Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery

Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery is home to more than a million objects. The collections of treasures, artefacts, art and photography that we take care of help explain Cornwall, its language, Cornish identity and life in our region. Through these objects we can look at the lives of the people of Cornwall through time, the things they have kept, collected or found.  

We can see how Cornwall’s unique geology shaped the livelihoods, culture and identity of the people living here, from the Bronze Age to the current day. We can explore Cornwall’s wildlife and the impact of human actions. 

Through the permanent collections, displayed in the Heart of Cornwall Gallery, Mineral Gallery, Nature Gallery, the Art Gallery on the upper balconies and the Ancient Civilisations Gallery, you can uncover how the Cornwall we know today came to be.