Find out how to load a cannon and different types of shot. Learn to find your way around a ship and handle some pirate treasure! Find out about ships articles (and the punishments if you break the rules) learn to sing a shanty to work to, what weapons you might fight with and why, and what terrible wounds you might get and how they might be treated! Hear the amazing tales of the pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and learn of the daring and wicked exploits of other infamous pirates such as Blackbeard, Black Bart and Sam Bellamy.

So swagger up for Pirate school for a broadside of pirate entertainment and learning! Haaar!

Treasure Map trail
Find 5 pieces of treasure around the museum using our treasure map

Make your own – Pirate Cutlass, Parrot, Pirate Hand and Treasure Chest
Daily, at the Make and Takes table.

Treasure Island Play Zone
Interactive learning and fun.

Plus all the family favourites...
15 galleries over four floors, jump aboard the boats, climb the 100 foot Look Out Tower, watch shipwrights at work in the boat building workshop, go under water in the Tidal Zone, hear ocean adventures + survival stories, learn to sail miniature boats on our waterfront boat pool.

Plan your trip to The National Maritime Museum Cornwall...