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This institution also provides a list of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933-1945.

Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service

Twelve Museums in a county museums service. Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery is a Designated collection.

Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
Shirehall
Market Avenue
Norwich
NR1 3JQ

CONTACT:

Martin Warren, Collections Management Officer
Tel: 01603 493654
Fax: 01603 765651
E-mail: martin.warren.mus@norfolk.gov.uk

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION

The Castle Museum is the largest of the 12 museums in the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service with collections of Fine Art, Decorative Art, Archaeology, Natural History and Social History. Overall there are approximately 3 million objects in the county collections. The bulk of the fine art collection is at Norwich Castle and consists of 1200 paintings and 10,000 drawings and watercolours. These are mainly by artists of the Norwich School, most notably the R.J. Colman bequest 1946. It is highly unlikely that any of this collection ever left the UK.

1. OVERALL PLANS

Areas which could contain looted items
Potentially all works created before 1945 and acquired by the relevant donor or testator after January 1933.

PARTS OF COLLECTIONS EXCLUDED

• Works acquired by donor or testator before 1933.
• Works created after 1945.
• Works with an exclusively British provenance

RESEARCH
Research has been undertaken in the area of Norwich School Fine Art - paintings and drawings and non-Norwich School. Lists of works with broken provenances were published in May 2001. Since then searches have been widened to include decorative art and archaeology which has resulted in the addition of one piece of medieval sculpture to the original list.

2. RESEARCH IN TARGET AREAS

METHOD OF RESEARCH
The Castle Museum and Art Gallery fine art old master prints and drawings - manual and computerised records have been searched. Nine works have been identified for which no firm provenance could be established during the critical period, and the list was published in May 2001.

Curators of branch museums with art collections (King's Lynn, Yarmouth, Thetford out of 12 museums in the county service) have been asked for information about possible material to be included but these collections have been identified as limited to works of local relevance only.

3. INFORMATION ON MAKING GENERAL ENQUIRIES ABOUT COLLECTION

Contacts
John Davies
Chief Curator
Norwich Castle Study Centre.
Shirehall
Market Avenue,
Norwich NR1 3JQ
john.davies@norfolk.gov.uk

Norwich Castle art collections
Norma Watt
Norwich Castle Study Centre
Shirehall
Market Avenue
Norwich NR1 3JQ
norma.watt@norfolk.gov.uk

Caroline Ellis, Registrar
Norwich Castle Study Centre
Shirehall
Market Avenue
Norwich NR1 3JQ
caroline.ellis@norfolk.gov.uk
telephone 01603 493644

Archives

Departmental archive enquiries are handled by curators on a regular basis. Please apply to the address above.
General enquiries: Norwich Castle Study Centre reception 01603 493625

Website

NMAS website: http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk