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Escape from Treasure Island! – Summer Holidays

An illustration of a giant octopus with a boat and a pirate crew battling the octopus

Escape to Treasure Island has now finished. Find out what’s on at National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

Be transported to Treasure Island this summer where all is not quite as it seems…

Escape from Treasure Island

11am, 12.15pm, 2pm, and 3.15pm

Join our heroes as they race to solve the clues, find the treasure and defeat the baddies. Will they outsmart the hungry gorilla intent on eating them, evade the clutches of the ghostly phantom zombie, avoid the slithering tentacles of the giant kraken AND escape the deadly jaws of the island’s resident crocodile? Find out this summer.

Will the treasure finally be theirs or will the dastardly pirate get his hands on the ultimate prize? Find out this summer at National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

Escape from Treasure Island runs four times a day (11am, 12.15pm, 2pm, and 3.15pm) from Monday 22 July to Sunday 1 September. Relaxed performances will take place every Sunday morning at 11am. For these performances, sensory elements will be reduced. Before the performance starts, a member of the cast will introduce some of the sensory elements that will feature in the show. Loud noises will be reduced throughout the performance. There will be a dedicated quiet space available in the Museum during the performances and the performance schedule. The quiet space is located on the second floor in the Sunley Lecture Theatre.

Treasure Map Trail

Hunt around the Museum and find stamps to create your very own treasure map. Add them to your trail and decide where to hide your pirate plunder!

Make & Take

12.30pm to 3.30pm (last entry 3.15pm)

Make your very own paper pirate ship, fashion a pirate hat, make a flying parrot wrist puppet or colour in and decorate your treasure map trail.

A girl using scissors to cut up paper in a craft workshop at National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

What else is at National Maritime Museum Cornwall?

Explore 15 galleries over five floors, jump aboard RNLI boats, climb the 100-foot Lookout Tower, go underwater in the Tidal Zone, uncover ocean adventures and survival stories and sail miniature boats on the Waterfront Boat Pool. Plus, have fun in the Skull Island Play Zone and learn about Cornish maritime history in our Cornwall galleries.