The Museum of Small & Overlooked Things

The Museum of Small and Overlooked Things is a new free museum in Norwich, created by hundreds of local children using objects generously loaned from their own private collections.

Artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington will work with students from four local schools (Mile Cross Primary School, Tuckswood Academy, The Free School Norwich, Wensum Junior School) to curate the collection of objects, which they believe adults may otherwise overlook or consider unimportant.

Visitors to the museum can marvel at its collection of miniature treasures; stuffed toys and pet rocks, objects handed down from generation to generation and objects found in the street. They can take an audio-tour to learn what makes these objects so precious and important, and purchase their own souvenir in the museum gift shop.

Inside the museum’s glass cabinets are contained not only the stories of the hundreds of children who helped create it, but perhaps also an answer to the question of who it is that gets to decide what matters, and where and how those decisions are made.

Presented in partnership with The Forum, as part of their 25^th anniversary celebrations.