Our Citizen Curator Tiffany Coates’ Video Inside our collections, there is a mysterious object: a digeridoo! Follow Tiffany Coates as she attempts to uncover the secret of how it came to be in Porthcurno, and what a close examination of it can reveal! Watch the video, ‘A PK Mystery: the Digeridoo’ to learn more!
Communication On the Street – New Video
Our Latest Video is About the Humble Police Box We have a new video on our YouTube channel, called ‘The Police Box – classic public communication on the street’. It is part of a short series on communication before the wide-spread use of the telephone. If you needed the police but the local station was
1870: The Year We Made Contact
In 1870, the cable to India was laid. But it wasn’t the only thing to happen that year. Our latest video explores the events of 1870, a year that brought the modern world closer.
Presentation of Exiles Golf Society Trophies
President and Captain of the Exiles Golf Society, Peter Burleigh, today presented the museum with a treasured collection of trophies spanning nearly 100 years.
Arrival of rare Photo-telegraphy Equipment
The museum received a very special set of working phot0-telegraphy equipment, dated 1946, by Gerald Parnall.
Laser Pioneer visits Porthcurno
Last week we were joined by Peter Selway, former head of the STL laser programme and former colleague of Charles Kao, inventor of the optical fibre.
How the power of innovation is shaping the networks of tomorrow
Guest blogger for Commscope Kye Prigg, head of Networks at Vodafone UK, explains how the power of innovation is shaping mobile networks now and in the future.