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Olive Edis exhibition Olive Edis exhibition

Visit this Victorian fisherman's cottage and find out what life was like in Cromer in the 19th century.

Photographs and illustrations in the Old Cromer Gallery document the town's history as a Victorian seaside holiday resort, known for its fine hotels and scandalous mixed bathing. Meanwhile the geology gallery contains an amazing collection of fossils, including the famous West Runton Elephant.


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Cromer Museum

East Cottages, Tucker Street, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9HB

01263 513 543

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Opening times

1 Mar – 31 Oct Mon – Fri, 10am – 4pm Sat –Sun 12noon – 4pm

Free entry with National Art Pass

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Exhibitions nearby

Frances Kearney, Five People Thinking the Same Thing, 1998

Visible Women

Elisabeth Frink, Bird, 1952

Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals

Ken Kiff, S15 Red face, spilt cup, sunface, man and tree

Ken Kiff: The Sequence

Circus performer with doves and parrots at Great Yarmouth’s Hippodrome in 1963

Circus! Show of Shows

Art we’ve helped buy at Cromer Museum

Collection of photographic prints, autochromes & negatives
 Acquired 2008

Thanks to an Art Fund grant, the museum displays a nationally important collection of photographs by pioneering North Norfolk photographer Olive Edis. The photographs, taken between 1905 and 1955, include sepia images of fisherman from Cromer and Sheringham, and a rare series of autochromes – the first true colour photographs. Edis was also renowned for her portraiture and the collection contains her photographs of King George VI, David Lloyd George, Thomas Hardy and Cromer lifeboat hero Henry Blogg.

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