St Agnes Museum

A new kind of visit

St Agnes Museum — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:10 +0000

The usual school visit to our Museum involves a guided look around the collection, sometimes with a theme in mind, and a chance to do the ever-popular Cuckoo Hunt. But on Thursday 16th May St Agnes Year 2 came with … Continue reading →

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Voyage of the Mystery

St Agnes Museum — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:45:49 +0000

In February St Agnes Museum’s Education team was invited to form a partnership with the National Maritime Museum Cornwall who had obtained funding to run their ”Cornish Voices” living history programme alongside smaller (and in our case, small!) museums in Cornwall. … Continue reading →

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Royal Visit to the Museum

St Agnes Museum — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:26:40 +0000

Update: Sadly HRH The Duke of Kent was taken ill shortly before his planned visit to the Museum to meet volunteers in March, but we hope that he may be able to visit us in the future. We are very exited … Continue reading →

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Pottery Finds

St Agnes Museum — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:30:50 +0000

We have been given the generous gift of a teapot made by John Vasey of the St Agnes Pottery, found in Truro’s Oxfam shop. While we have several items of John’s work, we didn’t until now have a teapot. We … Continue reading →

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Year 4 Welcome St Agnes Museum

St Agnes Museum — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:25:50 +0000

Liz Thompson and Carol Morgan recently spent an enjoyable morning with Year 4 of St Agnes School, taking them on a virtual tour of St Agnes with the help of old postcards. The tour began at St Agnes Station and … Continue reading →

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Another Auction Success

St Agnes Museum — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:25:01 +0000

We have bought at auction a set of six Indentures on vellum from the Manor of Tywarnhayle. Dating from 1825-1875, three relate to a house known as “Tinten” at the foot of Rosemundy Hill, while the others relate to a … Continue reading →

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Winter Coffee Morning

St Agnes Museum — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:14:15 +0000

St Agnes Church Hall was a hive of activity on Saturday 3 November for St Agnes Museum’s Winter Coffee Morning. Liz Thompson, reports that the Committee was delighted with the generous support it received, with donations of tempting cakes, wonderful … Continue reading →

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St Agnes School’s Year 5 visit

St Agnes Museum — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:56:35 +0000

St Agnes Museum welcomed Year 5 from St Agnes Primary School to the Museum as part of their studies into local mining and mass migration overseas. The students were deciding whether they would have emigrated from St Agnes when the … Continue reading →

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Railway Slides

St Agnes Museum — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:52:03 +0000

The Museum has purchased five colour slides of the final days of the Newquay-Chacewater branchline taken from Presingoll Farm, next to St Agnes Station, in 1963. They include shots of the last diesel train to use the line, a “Special” … Continue reading →

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An amazing find

St Agnes Museum — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:03:10 +0000

Everyone at the Museum is celebrating the purchase at auction of an antique artist’s palette which belonged to St Agnes painter Edward Opie RA (1810-1894) and which, it seems likely, also belonged to Edward’s Great Uncle, John, “The Cornish Wonder”. … Continue reading →

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