MuseumsBodmin

Welcome to Bodmin JailWe are an all weather, family attraction, that includes a licensed bar and restaurant, covered courtyard, with a Civil and Naval Prison housing a museum within its walls split over three levels. It was the last County Jail in Cornwall, eventually closing in 1927. The…
Distance: 0.4 miles away

A definitive collection and history of cycling in Britain. Over 400 examples of cycles, old cycle repair shops, over 1000 cycling medals, fobs and badges from 1881, an extensive library of books, the first cycle oil lamp, and window displays of gas, candle, battery and oil lighting.…
Distance: 11.8 miles away

Located in a historic china clay building here on the waterfront of the seaport of Charlestown, St. Austell, Cornwall. The Shipwreck and historical artefacts on display in the centre are the largest private collection of this type on public display in Europe. The many and…
Distance: 9.7 miles away

Over 200 years of Regimental history is on display at the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Museum. The former barracks now houses the regimental museum with uniforms, pictures and medals including one of the country's finest small arms collections. .…
Distance: 1 mile away

Just imagine today everything we do is fully automated. . We have machinery to undertake all our everyday tasks. Did you realise, however, that back in the 1820's when china clay was and still is a major industry in Cornwall and Devon, everything was done…
Distance: 7.7 miles away

This is a hands on countryside museum, exhibiting a wide rang of agricultural and household items of a bygone age. There are lambs rabbits and chickens to be fed, and a picnic and recreation area for children. .…
Distance: 9.7 miles away

Enjoy the peace of these magnificent gardens with their outstanding collections of magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons as well as other rare trees and shrubs. These gardens covering some thirty acres are renowned for their magnificent collection of camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias and many rare trees and shrubs which…
Distance: 15 miles away