The Historical Trust’s collection began with the donation of a Trustee’s personal collection and has grown considerably.

The entire collection is being catalogued by the trustees using The Modes collection management database which is used by many accredited museums and galleries of varying size. Each item is appropriately packed and stored, with a second set of many items stored in a separate location.

All items are held in accordance with the Trust’s collection policy which is lodged with the Charity Commission. Once an item becomes an accession to the collection it receives a unique identification reference number, and its catalogue entry is retained permanently.

That entry is an invaluable asset to management of the collection. It enables us to distinguish between a loan and a donation, gives the item’s background, records who passed it to us, describes its condition, records its past and present location, and notes specific conditions which must apply to that item. It would be inappropriate to share much of that detail and impractical to give access to all records in an abridged form on this site. The catalogue is already extensive with many more items still to be sorted, evaluated, and catalogued.

Often we learn that items were destroyed or lost because no-one recognised their historical value. Please do not underestimate the possible importance of items you may consider insignificant. Single-sheet programmes, match tickets, travel tickets for a match, photographs you took at matches – anything relating to Norwich City may be of interest to us. Please make contact if you have something that might find a home in the collection.

You can explore some of the tens of thousands of items in the Historical Trust’s collection via this link.