Museum News
We are thrilled to announce the publication of our new book, Citizen Curators: A Guide to Museums and Collections for … Continue reading New book: Museums and collections for beginners
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
Museum Research
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
Museum Research
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
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As part of our Farmers Will Like It project to conserve and research some of our oldest collections relating to … Continue reading Making of the new wassail bowl for Cornwall
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Collections research volunteer Sue Roberts explores the prominent roles of women in Cornish farming and how they are evidenced in … Continue reading Where are the women in Cornish farming?
Museum Research
Collections research volunteer Andy Blackwell returns with new research on the history of Cornish butter making, dairy objects, butter markets, and … Continue reading Cornish butter for one and all
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BA Politics student Frederick Proctor of the University of Exeter explores the history of whimsey bottles in the museum’s collection. … Continue reading Whimsey bottles research project