Ambitious plans to transform a popular Norfolk museum are being revived, with a fresh bid to secure millions of pounds for the major revamp.

Museum bosses are putting together a "rescoped" bid to secure more than £4m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for changes at Great Yarmouth's Time and Tide Museum.

A bid lodged last year to secure cash for the Changing Tides - Shaping Our Great Yarmouth project failed to win favour.

But, following "useful feedback" from lottery officials, Norfolk Museums Service is gearing up to submit a new application.

Great Yarmouth's Time and Tide MuseumGreat Yarmouth's Time and Tide Museum (Image: Angela Sharpe)

Andrew Smith, museums operations manager for the eastern and western areas, said: "The museums team are looking to rescope this exciting project with the aim of resubmitting at an appropriate point in 2025."

A report which will go before councillors states: "We will again work with a leading museum and heritage interpretation consultancy and will develop a new interpretation strategy for the galleries across the museum to support this new application.

"Many areas of the visitor journey would be redisplayed in new and engaging ways giving us the opportunity to showcase different collections and explore new maritime themes.

"This would include placing more of our stored collections on display in new accessible ways, increasing interactive opportunities and displaying objects and cases at the height of children to allow them to engage fully with the heritage."

The Time and Tide Museum in Great YarmouthThe Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth (Image: James Bass)

The previous proposal included creating new spaces for visitors, with the museum's courtyard to be enclosed with a glazed roof.

Museum bosses are keen to use a partnership with the renowned Royal Museums Greenwich in London, to bring objects from that collection to Great Yarmouth.

A pilot project means the painting of The Wreck of the Gloucester off Yarmouth by Johan Danckerts is displayed in the museum.

The wreck of the Gloucester off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682, by Johan DanckertsThe wreck of the Gloucester off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682, by Johan Danckerts (Image: Royal Museums Greenwich / Wikipedia Commons) The Gloucester shipwreck was discovered off the Norfolk coast in 2007 and was the focus of a major exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum.

Time and Tide, in Blackfriars Road, opened in a former Victorian herring curing works in 2004.