Museums in Cornwall

A FIRST FOR ST. AUSTELL – A TOWN MUSEUM

St. Austell Old Cornwall Society opened its new museum to the public on 16^th June, 2011 in part of the town’s historic Market House.  Situated in an ideal position between the main entrance to the Market House and the Hop & Vine public house opposite the Parish Church, the museum occupies the two original police lock-up cells and part of the stairwell to the first floor of the building.

  One of the cells has been maintained as a jail, complete with replicas of a prisoner and a police constable in period costume, whilst the other has been adapted to represent a kitchen of an earlier era.  A collection of old advertising posters adorning the walls on the ground floor of the museum and the walls of display cabinets on the first floor of the Market House form a considerable part of the items on show and these give a valuable insight into the social activities of St. Austell and district.  Numerous articles and photographs have been generously donated or loaned to the Society and put on show on the ground floor which has easy access at street level.

 The museum is open until the end of October from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Monday to Friday and from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. on Saturday.  Entry is free.

• Bodmin Town Museum

• Callington Heritage Centre

KEY 1. Radio controlled boats 2. RNLI Lifeboat - Amelia 3. Diving equipment 4 Viewing gallery 5 Charlestown Road 6 Charlestown dock 7 RNLI Rescue display 8 Diving display area 9 Weighbridge & mining 10 World war losses 11 Ocean liners & Titanic 12 West Country wrecks 13 Nelson & HMS Men o' war 14 East Indiamen wrecks 15 Historic shipwrecks 16 Souvenir shop

• Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre

• Constantine Heritage Collection

• Davidstow Airfield Cornwall at War Museum

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• Elliotts Grocery Store

• Falmouth Art Gallery

• Fowey Museum

• Geevor Tin Mine

• Gerrans Heritage Centre

• Grampound with Creed Heritage Centre

• Helston Folk Museum

• King Edward Mine

Isles of Scilly Museum

• Lawrence House Museum

• Looe Museum (East Looe Town Trust)

• Lostwithiel Museum

• Marazion Museum

• Mary Newman's Cottage

• Mevagissey Museum

• Mount Edgcumbe House

• National Maritime Museum Cornwall

• Newquay Old Cornwall Society

• Padstow Museum

• Penlee House Gallery and Museum

• Penryn Museum

• Perranzabuloe Folk Museum

• Polperro Museum of Smuggling & Fishing

• Porthcurno Telegraph Museum

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Site of Redruth Museum

• Redruth Old Cornwall Society Museum

• Royal Cornwall Museum

• Saltash Heritage

• St Agnes Museum

• St Ives Archives

• St Ives Museum

• The Castle Heritage Centre and Gallery, Bude

• Torpoint Archives

• Wayside Museum, Zennor

Wesley Cottage Trewint

• Wheal Martyn China Clay Country Park

• Witchcraft Museum, Boscastle