The Arts - Museums in Bude and North Cornwall

The museum has an extensive collection of photographs and slides, mainly connected with Bude’s maritime history, but also covering the town’s history, railway and canal. The majority of the museum’s photograph and slide collection is housed in our archive and is viewable by prior appointment.

Located at The Wharf, the museum is open from Easter to the end of October, daily from noon to 5pm.

Adults 50p, Concessions 25p, Children free if accompanied by an Adult

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The inspiration for Daphne du Maurier's novel, Jamaica Inn stands high upon Bodmin Moor, with beamed ceilings, roaring log fires and real ale.

The inn houses Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosity, a Victorian exhibit, featuring taxidermist Walter Potter, and Daphne du Maurier's Smugglers at Jamaica Inn, a presentation of the novel in tableaux and a captivating collection of smuggling artefacts.

The inn itself is open all year and the museums from mid-February until December.

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Launceston, once the ancient capital of Cornwall, has a street of very fine Georgian houses, and one of these, known as Lawrence House, is now the town museum.

The visitor can enjoy not only many rooms of interesting displays but also the lovely interior of the building. In the hallway of the house stands a Polyphon (the Victorian jukebox). There is an exhibition of the history of the town from Bronze Age times. There are displays of Feudal dues; costumes, domestic and agricultural artefacts; the Tasmania Connection and a good display of Victoriana.

Opening hours are 10.30am to 4.30pm weekdays only, from April to September, 10.30am to 1.30pm from 1st to mid October. Other times and dates by arrangement with the curator.

Free

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