The Arts - Museums in Tintagel and Bodmin Moor

Bodmin Town Museum is situated on Mount Folly, approximately 100 yards from the main car park. It tells the history of the town from its earliest times until the end of the Second World War.

Through objects, photographs, text panels and a room setting, the story unfolds. The visitor steps back in time when viewing the Cornish kitchen, with its scrubbed top pine table, cooking utensils and black leaded kitchen range.

The story of Bodmin during the Second World War is depicted through photographs, objects, text panels, uniforms and posters. Other interesting exhibits include the local stocks and an 18th century fire engine.

Opening hours, from Easter until the end of September are 10.30am to 4.30pm, Monday-Friday.

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One of Cornwall’s most unusual attractions, the witchcraft museum was opened in Boscastle in 1961 by Cecil Williamson, of Paignton, Devon, who had originally established the Museum of Witchcraft in Castletown in the Isle of Man. He sold the museum in 1996 and died the same year, aged 90.

The museum, which attracts about 50,000 visitors a year, contains many of the Williamson's magical tools and equipment, along with his private collection of magical artefacts.

It was one of the many properties in Boscastle badly affected by devastating floods in 2004.

Admission is £1.50 for adults and 75 for elders and children.

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The British Cycling Museum, based at The Old Station, Camelford, is run by John and Sue Middleton and has more than 400 examples of cycles, an old cycle repair workshop, more than 1,000 cycling medals, fobs and badges from 1881 and an extensive library of cycling-related books.

The museum also contains the first cycle oil lamp and has window displays of gas, candle, battery and oil lighting, as well as a gallery of framed cycling pictures.

The museum, situated one mile north of Camelford on the Boscastle road, is open all year, Sundays to Thursdays, from 10am to 5pm.

Admission: Adults £2.50, children £1.50 (private parties by appointment).

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This military museum was started in the Depot in 1925. Since then it has expanded considerably and now occupies the old Quartermaster's Stores on the first floor of the Keep. It is divided into two parts, the Main Historical Gallery and the Armoury.

The Main Historical Gallery traces the history of the DCLI regiment from its formation in 1702 to its amalgamation with the Somerset Light Infantry in 1950. The many wars and campaigns are put into the perspective of the history of the United Kingdom by means of explanations, maps, pictures and artefacts.

The Armoury contains one of the finest private collections of small arms and machine guns. Also shown are many of the colourful uniforms worn by the regiment before 1914, together with a remarkable display of decorations and medals.

The colours of the regiment from 1816 hang in St Petroc's, Bodmin’s parish church. These include those of the 46th Foot carried in action in the Crimea and those of the 32nd Foot carried in action at the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny.

The museum is open Monday to Friday.

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Opened in 1974, this privately-owned museum is set in a building that was originally used for making coaches and wagons. The museum covers many aspects of life in North Cornwall from 50 to 100 years ago. These include farming, the dairy, cider-making and wagons. A special feature is the reconstruction of a moorland cottage at the turn of the century.

There are sections on the tools of the carpenter, cooper, blacksmith, saddler, cobbler, tailor, printer, doctor, granite and slate quarryman. On the domestic side there is a wide range of exhibits from lace bonnets to early vacuum cleaners and a collection of Cornish and Devonshire pottery.

The gallery has changing exhibitions throughout the season of crafts and paintings.

Open
April-September
Mon-Sat 1000-1700

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