Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
This award-winning museum opened in 2004 and is located in a Grade II Victorian herring-curing factory. The museum provides a 2-3 hour visit and tells Great Yarmouth’s fascinating story from prehistoric times to the present day.
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Great Yarmouth Potteries & Herring Smoking Museum
A unique group of buildings nestled against the 700 year old Town Wall. The full working pottery is housed within the building.
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Tolhouse Museum
The Tolhouse, built in the 13th Century, is one of the oldest civic buildings in the East of England. It has served as a private house, Tollhouse, court, council chamber, and town gaol. Today it is a museum, which explores the compelling story of crime and punishment in Great Yarmouth.
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Elizabethan House
Experience the lives of the families who lived in this charming house from Tudor to Victorian times.
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Row 111, Old Merchants’ House and Greyfriars Cloisters
Step back in time and experience the sights and sounds of the Great Yarmouth of yesteryear with an escorted tour of three buildings on South Quay in the company of an English Heritage custodian.
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Norfolk Nelson Museum
This attractive museum celebrates the life and times of Horatio Nelson, England’s famous naval hero.
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Nelsons Monument/ The Norfolk Pillar
In 1819, a column was erected in the South Denes area of the town in memory of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson – 30 years before the column in Trafalgar Square.
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Town Hall
Yarmouth’s magnificent Town Hall, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1882, epitomises the town’s former wealth and illustrates the status created by it maritime industries.
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Other Historic Sites
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