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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s hard to think about lockdown without acknowledging the roller-coaster of emotions that many of us seem to have experienced. When I was browsing the collection, the closest thing that represents the metaphor is a child’s spinning top. Close, but a friend of mine gave me another word: the ‘coronacoaster’. Just perfect for my unfathomable