Latest news from The National Maritime Museum Cornwall

A new installation of contemporary tattoo art created by 14 Black and POC tattoo artists all working in the UK today.

This post contains sculptural representations of male and female nudity, including body parts.

National Maritime Museum Cornwall has been awarded £237,000 by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Wolfson Foundation to revitalise our Main Hall.

Join in with the eerie shadow pirate puppet stories and songs in the Main Hall, create your own shadow puppets in Make & Take and join the Museum trail and find all the hidden pirate ghosts.

On 23 September 1961 the BP Tanker British Aviator was in a collision in the English Channel with Crystal Jewel a British Bulker owned by the Athel Line. Both ships were badly damaged in what was the first, and is now said to be a classic example of a ‘radar assisted’ collision at sea.

The countdown to Christmas has begun and our Gift Shop is packed with lovely presents for everyone. Pay us a visit and have Christmas wrapped-up in no time.

Across this Autumn we’re welcoming three new speakers to our Lectures Series for 2022, covering subjects as diverse as Cornish maps, D-Day and deep-sea discoveries.

Hear the name Donald Healey and you may think of rally racing and motor cars. But did you know that speed enthusiast Donald Healey also launched a new range of sports boat?

In Cornwall, a county with close maritime connections, there had always been an interest in aspects of weather, the collection of weather information and the subsequent burgeoning of meteorological science. Here we take a look at how Falmouth was at the forefront of developments, building two observatories during the nineteenth century and doing much to encourage the science and services of meteorology.

The Barlett Maritime Research Centre & Library is home to over 20,000 volumes – a unique resource accessible by our volunteers, staff and members of the public. As the collection grew so did the need to make it accessible and in the latest Bartlett Blog we look at how this was achieved.