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WW1 Centennial Bell Tollings

  • 2nd September 20202nd September 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

Helston WW1 Heritage Project is drawing to a close with a series of centennial bell tollings commemorating those who lost their lives in the First World War. Following delays due to Covid-19, commemorations for the remaining five of Helston’s WW1 fallen are taking place between August 28th and September 5th. Each man will be commemorated

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Travelers’ Choice Award

  • 26th August 202026th August 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

The Museum of Cornish Life is thrilled to have been awarded a Travelers’ Choice Award for ratings and reviews on TripAdvisor. This award means that we are in the top 10% of attractions worldwide and that over the last year we have earned consistently great reviews from our visitors; so thank you to all of

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Bygone Days: Midsummer Eve celebrations

  • 11th August 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

I have been looking at the weekly news articles that were published by former Museum Curator, Martin Matthews. The article was called ‘Bygone Days’ and could be found in the West Briton newspaper for several years starting from 2003. He wrote a total of 105 articles, all about different local topics. Today, I am writing

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Through a lockdown lens: volunteers

  • 31st July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

The museum simply could not function without its volunteers. There are eighty of us, a platoon who work behind the scenes as well as ‘front of house’. Our duties range from greeting visitors, running the shop, supporting staff on exhibitions, collections management, digitisation of objects, running workshops, cleaning, costume management… and fixing things. For this

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Through a lockdown lens: fashion

  • 24th July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

The museum boasts one of the best costume collections in the south-west, so it seems a natural place to pause and reflect with a lockdown lens. Most of the time we have costumes on display, so it was particularly strange to see the museum in lockdown with all of the costumes tucked away. Even the

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Bygone Days

  • 24th July 202024th July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

I have been looking at the weekly news articles that were published by former Museum Curator, Martin Matthews. The series of articles were called “Bygone Days” and could be found in the West Briton newspaper for several years starting from 2003. He has written a total of 105 articles, all about different local topics such

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Through a lockdown lens: deaths due to Covid-19

  • 17th July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

It’s impossible not to reflect on coronavirus-induced lockdown without thinking about the people who died. The museum doesn’t shy away from death and funerial objects feature in the museum’s collection. In the old Meat Market we have two parish biers, or funeral carts, as well as a display about the local undertaker. The parish bier

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Through a lockdown lens: ‘home schooling’

  • 13th July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

One of the spaces that kids love in the museum is our Victorian classroom, and the chance to dress up and play at both teachers and schoolchildren. It’s hard not to think about this in the context of the lockdown lens, after all the schools being closed was a bit of a forerunner for what

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Through a lockdown lens: ‘Daily exercise’

  • 3rd July 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

How many of us puzzled over what we could or could not do regarding our ‘daily exercise’ in those early days of lockdown? There were a couple of objects in the museum when I thought about the (very important) aspect of our restricted freedoms – the bikes in the upstairs gallery, including a very early

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Through a lockdown lens: What we did at home

  • 27th June 202027th June 2020
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

After the initial shock of lockdown had passed, there was a scramble to find ‘things to do’ at home. No one knew how long we were going to be locked down for, so it seemed a good idea to pick up with old hobbies, or try something new. There were a couple of objects from

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