Workshops, courses and resources for children and families at Norwich Castle
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Activities for under 5s
Planning a visit with a child under 5? Here are some of the things we have at Norwich Castle to help you play and explore the galleries together!
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Snapdragons and snaplings
Baby and toddler groups at Norwich Castle. Join us each month to explore, play, discover and giggle together!
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A Norwich Bestiary poetry trail
Follow our trail around the city of Norwich, visiting historic sites and listening to poems at each stop
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Writing Bellotto
Award-winning writer Belona Greenwood collaborated with children from Browick Road Primary School in Wymondham, transforming their responses to Bernardo Bellotto's masterpiece.
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ST*ART Spaces: Crome, Texture and Tales
Get creative and explore how the activities and atmosphere of the everyday is captured in John Crome's work.
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Get a Move on
How does being in an art gallery really make you feel? Let's explore how we feel about things rather than what we know about them.
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Scribe School
Draw beasts, conjure tales and design a manuscript!
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ST*ART Spaces: Turner, Landscape and Light
We're investigating the use of light in art, focusing on one of England's most famous painters, JMW Turner, and his masterpiece Walton Bridges.
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Super Stitchers!
Each Super Stitchers resource explores a different beautiful and unique object in the museum's collection and guides you through a series of related activities to try at home.
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Crome Off The Wall
Free downloadable activities that take John Crome out of Norwich Castle and into your home, from sign-making to writing secret letters, Georgian-style!
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ST*ART Online
Norwich Castle's arts and creativity programmes for children and young people
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YouTube
Explore exciting new ways to experience our collection, including expert talks from curators, virtual tours of the Norman Keep, fantastic family-friendly learning videos and much more!
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In the Picture... Out of the Dark
As the days grow darker, we're taking a look at the artist Marc Chagall's colourful and otherworldly painting L'Artiste dans son Atelier (The Artist in his Studio) c.1930.
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In the Picture...Out of the House!
As part of a partnership with The National Gallery, we're exploring a masterpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Bernardo Bellotto.