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Museum Research

Two Chinese Silk Jackets

  • 24th July 202521st August 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

Conservation Skills – Developing our Knowledge

  • 4th July 202521st August 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

Museum News

Shop spotlight: New Cornish design from ocean plastics

  • 26th June 202526th June 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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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Speak Cornish Week 2025

  • 19th June 202519th June 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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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Join our team as a Customer Service Apprentice

  • 3rd June 202524th July 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

Sepia photograph of a crowd of people dancing Museum News

Never a dull day! Volunteering at the museum

  • 2nd June 202522nd May 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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 (2-8 June)

  • 1st June 202530th May 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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)

granite sloping floor and a white paited wooden roof with exposed rafters, arched windows along one said, a market hall scene now with museum displays Museum Research

The blind egg merchant of Leedstown

  • 9th May 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

iron man trap against a bright sky lit window Museum Research

Violence in the system: Man traps, landowners, commoners, food…

  • 9th May 202530th May 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

Museum Research

Remembering William Gilbert, miner and inventor who died on…

  • 4th April 20254th April 2025
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

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

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