Crowds queued outside the museum, with people eager to be among the first to see how the five-year-long Royal Palace Reborn revamp has restored the original floor levels of the 900-year-old keep.

Queues at Norwich Castle as the keep reopened (Image: Sonya Duncan)

New rooms and colourful furniture show how the rooms, including the King's Chamber and Great Hall would have looked in Norman times.

The King's Chamber in the revamped keep at Norwich Castle (Image: Sonya Duncan)

New lifts and a bridge have made the battlements accessible to all visitors, while a new medieval gallery features world-class objects loaned from the British Museum.

An actor portraying Henry I welcomed visitors into the castle on Thursday (August 7) morning, after one of the monarch's guards proclaimed it open.

'Henry I' welcomed visitors back into the keep (Image: Sonya Duncan)

A stream of visitors made for the keep to see the fruits of the transformation, which started in 2020.

They applauded a new animation projected on to keep's walls, telling the story of the Grade I-listed castle and medieval Norwich.

Animated projections on the walls of the revamped keep at Norwich Castle (Image: Sonya Duncan)

And new display boards revealed details that people might not have noticed before, including a spiral........

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