@NorfolkMuseums Service are currently recruiting for a Registrar (Maternity Cover)! 🏰
This role involves working with colleagues across the county, managing the loans out programme and supporting a diverse range of collections management activities 🤗
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Join us at @FoodMuseumUK on 17th May for a session that will equip you with everything you need to dispose of museum collections ethically and legally! Book now bit.ly/3rZiAfr
“.....huddled into a hollow and along the cliff edge, the little village of Cromer, and a quarter of a mile out to sea the tide rolls in and rolls out over the lost town of Shipden”
For more on the Story of Shipden see our latest blog....... yarmouthmuseums.wordpress.co…
From the Norwich School of Artists and the Dutch and Flemish painters who inspired them to contemporary paintings, explore highlights from @NorwichCastle
'The Paston Treasure (formerly titled 'The Yarmouth Collection')' Dutch School 📸 Norfolk Museums Service @Castle_Art
We are so excited to be launching our new Community Culture Club next week. Enjoy a morning out, get creative and make new friends. If you would like to know more, please contact rosalind.hewett@norfolk.gov.uk
#adultlearning#wellbeing@NorwichCastle
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New donation of around 600 horseflies to be incorporated into the @NHM_Diptera collection. All have to have accession labels and barcodes added to them, & then the data uploaded to our database @NHM_London@NHM_Digitise#taxonomy. Lovely things 🥰
40 years ago, 7 beautiful gold snuff boxes were stolen from @TempleNewsam.
They were pinched from the Chinese Drawing Room, and the culprit was never identified.
But anyway.
We’ve just found them.
Tomorrow, Wed 10th Nov at 5.30pm GMT, join Dr Francesca Vanke, Keeper of Art & Senior Curator at @NorwichCastle (@Castle_Art) for an exploration of works from the collection
🔓 Art Unlocked is an online talk series brought to you by Art UK in collaboration with @BloombergDotOrg
At 5.30pm GMT on Wed 10th Nov, join Dr Francesca Vanke, Keeper of Art and Senior Curator at @NorwichCastle (@Castle_Art) for an exploration of works from their collection
🔓 Art Unlocked is an online talk series brought to you by Art UK in collaboration with @BloombergDotOrg
Don't forget you can still do this free course or recommend it to your colleagues or students: Country Houses & the British Empire, featuring the top researchers in this field. Accessible, humane and wide-ranging, it's suitable for absolutely anyone
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2000 people have joined this course in just a few days. Shows the widespread interest in this topic. You can still join this free online course by my project #ColonialCountrysidefuturelearn.com/courses/coun…
Becca told whole story at one of our events a couple of years back, (what to do if six hurricanes hit your art collection in quick succession,flood the building the emergency services can't really help). And how she built something incredibly constructive out of the aftermath.
If you’ve enjoyed our autumn paintings (and are shopping early for Christmas!) you might like to know that prints of these paintings can be ordered from our @Artuk shop artuk.org/shop/featured-coll… where you’ll find 171 art works from our collections available framed or unframed.
JOB VACANCY: Assistant Curator - Object Collections/Provenance - work as part of team caring for the @Pitt_Rivers global object collections, focussing on provenance work of human remains, collections management support & working with descendant communities bit.ly/3aO6bCa