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Choral concert brings A Story of Cornwall home

Choral concert brings A Story of Cornwall home

A very special performance of the prize-winning choral work ‘A Story of Cornwall’ is taking place at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro on Saturday 10 March. Composed by Cornish bard Nick Hart and commissioned by the Royal Institution of Cornwall which is celebrating...
Lecture reveals Cornwall’s scientific past

Lecture reveals Cornwall’s scientific past

More than fifty people listened to Dr Simon Naylor talking about Cornwall’s scientific past in the first of this year’s Royal Institution of Cornwall’s lecture series. Providing a history of the RIC’s establishment in 1818 and detailing its early organisational...
Unassuming schoolboy who dreamed beyond the stars

Unassuming schoolboy who dreamed beyond the stars

Feature – West Briton, January 2018 Two hundred years ago in 1818, a group of men and women gathered at the County Library in Truro to establish a society of learning and culture that still exists and thrives today. The Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC) runs...
Discover the unexpected

Discover the unexpected

Feature – Cornwall Today Step into the Royal Cornwall Museum and prepare yourself for discovery. With a brand new layout in the Main Gallery and an easy-to-follow route from pre-historic Cornish finds and stories through to the modern day, there’s never been a...