Museum of Cornish Life
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Step through the unassuming doors of the Museum of Cornish Life for a truly breath-taking surprise. The museum is housed in the town's historic Market Buildings and is spread over three floors. The thousands of objects will keep you fascinated and entertained. Watch this film to see a selection of our favorite objects. Know more about our exhibitions and events.
Museum of Cornish Life
1w ago
Tehmina Goskar, Research Curator, talks about the museum’s dairy-related objects as part of an ongoing major review of our farming collections. A critical part of our Farmers will like it project is to review the collections we already have and get to know them again. As well as good museum practice to monitor the condition
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Museum of Cornish Life
2w ago
As a writer, when you put your work into the world you don’t really know what will happen to it. You hope that someone will enjoy it. You hope that someone may learn from it. You might even dare to hope that it’s made someone think. Sometimes you get comments back, and that is genuinely,
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Museum of Cornish Life
2M ago
The museum , in conjunction with Trevow Helston, is undertaking a piece of research into the history of theatre in Helston. Whilst there is a rich history of amateur dramatic groups in Helston and its environs, the history of professional theatre and theatres in the area is more difficult to determine. Many areas in Cornwall
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Museum of Cornish Life
3M ago
Research Curator, Tehmina Goskar gives an update on our farming heritage research project. In April 2023 we began work on our conservation and contemporary documentation project, Farmers will like it, in earnest thanks to funding by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund. We named our project after a headline in the newspapers describing the
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Museum of Cornish Life
3M ago
2023 has been a bumper year for the Museum of Cornish Life. Here’s a round-up of some 2023 highlights in numbers… In the Museum 2023 Behind the Scenes 2023 Museum of Cornish Life Team 2023 The Museum in the Community 2023 The Museum as a Charity in 2023 ..read more
Museum of Cornish Life
4M ago
In 1980 Martin Matthews became Kerrier District Council’s first paid Museum Officer. Under his direction considerable redisplays and expansion of the museum took place with a new display space in the former Meat Market in 1983 and in 1999 the opening up of the Drill Hall. During this time the museums much loved set-piece displays
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Museum of Cornish Life
5M ago
We are delighted that our Serpentine Turner’s Workshop has been nominated for Object of the Year at the Cornwall Heritage Awards! The workshop was donated by the family of Mr Vivian Buosustow, a serpentine turner from Church Cove, who was involved in all stages of production, from quarrying to finishing and sales. Serpentine, so named
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Museum of Cornish Life
6M ago
In July we were delighted to welcome Kusi Colonna-Preti as she volunteered two weeks of her time to the museum. Kusi works at the Archaeological Service in Barcelona for the City Council. Here she undertakes preventive and remedial conservation of finds recovered from archaeological projects in Barcelona municipality, mainlyceramics, mosaic, stone and organic material. Kusi
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Museum of Cornish Life
9M ago
In the dead of night in August 1976, a man crept around the back of the Camborne Free Library, smashed a window, and climbed up the stairs to the location of Camborne Museum. He forced open one cabinet and smashed another. He took £1600 worth of snuffboxes and disappeared back into the night. Julia Webb-Harvey,
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Museum of Cornish Life
9M ago
Through the museum’s entrance and into the Butter Market there resides a cider press surrounded by various cider bottles. It is an impressive object constructed circa 1750 which required intensive labour to even move it from its previous location in Trelowarren Estate, Mawgan. The museum’s cider press has a total estimated weight of five and
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