FOUND - a poetry and visual art exhibition

Photograph of FOUND exhibition showing PVC banners and a glass case full of paper notes

Opening times, admission and location

Admission prices

Included in admission, free for Norfolk Museum Pass holders

Where we are

Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell, Bridewell Alley, Norwich, NR2 1AQ

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About FOUND - a poetry and visual art exhibition

This exhibition is the culmination of a special project to unlock the poetry of museum objects.

Photograph of heart-shaped post-it notes and paper saying things like 'Hot wheels lorries' — Image credit: notes for poems, FOUND, Museum of Norwich

For the past few months, celebrated Norwich-based poet, Daisy Henwood, has been working with the public and community groups to create poems inspired by some of the less well-known museum objects at three Norfolk Museums sites: Museum of Norwich, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, and Time and Time Museum of Great Yarmouth Life.

From gingham fabric samples to homemade dolls houses, Valentine's Day cards to Neolithic seed samples - the poetic potential of an eclectic collection of objects has been unlocked.

Photograph of pictures of shoes and lined paper cards with rhyming couplets on them — Image credit: community contributions for poems, FOUND, Museum of Norwich

Now artist JMC Anderson has created responses to the poems for this special installation at the Museum of Norwich. With clever word, colour and image play, the resulting artwork uses fragments from the poems printed onto PVC banners, as well as silk and digital prints.

Throughout the galleries, visitors can also see some of Daisy's poems printed as vinyls alongside the objects that inspired them.

FOUND is a fascinating exhibition reflecting the different ways we experience, and love, museums.

FOUND is funded by Arts Council England.