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After three years of meticulous and extensive restoration Sea Queen, a Mevagissey working boat owned by National Maritime Museum Cornwall, is back in the water. In 2004 National Maritime Museum Cornwall acquired Sea Queen, a Mevagissey Tosher built in 1924 by famous Cornish boat builder Percy Mitchell. When Percy built Sea Queen he was just…

All boats are designed and made with a specific purpose in mind, whether it is for leisurely trips along the river or for speed and agility to win races. Father’s Day, the boxy bright red boat in our Main Hall, is no exception. She was designed to be small – as small as possible. Her…

A special thank you! It was celebration time at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth recently when a number of volunteers marked over five, ten or fifteen years of voluntary service. At a special lunch to mark the occasion, volunteers were awarded certificates and commemorative pins by the museum director Richard Doughty. The volunteers…

A historical ‘Bligh Boat Race’ took place during the Tilley Endurables Falmouth Classics this June… This June 2018 the 31st Tilley Endurables Falmouth Classics event, held an utterly unique ‘Bligh Boat Race’ between two Bounty Launch replicas. Conrad Humphreys raced his replica ‘Bounty’s End’, against The National Maritime Museum Cornwall’s (NMMC) ‘Bounty Launch Replica’. In…

Meet the creator of this stunning installation Falmouth based artist Dan Arnold @thiscountryside is the creator of Heaving Lines, a stunning, sensitive and inspiring representation of the iceberg suspended over the lifeboat in our exhibition Titanic Stories. Heaving lines, with monkey fist knots tied as weights at the end, were often used to connect one boat with…

Hear insights into the exhibition Guest curator Dr Eric Kentley on our major exhibition Titanic Stories which examines the stories of the Titanic’s momentous sinking on 15 April 1912, re-appraising many of the myths, controversies and assumptions that still linger around one of the most well-known historic events of the 20th century.  

Seth Hall introduces Titanic Stories: Contemporary Voices As part of its Titanic Stories exhibition, The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has launched a concurrent exhibition exploring the subject of migration past and present. Titanic Stories: Contemporary Voices shows how the Titanic carried the hopes and dreams of hundreds of migrants seeking a better life and linking…

Watch Dan introduce his installation In addition to the many historic objects in the major exhibition Titanic Stories, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall commissioned a visually-stunning representation of the iceberg suspended over the lifeboat by Cornwall based Dan Arnold. The sculpture is formed from 2208 monkey’s fist knots, each hand made by members of the…

As part of the Titanic Stories exhibition, we’ve launched a concurrent exhibition exploring the subject of migration past and present.