Castle Capsule
27th August 2025
We are proud to have been asked to contribute to a time capsule buried in Norwich Castle’s foundations. We designed and made a tiny, robust object, which told the story of our recent activities with participants.
New Routes coordinates annual Refugees Week Norwich celebrations. Last year’s theme (2024, when Norfolk Museum Service approached us), was Home.
In preparation for RWN24 6 months of art workshops were held at St Martin, with our participants, run by Melanie Tilford from Art@Work. We also held a few workshops with local ceramics artist Vicki Moffatt, who donated us some of her materials and equipment.
Because of this groundwork, during RWN24 there was a group art show at Anteros Gallery which included our symbolic city of ‘dream homes’, plus our children and families’ mosaics, and art.
Our time-capsule artifact manages to combine all of these!
We made a small house, with a base of Norfolk Oak, coated in recycled ceramic pieces. Using some lettering we made the words HOME, and New Routes.
This June, at the end of RWN25, we were invited to attend a ceremony to seal our house into the foundations of the castle, just before it’s Grand Re-opening to the public. We joined the other contributors, castle conservators and historians to learn more about the renovations, to seal the objects into three capsules, and to place them into a cavity in the wall – which may, or may not be marked to make it more easily found in future. There is also a digital record of the objects kept in the castle files.
This was such an exciting and prestigious project to be part of – Thanks again to Norfolk Museums Service, for a great partnership over the years, through many Refugee Weeks, and for this very special opportunity!
Local News Coverage: www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/25305148.time-capsules-sealed-inside-walls-norwich-castle-keep/
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