Category: Start / Museums and GalleriesMuseums and galleries in Cornwall or relating to CornwallSort links by: Title ( + | - ) Date ( + | - ) Rating ( + | - ) Popularity ( + | - ) Sites currently sorted by: Popularity (from fewest hits to most hits) Royal Cornwall MuseumCollections of Cornish history and archaeology, paintings, ceramics, silver and gold. Other exhibits include a genuine Egyptian mummy and an extensive collection of Cornish minerals.Added on: 21-Sep-2004 | hits: 261 Report broken link | Details Porthcurno Telegraph MuseumMuseum of Submarine Telegraphy set up by Cable & Wireless. Porthcurno was the home of the first international telecommunications network 'The Victorian Internet' and important cables still come ashore here. Als has collections of old photographs, maps, archives and the history of Porthcurno.Added on: 22-Sep-2004 | hits: 282 Report broken link | Details Wheal Martyn MuseumMuseum of the china clay industry. Located just outside of St Austell.Added on: 22-Sep-2004 | hits: 292 Report broken link | Details |
Cornwall News
Drivers face crossing toll rise Crews in tumble dryer fire rescue One person is rescued from a four-storey building in Cornwall after a fire broke out because of a tumble dryer. Cat survives sealed box tomb ordeal A cat is found alive despite being dumped in a plastic box sealed shut with parcel tape in Cornwall. SAS impersonator faces the boot A man who posed as an SAS war hero at parades faces being thrown out of the Royal British Legion. Marines' bodies flown back to UK The bodies of two South West-based Royal Marines killed in Afghanistan, are flown to the UK. MK CALL ON SW RDA TO SUPPORT SOUTH CROFTY PLAN Members of the Camborne and Redruth constituency party of Mebyon Kernow have called on both the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) and the Urban Regeneration Company (URC) for the area to drop any opposition to the current re-opening of South Crofty Mine. The MK members want statements issued in support of the mine. REJECTION OF PRISON TRANSFER REQUEST MEAN-SPIRITED Following a specious and mean-spirited decision an Irish prisoner in England has had his request for a transfer to a prison in Ireland been rejected once again, for the fifth time. BREIZH: LEAGUE GS MEETS UN CLIMSAT DIRECTOR The Director of the new United Nations CLIMSAT centre in Brest, Breizh (Brittany) said on the weekend that the future of the Breton environment lay in the autonomy of Brittany. |