NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL WITNESSES INVASION OF VISITORS

National Maritime Museum Cornwall has seen one of its strongest performing years yet with over 100,000 visitors invading the Museum and its Viking Voyagers exhibition in its first six months, a 34% increase on last year.

Richard Doughty, Director of the Museum says: “These early results indicate that our recent partnership with national and international museums, bringing iconic artefacts from world renowned collections to Cornwall, has helped us raise our game as a must see cultural destination.”

The Viking Voyagers exhibition which runs until 2 January 2017 was funded by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and a number of generous trusts and foundations. This recent investment, alongside the museum’s Major Partner Museum status and associated funding from Arts Council England (ACE), is seeing a shift in visitor numbers and profile.

Doughty concludes: “We are really proud of our Major Partner Museum status and to be working collaboratively with the Cornwall Museum Partnership to raise standards in the sector. Working locally and nationally is a formula which we hope will continue to help the Museum thrive and offer more to our visitors, to Falmouth and Cornwall.”