Community + collaborations

How exciting is this? As part of our ground-breaking new exhibition, ‘Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed’ we’ve joined forces with handmade British jewellery designers, Tatty Devine, to create a bespoke new collection of pieces inspired by the first celebrated female tattoo artist, Jessie Knight. Tatty Devine, renowned for their playful work with laser cut acrylic jewellery,…

A brand new publishing initiative SPECIAL PRICE: £5 PLUS P + P – email enquires@nmmc.co.uk to buy a copy 2017 saw us launch the first issue of brand new publishing initiative, FATHOM, an annual journal of writing, art and photography. Inspired by and expanding on the museum’s permanent collections, temporary exhibitions and wider cultural connections,…

An exclusive video from our opening night 17 March 2017 saw the opening night and press preview of the highly anticipated 2017 exhibitions: Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed and Captain Bligh: Myth, Man and Mutiny at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth. Art Fund Director, Dr Stephen Deuchar, opened the exhibitions, guests were treated…

A living exhibit Our 2017 exhibition Captain Bligh: Myth, Man and Mutiny features a specially built reproduction of the Bounty launch, giving a very real sense of the situation of the 18 men who sailed it over 3600 nautical miles across the Pacific. The launch is currently being built, in house, in the museum’s boat building workshop,…

Our first ever artist in residence A new sculpture exhibition On Friday, 11 November 2016, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, on Discovery Quay Falmouth, will open a new sculpture exhibition by its first ever ‘artist in residence’. A man of many talents Rob Johnsey, a boatbuilder, sailor and sculptor, is not only the museum’s first…