This is within the grounds of the Cornish Gold Centre on the New Portreath Road - great place to…read moretake your relatives visiting Cornwall. Reasonably priced jewelry, good place to look for that extra special present and something to do on rainy Sunday afternoons.

what an experience, loads of jewllery and the chance to pick an oyster shell and find out how much…read moreyour pearl is worth. you get to keep the pearl and can have it set into earrings or necklace or just keep it, given a certificate as well. you wouldnt stay long prob an hr max but loads to do in the same complex

What a fantastic & fascinating place. My wife, 4 year old son & I visited on an overcast day and…read morereally enjoyed the outside areas. The indoor exhibits did not hold our son's attention for long enough for us to enjoy but they seemed very informative. There is a children's adventure playground complete with diggers and "assault course". We walked around the water wheels and followed the process of the mining around which our son loved. We also walked up to the pit where we saw the modern operation underway - well worth the effort. The only disappoinment was the food which was a little on the expensive side and typical of the museum quality & standard. My advice is take a pinic as there are lots of benches in the adventure playground. BTW, if you gift aid the entry you can get a pass valid for re-entry for the year.

The Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum is relatively small scale attraction which gives an insight into…read morethe life of china clay workers in Cornwall from the past. Wheal Martyn is around 10 miles from the Eden Project but much less crowded. There is a main building which shows how the China clay was extracted and the techniques used. You can even have a go at producing a clay pot on a spinning wheel! There are also several woodland walks here, including one which goes through a tunnel under a hill and comes out at the edge of a large China clay pit. The museum is quite interesting although there is not enough to stay here for the full day so I would recommend only spending an afternoon here. This isn't the most fun attraction to go to in Cornwall, but if you want to learn about the history of Cornwall I recommend this to you.

My review encompasses the museum and the restaurant. (There's a "Tate Cafe" entry here on Yelp that…read moreis old, I think that's something else.) St. Ives is super arty, and having a Tate museum in town honors that nicely. But I still get more out of just ducking into the various galleries and studios around the village than I did from my stroll through the Tate. But that's largely because of my taste and my relationship with modern art. I like when art is more playful, art that makes me feel like I'm in on the joke, as opposed to "my lazy paint-roller slappings are important, you wouldn't understand". In that way, this location is a bit less fun than the big one in London. But it's still diverting, and anyone is likely to get at least something out of it. If you have an appetite for modern art and are in St. Ives, you'd likely regret skipping the Tate. I had lunch in the restaurant, "Sea View Restaurant & Bar". It's kind of swanky, with a small menu of pretty expensive entrees including a £27 steak. I got the £24 seafood curry, Langoustine Moqueca. It was really tasty actually, with its slightly spicy curry broth and a variety of seafood chunks. There lot of cool spots to sit and enjoy views while you dine, including a patio. Upbeat staff, very attentive. But wow was that an expensive lunch.

Focusing on 20th century paintings and sculptures of British vintage, Tate St. Ives offers a nice…read moreif limited collection of mostly regional artists, which is not surprising considering that St. Ives has enjoyed the status of an "art colony" since the early years of the last century till the present day. Its most famous artist is probably Barbara Hepworth, who had a studio there (which you can also visit, and you can get a combo ticket for Tate and the Hepworth Museum and save a couple of pounds there), whose rounded wood and stone objects are immediately recognizable; most of them remind me of vaginas somehow. It is a rather smallish gallery (though a bit bigger than when I first visited 8 years ago), and the entrance fee of UKP 9.50 (only for Tate) strikes me as rather hefty considering especially that the London Tate Galleries are both huge and free of charge. The presentation of its limited collection is rather striking though, and the building itself is something to behold. Lots of information on the objects is available, and non-professional photography is allowed - or at least no one stopped me. That's not standard for modern art galleries and should be praised. You will get a very decent overview on art in St. Ives, and if you're an art lover per se it is not to be missed. The location is spectacular (just opposite of St. Ives's main sands), and you will find different kinds of cafés, pubs and restaurants close by. St. Ives is a tourist hotspot, so expect the gallery to get busy during peak hours.

Excellent venue for a day out with the kids. It provides a real insight into dairy farming and…read moregeneral countryside life and does so in a way which really engages youngsters - i.e. touch and feel areas, tractor tours, farm based playgrounds. The price is a little expensive but they do a family rate and if you're there all day you get your money's worth. Advice - take a picnic as the cafe stuff is overpriced and parents - leave some change in your pocket for the inevitable hassling you'll get as you pass the gift shop / ice cream stand / etc.

This is undoubtedly one of the best businesses in Falmouth for customer service & quality of…read moreproducts - all served with cheerfulness. Good prices & goods well laid out.

Friendly and efficient. New battery and seal for my watch done in a couple of minutes. Service with…read morea smile. Highly recommended....also lots of lovely things to browse while I waited.

Been there a few times and never excited, but this time I really regretted travelling from Newquay…read moreand wasting time! Expensive!! Strange layout and feel. General exhibition rather disjointed. History of the Pirates Exhibition: DISSAPOINTING: superficial, without much educational value. Would have been more interesting looking up the subject on Wikipedia etc. Privateers such as Walter Rayleigh, Francis Drake should have been mentioned! That is a big part of British History! Instead a big section about LGBT+ pirates ("Queer Pirates")... really? To put the icing on the cake (not literally) the the kitchen staff (rude plump older woman) in the food and drink area jumped in my face when I dared to ask a question about missing drink (politely!).

The National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth is a major attraction, but at UKP 13.50 it is…read morealso relatively expensive, maybe too expensive. Yes, the ticket allows you to re-visit the museum free of charge within the next 12 months., but how many people will actually take advantage of this? Very few, I presume. The museum itself is quite impressive, especially its spectacular, huge main hall (see photos) with a variety of boats, some of them famous, most of which are suspended from the floor. There is both printed and screen-terminal information on the history and type of the boats, so from an educational angle this is truly well done. "15 galleries" the museum promises, but try as I might my count is substantially lower. This might be because at the time of my visit, several rooms were occupied by a major temporary exhibition, "Titanic Stories". That display has attracted significant publicity - and because of its subject - will no doubt also attract a significant number of visitors. Personally, I found it rather to be a collection of book pages presented as display panels, as there is a lot more to read than to see. The only substantial object *from* the Titanic is one of its lifeboats - and it is a replica! The remaining objects are a motley assortment of minor pieces either from the Titanic or the Carpathia, but most of the exhibition is concerned with the "myth" the Titanic story created and how it found its way into books, movies and even board games. Frankly, I found the collection well presented but underwhelming. As for the rest of the galleries, there is e.g. a "Cornwall Gallery" which details the nautical history of the region, and another one specifically on Falmouth history. Illuminating, certainly, but nothing to occupy one for very long. From the top floor you have an impressive view over Falmouth harbour and parts of the town, and there's a large café for visitors which I did not visit (the area offers plenty of solid restaurants right next to the museum). The small fry get an opportunity to play with toy boats in the museum's indoor pool - another family-friendly feature. The presentation itself is certainly convincing. Content-wise, I was hoping for more.

Really cute little shop with some fabulous pottery items and other little bits and bobs unique to…read morethe area. A tad on the expensive side but ideal if you are looking for a special gift. A great place to stock up on some unusual greetings cards. The also have exhibitions upstairs featuring local artists that change on a regular basis. Great for a browse even if you don't end up parting with any cash.

We went to Poldark Mine a few years back. Most of the site is fully accessible to wheelchair users…read moreexcept of course the tour of the mine itself. However we still had a good few hours looking around the mine museum which was very informative and interesting and my kids loved that. Then my daughter had a go at 'panning for gold' which was a fun activity laid on by the mine staff. She had a lot of fun trying to find 'fools gold', and it was only cheap to let her have a go. There were plenty of things to look around at in the nice grounds and we had some lovely icecream in the pretty cafeteria. There is plenty of free parking onsite

As you would probably guess, the highlight of a visit to the site is actually getting to go down…read moreinto the mind. You are given an informative guided tour and get an idea of how bad it must have been having to go down it every day to work - GRIM! We couldn't even get into the whole mine as part of it had flooded overnight. A warning - be careful not to bang your head on the mine roof - you are given a safety helmet to wear but it still gives you a bump! There are also some amusements at the site and a couple of shops, but none of this really appealed and some of it looked a bit ropey. Apparently it gets its name from an old TV show that was partly filmed there, but I'm not old enough to remember what it is!