
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
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🚢 Multi-award-winning museum
🌊 A place to enrich our understanding of the sea & Cornwall
💙 Locally loved and nationally valued
📍 Falmouth, Cornwall
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10-05-2010 12:48:58
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Cave paintings will tell you that Polynesians invented surfing over 1,000 years ago - but a new exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall explores the lore, craft, and culture that has underpinned a distinctly British surf heritage in the past century. My latest for VICE: vice.com/en/article/sur…




Join Chris Hines, Co-Founder of Surfers Against Sewage , on Thu 15 May as he explores the origins of the charity & the tools we can all use for intelligent activism🏄 Attend the Lecture In-Person or Online. 🎟️Book: nmmc.co.uk/whats-on/intel… #surf #cornwall #sustainability #falmouth #events

Our Cornwall Surf Club surfers and their families were kindly invited to visit the SURF! exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall. It was a fantastic day and a wonderful chance to see #TheWaveProject featured amongst surfing's greats! National Maritime Museum Cornwall #bluehealth #surfcommunity


Not only does the latest exhibition National Maritime Museum Cornwall, SURF!, celebrate 100 years of waveriding in Cornwall, but it does so through the display of 100 boards! With such a wide range of boards to choose from, there's no excuse not to Get on Board! Sign up now 👉 waveproject.co.uk/get-on-board/


📺Catch SURF! on your screens tonight 7.00pm BBC The One Show Celebrating a century of Waveriding in Cornwall, meeting some of our object lenders and chatting all things SURF! with guest curator Dr.Sam Bleakley nmmc.co.uk/surf/ #surf #surfcornwall #Museum #Exhibition




🦞We hosted Day 3 of the NationalLobsterHatch Releaseathon yesterday! #Lobster #LobsterRelease #Cornwall itv.com/watch/news/chi…

⛵Exciting news! We've received a 'Victory 80' award to support our WWII SOE replica boat build project. Funded by Department for Culture, Media and Sport and awarded by Museum Development South West with thanks to support from Arts Council England #Victory80 #MaritimeHistory nmmc.co.uk/2025/06/a-piec…


"Step into the main exhibition hall of National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth and you are instantly engulfed by a huge wave of nostalgia with some of the most famous craft of our time hanging like model boats from rafters for all to see." Sailing Today with Yachts & Yachting magazine sailingtoday.co.uk/news/new-exhib…

We're pleased to welcome Cornwall-based Parc Signs Ltd as our newest Corporate Member. This new partnership celebrates years of collaborative exhibition design & fabrication with Parc Signs and we're thrilled to have them on-board. #MuseumSupport 🔗parcsigns.co.uk


🌊 CAREER OPPORTUNITY 📣Family Engagement Assistant - work placement National Maritime Museum Cornwall 📅18hrs/week, Perfect for early career starters interested in museums/education! Apply by 4 July 9am #Cornwall #Jobs #CornwallJobs #MuseumJobs nmmc.co.uk/about/working-…


FANTASTIC to read this by Ruth Thurstan University of Exeter !!! Brilliant! ❤️🌊 National Maritime Museum Cornwall also gets a shout out! Uni of Exeter's ESI theconversation.com/what-a-19th-ce…