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NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM. 
Museum collections, comprises the whole 
series of galleries in which they are 
exhibited. There is, however, only one 
building which rightly deserves the name, the great 
square Norman Keep. ‘The rest of the buildings, 
surrounded by the granite-faced wall, are the modern 
prison buildings, which were appended to the Keep by 
the County Magistrates in 1824. That has constituted 
their only history until now, when they have been 
dexterously converted into Museum Galleries. 
To Mr. John Gurney is owing the inception and 
launching of the grand idea which has resulted in 
the present beautiful and commodious galleries, and 
we are indebted to Mr. J. H. Gurney for the principal 
of the treasures which fill them. Neither of these 
gentlemen, however, lived to see the completion of 
the work in which they took so great an interest. 
The way in which Mr. Boardman performed the 
very difficult task of converting what had formerly 
