Museum Research
Sophie Postans, BA Art History and Visual Culture with Modern Languages (Chinese) student at the University of Exeter, took a … Continue reading Two Chinese Silk Jackets
Museum Research
Collections Curator Issy Bloomfield shares news of the Museum’s work to improve our team’s conservation knowledge so we can all … Continue reading Conservation Skills – Developing our Knowledge
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In the Museum of Cornish Life Shop we stock a range of cards, books, unusual toys, rocks and crystals which … Continue reading Shop spotlight: New Cornish design from ocean plastics
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We have a special trail for Speak Cornish Week (23-29 June) . Can you find these items in out museum: … Continue reading Speak Cornish Week 2025
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Working with a small staff team (Director, Community Engagement Curator and Collections Curator) and a large team of over sixty … Continue reading Join our team as a Customer Service Apprentice
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To celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2025 we are sharing Sue’s story of volunteering at the museum since it was taken over … Continue reading Never a dull day! Volunteering at the museum
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Volunteers’ Week is back Mon 2 June – Sun 8 June. It’s time to celebrate all thingsvolunteering! Our seventy volunteers … Continue reading Volunteers’ Week (2-8 June)
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Before the museum opened here in 1949, the original part of this building held the district’s ancient weekly Butter and … Continue reading The blind egg merchant of Leedstown
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Billy Warren, Research Volunteer at the Museum, delves into the history of man traps and their use by Cornish farmers … Continue reading Violence in the system: Man traps, landowners, commoners, food and farming
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Research volunteer, Frank Johnson, has been investigating the story behind the Titanic Memorial window from our collection. Read on to … Continue reading Remembering William Gilbert, miner and inventor who died on the Titanic