Hidden Treasures

Curators will offer a talk and guided tour of the ‘Stories from the Stores’ exhibition, part of a much bigger project to review and improve our collections. Almost all of the Museum’s social history collections – more than 5000 objects – are displayed in the gallery, which replicates a museum store. See objects that have never been displayed before and offer your opinions on what we should keep, collect or dispose of. Share your knowledge and memories about the objects on display – from 1930s gas cookers to a 1980s disco sign. Try your hand at cleaning, photographing or packing museum objects.

Visit www.plymouth.gov.uk/museumspecialevents for further information

Date: August 22nd, 11 – 11.45am / 3 – 3.45pm

Booking details: email museum@plymouth.gov.uk / telephone 01752 304774

Special conditions / access information:

Meeting point is the Museum foyer

Access to our ground floor is available for wheelchair users from the rear of our main building on Tavistock Place. If you think you will need to access the Museum from this entrance it would be helpful if you could telephone us in advance on 01752 304774 to let us know. If this isn’t possible, please ring the bell next to the door and a member of our front of house team will come to assist you.

A lift providing access to our upper floor galleries is available on request. If you think you will need to access the lift during your visit to the Museum it would be helpful if you could telephone us in advance on 01752 304774 to let us know. If this isn’t possible, please let a member of our front of house team know upon your arrival.

A wheelchair is available on request. If possible, please telephone us in advance of your visit on 01752 304774 to let us know.

Assistance is available in our main building at all times if you require it. We would be grateful if you could telephone us in advance on 01752 304774 to let us know.

Short-term street parking is available behind our main building on Tavistock Place. For a longer stay, there is a car park close to our main building, on Regent Street as well as the car park in the new Drake Circus shopping centre. Other public car parks at the top of North Hill and in the city centre, on Mayflower Street, are just a short walk away.