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Museums at Night in Norfolk
The Museums at Night festival, from 25 to 27 October, will see venues across the area open their doors for exciting evening events and spectacular night-time displays.
Museums at Night was created to encourage new visitors to go to galleries and museums. The festival began in 2009 when 100 events were held across the country.
Museums at Night offers visitors the chance to experience some of the UK’s cultural venues, historic houses and museums in a new way. Activities that usually take place range from gallery gigs, art happenings, twilight screenings, all-night sleepovers, nature walks, and star gazing activities.
The October festival coincides with Halloween so many museums will be putting on events with a Halloween theme - from spooky sleepovers and story-telling to ghost tours. Many of the fun, family-friendly events will include dressing up, kids’ games, spooky stories around Halloween, movie screening and the opportunity to learn more. From trains to chemistry, comic books, true crime, fairy tale dress up, and more, there’s something to appeal to everyone.
See www.museumsatnight.org.uk to read more about the occasion
Visit 10 of Norfolk’s best museums…
You don’t need a Tardis to travel through time this autumn. At Norfolk Museums you can see, touch and even smell the past, without the remotest risk of catching the Black Death or being eaten by a dinosaur!
Dress up as a Tudor, or an Ancient Egyptian, meet a Roman, sniff the whiff of a Victorian herring works; discover the fate of witches and murderers – or just let off steam in the amazing adventure playground.
With so much to do - craft activities, spooky Halloween fun and circus skills - and so many places to visit, from gaol cells to a fish wharf, a medieval castle to a Victorian workhouse and working farm, the possibilities are endless.
Find out about key figures including Queen Boudica, Duleep Singh - the last Maharajah, and revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine, as well as the lives of ordinary people, fishermen, rabbit warreners, herring girls and soldiers.
Play children’s games from days-gone-by; see a giant shoe, strange machinery that knits wire netting, a fairground galloper and Seahenge – a 4,000 year old Bronze Age circle – and so much more...
Whether you are visiting to learn, or just to have fun, you might just do both. For more information visit: www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
Learning with Museums in Norfolk
Museums are learning resources that provide inspiration, information, unique experiences - and entertain. They can support the delivery of a wide range of national curriculum subjects including specialist knowledge for the history curriculum, inspiration for art and drama, opportunities to improve English skills and make an important contribution to the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum.
Museums contain a treasure trove of artefacts, documents and photographs, just waiting to be discovered. They can provide workshop activities, topic-based visits, guided visits, handling boxes for loan, visits to schools, downloadable resources and much more.
Talk to your local museum to find out what they can offer to support the national curriculum, develop skills and help raise standards.