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Zachary Woods, currently studying an undergraduate degree in History at Exeter University, has conducted research and written an article on the posters on display in our link corridor.
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Tehmina Goskar, Research Curator, talks about the museum’s dairy-related objects as part of an ongoing major review of our farming … Continue reading Time for croust: reviewing the museum’s dairy and talking to our collections
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Andy Blackwell, collections research volunteer on the Farmers Will Like It project explores the history and folklore of the bullocks’ … Continue reading Magic of bullocks’ hairballs
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The museum , in conjunction with Trevow Helston, is undertaking a piece of research into the history of theatre in … Continue reading Exploring the History of Theatre in Helston
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As part of new research into our farming collections, Julia Webb-Harvey returns to investigate Cornish farming customs. In the museum … Continue reading Cornish customs of the corn
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Research Curator, Tehmina Goskar gives an update on our farming heritage research project. In April 2023 we began work on … Continue reading Will farmers like it? New research on agricultural heritage at the museum
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In the dead of night in August 1976, a man crept around the back of the Camborne Free Library, smashed … Continue reading The curious theft of Camborne Museum’s snuff boxes
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One of the largest collections of costume at the Museum of Cornish Life is the De Bruyne Collection. Donated to … Continue reading Second World War and Post-War Fashion in the De Bruyne Collection
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This month we are taking a closer look at our shipwreck and lifesaving objects. Perhaps the most famous of the … Continue reading What happened to the SS Ocklinge?
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Dr. Tehmina Goskar, Art Fund Headley Fellow, talks about the importance of museum catalogues plus an interview with Matt Howell, … Continue reading How the museum got its brain: 20th-century collections cataloguing and documentation