Helston Museum

Helston Museum is a museum located inside the former marketplace town of Helston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The museum is housed in Helston's former Market House and Drill Hall. The museum turned into founded in 1949, the building became at the beginning designed because the metropolis's Market House in 1837. 4th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry used it as their drill hall all through World War 1. The Museum improved into the meat marketplace within the early Nineteen Eighties and into the adjacent Drill Hall in 1999. A suspended gallery become additionally added at the moment that in flip allowed the introduction of the mezzanine art gallery.

In the front of the building is a cannon salvaged from the break of the frigate HMS Anson which foundered off Loe Bar on 29 December 1807. The Museum's collection reflects both the social and commercial history of The Lizard Peninsula, from mining, fishing and farming through to home life inside the 18th - 20th centuries. Previously run by way of Cornwall Council, control of the museum was taken over by using the South Kerrier Heritage Trust in August 2013. The Trust is a neighborhood registered charity operating with the network, and daily work on the museum is largely undertaken by volunteers.