New details about how a popular Norfolk museum would be transformed if a £4.3m National Lottery bid is successful have been revealed - including an image of how it could look.
And museum bosses have revealed a new partnership with the renowned Royal Museums Greenwich in London could see objects from the collection of the National Maritime Museum on show in Great Yarmouth.
Norfolk museum chiefs are waiting to hear if they will get the Heritage Fund cash to make make major changes to Great Yarmouth's Time and Tide Museum.
The Changing Tides - Shaping Our Great Yarmouth project would create new spaces for visitors, including by enclosing the museum's courtyard with a glazed roof.
Norfolk County Council has released an artist's impression of how that would look, creating a flexible 'indoor atrium' at the heart of the museum for use by visitors, schools and community groups.
It would also provide a space which the museum could use to host larger public events, while protecting the museum's fleet of historic fishing boats.
The upper floors of the museum, in Blackfriars' Road, which opened in a former Victorian herring curing works in 2004, would also be given a revamp, with digital technology used to make visits more interactive.
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A report which will come before councillors states: "It is generally accepted that the maritime displays and story of the smokehouse and herring industry are told well and sympathetically to the historic building.
"However, the upper floor ‘early years’ galleries which tell the story of the development of the town through archaeology and art displays, are interpreted in a slightly dated fashion with an object rather than person-centred interpretation approach.
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"The redisplay will also allow us to open up hidden heritage assets of the building, such as increasing the number of exposed original smokehouse doors currently hidden behind text panels, revealing Victorian ironwork currently hidden behind bulky display cases and using new lighting technology to reduce our carbon footprint and showcase the collections to the highest possible standard."
The council is expecting to find out whether the bid has been successful in the spring.
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