Learning

National Maritime Museum Cornwall has launched a brand new British Sign Language (BSL) guided tour. The new BSL tour aims to help Deaf BSL users gain a better understanding of the unique story of the Museum and get more from their visit. With over 50,000 Deaf people using BSL as their first language in the…

Our 2019 May Half term activities have now finishes – but don’t worry we’re busy planning for our next action-packed half term at National Maritime Museum Cornwall. This May half term (Monday 27 – Friday 31 May) National Maritime Museum Cornwall is packed to the gunwales with great things to do for all the family, including…

Hevva! Hevva! This horn looks quite ordinary, but it played an incredibly special role in Cornish history. It belongs to a period where the pilchard industry was one of the keystones of the Cornish economy. The seasonal pilchard fishery supported communities across the county and provided a key export of fish to Mediterranean countries, as…

“Pilchards! Whose bodies yield the fragrant oil and make the London lamps at midnight smile!” Peter Pindar 1783. Cornwall once relied upon the sea for nearly everything: food, transport, trade, defence and contact with the outside world. Fishing was always a vital part of the Cornish way of life and in the 18th and 19th…

Where we introduce you to some of the stories behind objects in the Museum… This model is a scale replica of Slippen, a Cornish pilot gig built in 1830. Gigs were used in the Cornish harbours to row a pilot out to the incoming ships. The pilots knew the local waters and could navigate the ships…

On Friday 14th July 2017, 110 young people taking part in a week-long National Citizens Service residential with Young People Cornwall came to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth, as part of their Bronze Arts Award activities.  For Bronze Arts Award, young people take part in arts activities, respond to the arts as audiences…

The first of our Awesome Adventurers have returned from their trip with the crew of HMS Adventure! Watch their report to see how they fared…

Cruel tyrant? Or maritime hero? Twelve young people from St Ives Secondary School have researched and produced this documentary film that challenges the popular perception of Captain William Bligh as one of history’s great villains – the cruel tyrant responsible for the infamous ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’. About the project The Captain Bligh Film Project…