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Adults £18.00
Children (Under 18s) £9.00
Children (Under 5s) Free
Open Daily 10am - 5pm
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
Tel: +44(0)1326 313388
Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
National Maritime Museum Cornwall (NMMC) acknowledges its duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults at risk (vulnerable adults) and is committed to ensuring its safeguarding practices reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and best practice. NMMC’s Safeguarding Policy recognises the welfare and interests of children, young people and adults at…
Interactive curriculum workshops delivered live to your classroom Led by the Maritime Museum’s Learning Team, our online schools programme delivers interactive and engaging curriculum workshops covering a range of topics. Each workshop features a combination of storytelling, object investigation, interactive challenges and an opportunity for pupils to ask Museum staff their questions. ‘Thank you so…
This is an account of a town, a street, a person, two ships and a house. But it starts with a mail bag. In the National Maritime Museum Cornwall there is a packet mail bag, found in a Falmouth attic, inscribed ‘H.M.S. Crane Letters for England’. The final voyage of the Crane from Falmouth was…
In October 1767, William Pearse, a man of over 80 was hanged outside Launceston, the first victim of the newly-strengthened 1753 Wreck Act. Whether he was guilty of a crime greater than others had committed or whether he was simply being used as an example is unclear. Perhaps his age prevented him running away as…
“Sometime in December 1847 a simple one-masted sloop, the Heart of Oak, registered in Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales, made her way up the coast to the buoy situated a short distance off the entrance of the channel leading to Pentewan dock. She was an elderly vessel, her lines not as sleek as younger ships. Her…
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