Norfolk Museums and Archaeological services recently received funding from the Esmee Fairbairn foundation, one of the UK’s largest independent grant-making foundations, to revamp our superstore. The superstore is a highly secure building where larger items in the Norfolk Museum’s reserve collections are held; think Asda but full of museum collections. The aim of the project is to reorganise the space and create access to the stored collection which will benefit both members of the public and museum staff.
We are currently working with a number of curators across the county to compile a list of objects that are our ‘stars of the stores’. Once the project is complete they will have pride of place in the museum store. These objects have been selected for a number of reasons including their popular appeal, historical significance and for the interesting stories they tell. As a sneaky preview we hope to include local…
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