•Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
Founded in 1818 by the Royal Institution of Cornwall, the Royal Cornwall Museum is the largest and most comprehensive museum in Cornwall. It occupies a complex of superb granite buildings in the centre of Truro and houses excellent collections of fine and decorative art, archaeology, local history, costume, natural history and an internationally important collection of Cornish minerals. The museum also houses a private reference library, open to the public, with a very significant archive.
The museum is an independent charity, partly funded by Cornwall County Council on the basis that it acts as the County Museum for Cornwall. The museum has an absolute imperative to operate as economically and efficiently as possible and to maximise its earned income. To this end a trading company was formed by the museum in 1990 to run a shop and café, and all proceeds are used to fund museum activities.
In addition to its curatorial functions, the museum runs a programme of temporary exhibitions based on its own collections and also hosts loan exhibitions and touring exhibitions. It receives regular requests to co-operate with other museums in devising and circulation exhibitions and loans material from its collections both nationally and internationally, as well as images of its collections for publications. The institution is also a publisher in its own right.
The museum has a very active education service which is used by over 90% of the 247 primary schools in Cornwall and it also organises workshops and special events for secondary schools, colleges, adults and families.
The collections held by the Royal Cornwall Museum include, most importantly, collections of Old Master Drawings, British art, British and world ceramics, Japanese decorative art, pewter, Cornish minerals, Cornish archaeology, social history, Cornish natural history, Egyptology, numismatics and has a collection of over 40,000 photographs.
The museum attracts in the region of 60,000 visitors per year.
Lead organiser
Miss Tamsin Daniel, Curator of Art & Exhibitions
Royal Cornwall Museum, River Street, Truro, Cornwall, England, TR1 2SJ
Phone:01872 272205
Fax:01872 272205
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Curriculum Vitae:
Date of Birth30 August 1969
Place of BirthPenzance, Cornwall
NationalityBritish
Education
1989-1992Warwick UniversityBA (Hons) History of Art
(Upper Second Class)
1992-1993Leicester UniversityMA (Museum Studies)
Work experience
1993-1996Victoria & Albert MuseumCurator
1996 to present dayRoyal Cornwall MuseumCurator
Awards
January 2000 awarded AMA by the Museums Association
Positions held
July 1998 to present dayLead Organiser for Cornwall Curators’ Network
July 1999 to present dayLead Organiser for CHAIN project
January 2000 to present dayCornwall County Representative for the South Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries