NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL
- DISCOVERY QUAY
TR11 3QY FALMOUTH, CORNWALL
Phone: 01326313388
Fax: 01326 317878
E-mail: Send messagewww.nmmc.co.uk
Short profile:
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is an independent company limited by guarantee No. 3446298.
The company is managed by independent Trustees supported by a small executive team and a large number of volunteers who give freely of their time.
We want to share with you the story of the people who use small boats and to explore the lives of one community for whom the sea has been an essential lifeline and source of food: the people of Cornwall.
We also aim to contribute to the future of the Carrick Roads and Falmouth as a world maritime centre and successful tourist destination.
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is a fully independent museum, a development of the original FIMI (Falmouth International Maritime Initiative) partnership created in 1992 and the result of collaboration between the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the former Cornwall Maritime Museum in Falmouth.
Detailed description:
It is also a charitable trust No. 1067884. It receives no regular funding from any other organisation and relies entirely on donations, the money raised from visitors to the Museum and the activities of its two trading subsidiaries: Discovery Quay Enterprises Ltd and Discovery Quay Enterprises (Trading) Ltd.
Hence our mission: To promote an understanding of boats and their place in people's lives, and of the maritime heritage of Cornwall.
Like other Museums, we are committed to a special mix of conservation, research, education and entertainment. But we are more than just a museum. We aspire to be a standard bearer for the emergent Cornwall; innovative, confident, and stamped with a quality brand. Proud of its past and present, yet designed for the future.
The National Maritime Museum Greenwich had an impressive collection of small boats - some 120 craft of historical significance from Britain and overseas. For many years the Trustees of the Museum had been seeking a suitable waterfront location in which to create an imaginative and dynamic showcase for the boats, many of which can still be sailed. Falmouth, offering a waterside location, its own nautical heritage and one of the world's finest harbours represented an ideal site.
The Cornwall Maritime Museum evolved from a collection reflecting Cornwall's rich maritime history gathered over 150 years by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. In 1981 this collection was brought together as the Falmouth Maritime Museum, later changing to the Cornwall Maritime Museum. Since then the collection has grown and prospered.
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