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Norwich Castle Keep – A Royal Palace Reborn

Tue 12 May 2026, 1pm

Djanogly Theatre

£3.50 (free concessions)

Concession prices available.

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This event is sold out. Please contact our box office on 0115 846 7777 to be added to the waiting list.

Join Dr Tim Pestell FSA, Senior Curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, for a talk on the Castle’s imposing Norman Keep.

Discover how its £27m transformation – one of the UK’s largest recent heritage projects and featured on Channel 4 – has recreated original rooms, fittings and furnishings, and introduced the new Gallery of Medieval Life, developed with the British Museum.

Image: Norwich Castle © Norfolk Museum Service

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