Museums

The Museum Service looks after five historic buildings:

• Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
• Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
• Smeaton's Tower - open all year (except Christmas and Easter)
• Elizabethan House - opening especially for Thanksgiving on Thursday 27 November!
• Merchants House (currently closed for the winter)

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.

Temporary exhibitions, lectures and 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 more, the Museum is busy refurbishing most of its ground floor to create four new spaces highlighting different aspects of its collections. Visit the Ground floor redevelopment page for more details!

What's on the website.....

• Talks - a series of free talks inspired by exhibitions and projects 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.
• 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.

Documents

To view these documents you might need to download some software. Visit our downloads page for more information.

Historic Sites leaflet - information for visitors about our historic sites, and events we are holding at them this year. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 532KB