NMMC on tour ...

Pupils from Bude Junior School, Polperro Community Primary School and adults from 'Pathfields', a Cornwall Council adult support and care centre benefit from a new partnership with three smaller, volunteer-run museums: Bude Castle Heritage Centre, Polperro Museum and Mevagissey Museum.

As part of the visit to their local Museums, the groups have enjoyed our living history performance Hevva! Hevva! They met Lizbeth and Samuel, two characters from the heyday of Cornwall’s pilchard fishing heritage. 

Through an interactive mix of music, artefacts, Cornish language, drama and rope-making, the audiences were drawn into the hardships and humour of Cornish fishermen and women in the 1870s. This new partnership has been made possible by a grant of £1470 from Cornwall Council.

We are excited to be working with these other museums, who wouldn’t normally be able to fund or sustain this type of historical interpretation or programme.  This project as an important way for us to work in partnership with smaller museums, sharing skills and resources and developing closer and mutually beneficial working relationships.

The last visit is Tuesday 17th April when Debbie and the actors will be visiting Mevagissey Museum to perform to 40 local school children, an Over 60's group and the general public.