St Agnes Museum

An award-winning volunteer-run Museum comprising information, artefacts and curios relating to the Parish of St. Agnes. 

St. Agnes is a beautiful coastal village with a rich history of tin and copper mining as well as fishing, although today its main trade is tourism. A visit to the museum will enhance your understanding of this special history and can be complemented with one of many walks taking in the historic mine engine house remains or lunch in one of the many restaurants, cafes or pubs.

St Agnes Museum is full of fascinating artefacts and information about the Parish of St Agnes on the north coast of Cornwall.

There’s lots about our rich mining and maritime history with a detailed model of the former harbour and our fabulous Lady Agnes figurehead.

Schools

For our younger visitors, aged 3-7, we have a story called Sam and the Leatherback Turtle to listen to, and an exciting Treasure Chest to explore, filled with puppets of sea creatures, jigsaws, books, and more.

We warmly welcome contact with schools and have an established WW2 Outreach Project for schools. Based on the adventures of Fred, a young evacuee billeted on a St Agnes farm, and, drawing entirely on the recollection of local people and authentic source material, including school log books, we can offer a range of activities including story telling, a handling collection, wartime songs, craftwork and mapwork.

We have also established a Mining Outreach workshop for KS2 pupils which is based on the lives of the boys and girls who worked in the mines of 19th century St. Agnes. Pupils hear the story of a Bal Maiden’s first day at work; try on replica miners’ and bal maidens’ costumes; and can handle objects from the Museum collection, including replica tools specially made for the workshop.

Each project is fully compatible with the modern Primary School curriculum. There is no charge but a donation to Museum funds would be welcomed.