Museums

The Museum Service looks after five historic buildings:

• Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery - new galleries now open!
• Plymouth and West Devon Record Office - click here for details of our upcoming Archive Awareness Day
• Smeaton's Tower - open all year (except Christmas and Easter)
• Elizabethan House - now open - until 3 October 2009
• Merchants House - now open - until 3 October 2009

Over 300,000 artefacts, 80,000 photographs and a number of historic collections are cared for and conserved at the above locations. Thousands of historic documents are also housed at a variety of other locations including Mount Edgcumbe House and Buckland Abbey.

Changing exhibitions, lunchtime talks and holiday workshops are held at the City Museum and Art Gallery throughout the year. The Museum also provides an Education Service for schools and proactive outreach and access services for community groups and adults. A youth forum called The Core also exists specifically for young people aged 13 to 18 years of age.

What's on the website.....

• Talks - a series of free talks offering an insight into galleries, collections, exhibitions and events of local interest at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
• Concerts - the Museum is one of only a handful of museums in the country to offer a classical music series.
• Museum events - information about the Museum's varied events programme.
• Exhibitions - view details of current and future exhibitions at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
• Merchant's House events - special events with a focus on the Blitz and Victorians.
• Elizabethan House events - special events with a Tudor or Shakespeare theme.
• Smeaton's Tower events - information about International Lighthouse Day.

Documents

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	Historic sites leaflet - information for visitors about our historic sites. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 428KB
	Historic sites large print leaflet - information for visits to our historic sites, in a large print format. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 234.8KB
	Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery leaflet - for an overview of what we offer, including exhibitions up until February 2010 File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 413KB