The museum opened its doors in 2005. What makes it special is that it's inside an old Victorian factory. This factory used to prepare herring fish and was known as the Tower Curing Works. Today, it's part of a group called Maritime Heritage East, which connects many sea-themed museums.
Museum History
The old fish factory, called the Tower Curing Works, stopped working in the mid-1980s. The building then sat empty for almost 20 years.
A lot of money, over £4.5 million, was spent to fix up and change the old factory into a modern museum. This building is so important that it's a Grade II listed factory. The museum opened in 2005. It took in many cool items from Great Yarmouth's old Maritime Museum, which had closed a few years earlier in 2002.
In 2019, the museum hosted a special exhibition called "British Tattoo Art Revealed." It showed more than 400 items about tattoos in Britain. In 2021, some artworks by Peter Henry Emerson were also shown at the museum. A famous mural by the artist Banksy was temporarily moved to the museum in 2022. This mural had appeared in Gorleston-on-Sea and was moved for safekeeping.
Awards and Recognition
The Time and Tide Museum has won several awards and been recognized for its great work:
- It was a finalist for the Gulbenkian Prize Museum of the Year in 2005.
- It was also a finalist for the European Museum of the Year award in 2006.
- The museum won the Objective 2 Celebrate Award (Tourism Category) in 2006.
- It also received the Eastern Daily Press Design & Development Award in 2006.
