Brixham Heritage Museum

30/05/2026

Don’t forget our Volunteers Open Hour this Tuesday between 6 and 7pm in Brixham Museum- meet current volunteers and trustees, find out about volunteering opportunities, and have some drinks and nibbles. No need to book, just pop in.

27/05/2026

It’s nice and cool in the maritime gallery and Duncan from The Cove - Discovery Project is all set up with his microscope and fresh seawater samples taken from the bay this morning. Using the microscope you will see if you can identify microplastics and plankton in the water samples. Come and enjoy this FREE activity at Brixham Museum until 12.30 today.

This event is part of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Festival, celebrating this extraordinary place we live in.

Brixham Town CouncilTorbay Community Builders

26/05/2026

Tomorrow (Wednesday 27th May 2026) The Cove - Discovery Project will be joining us at Brixham Museum to run their popular BEACH LAB as part of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Festival!

A FREE, hands‑on microscope experience allowing visitors to discover tiny life forms living in Torbay’s waters, including plankton and microorganisms.
Location: Brixham Museum
Date & Time: Wednesday 27 May 2026, 10:30am–12:30pm
Who it’s for: All ages – children must be accompanied
Geopark Connection: Explores the marine environment of the Geopark and the hidden life within its coastal waters.

No need to book, just drop by and see what you can discover in the water samples.

Helen Ambler, Community Builder for Brixham Brixham Town Council Torbay Community Builders Torbay Council

25/05/2026

Next Week is National Volunteers Week. Pop in to see us at Brixham Heritage Museum on Tuesday 2nd June between 6 and 7pm to find out about our great volunteering opportunities. Grab a cheeky sausage roll when you’re there - no booking required, just pop in!

It’s Volunteers’ Week between 1st and 7th June, an opportunity to celebrate and thank all the wonderful people who make a difference in our communities. Brixham is especially blessed with many kind people, lots of whom volunteer for multiple organisations, clubs and groups in our town. If YOU are looking for an opportunity to make a difference, why not volunteer for Brixham Museum? Whether you can only volunteer for occasional events, or can commit to weekly activities, you’d be most welcome. Come along to our Volunteers Open Evening on Tuesday 2nd June, between 6 and 7pm

12/05/2026

It’s Volunteers’ Week between 1st and 7th June, an opportunity to celebrate and thank all the wonderful people who make a difference in our communities. Brixham is especially blessed with many kind people, lots of whom volunteer for multiple organisations, clubs and groups in our town. If YOU are looking for an opportunity to make a difference, why not volunteer for Brixham Museum? Whether you can only volunteer for occasional events, or can commit to weekly activities, you’d be most welcome. Come along to our Volunteers Open Evening on Tuesday 2nd June, between 6 and 7pm

07/05/2026

Houston, we have a problem!

The museums computer systems are awfully outdated. All but one of our machines is running windows 10, support for which ended in the autumn…. The laptop that isn’t running windows 10…? It’s on XP!!! Support for that ended in 2014!

A couple of weeks ago my laptop gave up the ghost. Although a few months ago we registered with a charity that links charities who need equipment with businesses who are upgrading and giving away their old pcs, we are concerned that the urgency of replacing equipment used by staff and volunteers, not to mention the server that powers our cataloguing system, means that we need the machines quicker than any grant or charitable organisation will get them to us.

Imagine our joy when we received a donation from a Brixham resident of £1000 towards our equipment! The donor wishes to remain anonymous but we want to say a massive thank you!

We are now looking for further donations to support our IT needs. Every £5, £10, £50 or £1000 (😂) donation that you make will support the infrastructure of the museum and support us in protecting the history and heritage of Brixham for future generations. We are looking to raise around £2000 more for IT equipment.

Donate here and if you want to ring-fence your donation for IT there is a box where you can put a reference or message https://www.brixhammuseum.uk/donation-here/

Thanks to all our supporters! Whether you visit us, volunteer with us, put £5 in the donation box, tell all your friends how great the museum is, leave a trip advisor review or make a massive donation of £1000, we appreciate you all.

05/05/2026

We are so looking forward to a talk by Jon Rosebank, the author of A Spring Marrying on Friday!

Set in Brixham (with a whole chapter set in one of the museums cells!) A Spring Marrying is a tale of romance, crime and fishing!

We loved - the detailed description of life on a fishing smack
- the meticulously researched details of village life in Edwardian Britain
- the poetic tone
- the weight of the build up to the First World War in a rapidly changing world
- The well-researched use of Devon dialect

The book and tickets are available from the website museum shop or website.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-spring-marrying-talk-by-author-and-historian-jon-rosebank-tickets-1986905510869?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=5e33a94624b600bb06658d6fb32712e332c2876606dd43118fa23699c006f1707c143e04a417cfe942c7a650e28891b40d8d085622b01e36828a136d971d3a5acea7a64def4d538f820dafed1c



Brixham Town Council Torbay Community Builders English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark

Join author and historian Jon Rosebank for a talk on his novel A Spring Marrying, set in Brixham’s fishing fleet on the cusp of WW1

30/04/2026

Don’t forget about what promises to be a fascinating talk by author and documentary filmmaker Jon Rosebank on the history of Brixham’s fishing fleet just before the First World War, and how it informed his Brixham novel A Spring Marrying. Friday 8th May, 12.30. Tickets from the museum or online at www.brixhammuseum.uk. Refreshments included

Join author and historian Jon Rosebank for a talk on his novel A Spring Marrying, set in Brixham’s fishing fleet on the cusp of WW1

24/04/2026

https://www.brixhamtowncouncil.gov.uk/council_events/celebration-of-brixham-2/

We’re delighted to be part of the Brixham Town Council Meeting of the Parish and Celebration of Brixham. This is an annual showcase of all the many community organisations, groups and charities in the town, which help make Brixham such a special place to live. Pop in to see us, and all the other stalls, tomorrow, Saturday 25th April, between 10.30 am and 2pm

At 10am we will be holding the Annual Meeting of the Parish where all members of the public are welcome to attend. This is followed at 10.30am with a Celebration of Brixham.

21/04/2026

We have had a lovely donation including a copy of the Brixham Echo. We don’t have a collection of this publication in our archive and the national newspaper archive doesn’t have it either.

Do you remember this publication? How long did it run for?

Do you have any copies in the attic? Please let us know if you have any to donate! I’ll share some articles from it soon!