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Ticket PricesPay once, get in all year Adults £18.00 Children (Under 18s) £9.00 Children (Under 5s) Free
Getting here National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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Contact Tel: +44(0)1326 313388 Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
The Museum enjoys a close partnership with many companies which have assisted in different ways. The money we raise through these partnerships makes an invaluable contribution to enhancing our displays…
“Pilchards! Whose bodies yield the fragrant oil and make the London lamps at midnight smile!” Peter Pindar 1783 (Pen name of John Wolcot, 1738-1819, who achieved fame in the 1780s…
Falmouth docks have a long and complex history and are as much an integral part of the port now as ever. With the removal of the Packet service in 1850,…
Reuben Chappell (1870-1940) is one of this country’s best known ship portrait painters. An artist who spent his entire working life making portraits of ships for seamen, his work is…
On Friday 19th January 1940, in heavy weather, the British steamer Kirkpool foundered on Castle Beach in Falmouth. The ship, belonging to Messrs R Ropner & Co., had been anchored…
The story of Donald Campbell’s death on Coniston Water, whilst attempting the world water speed record in Bluebird, is well documented. Less well known is that, up to the time…
Offshore cruising in an open boat can be hard, cold, wet, lonely and occasionally miserable, but it is exhilarating too. To take an open dinghy across a hundred miles of…
What you are looking at is cutting edge 1930s technology.What we have here is a Hudson Folding Dinghy, an unusual collapsible dinghy designed and made by R J Hudson (Dick)…
Traditional Thames rowing boats, the type of craft described in Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’, have four distinct styles. The largest boats are the magnificent ceremonial barges…
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