Decorative arts gallery
The Arts of Living Gallery shows how the decorative arts reflect style through the ages, beginning in the year 1400 and continuing right up to the present day.
The objects, which include metalwork, pottery and textiles, tell many stories, and many different factors affect their appearance - historical, technical, aesthetic, political and personal.
Norwich, the second city of England until the late 18th century, played an important role in the development of the decorative arts and their manufacture. Many products of lasting national and international significance, especially textiles and silver, were made here.
This and the adjacent Decorative Arts and the Wider World Gallery also act as a gateway to the decorative art collections in our other Norwich museums - Strangers' Hall and the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell.
Norwich Castle has the largest collection of British ceramic teapots in the world. The Twining Teapot Gallery displays a beautiful selection of these, dating from the early eighteenth century until the present.