Collections
The museum has collections in the following areas:
- Archaeology, both Cornish and non-Cornish: these include the Arthur stone
- Art
- Applied and decorative arts
- Fine art (including Newlyn School paintings and a recent bequest of works by Bryan Pearce)
- Numismatics
- Biology
- Geology
- Mineralogy (including Philip Rashleigh's collection of Cornish minerals)
- A collection of Cornish Fossils.
- Social history
- World cultures
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