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Monday 10:30am - 4:30pm Tuesday 10:30am - 4:30pm Wednesday 10:30am - 4:30pm Thursday 10:30am - 4:30pm Friday 10:30am - 4:30pm Saturday 10:30am - 3:30pm

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A local museum celebrating the history and culture of St. Ives.

19/09/2026

St Ives Museum is delighted to present a pop up exhibition on Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd September showcasing the history of music in St Ives, curated by the wonderful Dee Brotherton from Tir ha Tavas and Bagas Porthia. The town is blessed with an impressive heritage of traditional music, distinctive local composers and performers including brass bands, choirs and solo artists. You will be able to hear a number of local St Ives 'curls' (carols) and other music from the town.

Admission is included within the standard £5 entry to the museum (under 16s FREE). The museum is open Mondays to Fridays 1030-1630 and Saturdays 1030-1530.

18/09/2026

Our first guided tour of St Ives Museum on 15th September was hugely successful - thank you to everyone who came along. Our second tour on Wednesday 23rd September has now sold out.

31/08/2026

Want to know more about St. Ives Museum and find out more about our collections? Join us on a guided tour with the Curator and Assistant Curator as they take you around the museum and explain some of the stories behind some of our exhibits. 6.30pm at the Museum on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 23rd September. Tickets limited to 25 per session available from the St. Ives Box Office at stives.ticketsolve.com

20/07/2026

Former St Ives Customs Officer and Mayor John Knill had a monument on Worvas Hill erected, intending it to be his mausoleum. He also established a Trust making provision for the conduct of a ceremony to be held in his memory in every year ending in a 1 or a 6, and the first one was held in 1801 whilst Knill was still alive.

The 46th John Knill ceremony takes place this Saturday 25th July and you can find our more about it at St. Ives Museum, where we have created a display with information about John Knill's life and the ceremony, together with photographs including the names of some of the participants going back as far as 1881. St Ives Museum holds the chest with three locks which contains the disbursements for the ceremony, including the sums set out by Knill for the particupants, white ribbons for the maidens and a vellum book for a record to be kept of the proceedings. The chest will be delivered to the Guildhall later this week.

St Ives Museum is open from 1030 - 1630 Mondays to Fridays, 1030 - 1530 on Saturdays and is closed on Sundays. Entry is £5 for adults and free for under 16s.

23/06/2026

Need a break from the beach? Come and cool off at St Ives Museum - only £5 and free for under 16s

25/05/2026

Need to cool off and take a break from the beach for a while? Come and visit St. Ives Museum where you can learn about the history, heritage and people of the town whilst enjoying the shade and fans in our lovely old building. See our latest art exhibition 'Making Waves: Representational Art in St. Ives 1930 -1960' as well as the rest of our diverse and eclectic collection.

We are open Mondays to Fridays 1030 - 1630 and Saturdays 1030 - 1530. Adults £5 Under 16s free.

12/05/2026

To accompany this year's 'Making Waves' exhibition at St. Ives Museum Cornish Art Historian David Tovey will be giving a talk at Porthmeor Studios on Friday 12th June. Scan the QR code below for tickets or contact the Cornish Riviera Box Office on 01726 63513.

The period from its foundation in 1927 to 1960 was the heyday of the St. Ives Society of Artists (STISA), with many Royal Academicians exhibiting. In order to put St. Ives Museum's 2026 exhibition 'Making Waves' into a wider context, this lecture concentrates on the St Ives resident artists who were the Committee members of STISA and organised the extraordinarily successful touring shows that visited more than twenty Provincial Public Galleries and even went out to South Africa in 1947. These artists all enjoyed very successful careers and had work bought by Public Galleries and yet in the past have been denigrated by modernist art historians as being second rate traditional artists who merely produced pot-boilers for the tourist market. This lecture aims to show how wrong that viewpoint is. Artists featured include Moffat Lindner, Borlase Smart, George Bradshaw, John Park, Arthur Hayward, Bernard Ninnes, Thomas Maidment, Shearer Armstrong, Dorothea Sharp and Marcella Smith.

23/04/2026

Another windy day. Perfect for a visit to St Ives Museum

21/04/2026

We’re thrilled to announce this year, coming to the festival for the first time, is national treasure Pam Ayres!

Pam has been performing her solo stage shows throughout the UK and overseas for over 40 years - the original Performance Poet!

There’ll also be an opportunity to buy signed copies of Pam’s book ‘Doggedly Onward - a life in poems’ on the night.

Tickets on sale NOW 👇

https://stives.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173672671

Address

Wheal Dream
Saint Ives
TR261PR

Opening Hours

Monday	10:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	10:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	10:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	10:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday	10:30am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+441736796005

Website

http://www.stivesmuseum.co.uk/

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