The city’s art, natural history, human history, film, photography, and archival collections are on display in nine permanent galleries. Three big shows celebrate the Mayflower 400th anniversary and worldwide art.
The Box is where history meets art, archives meet interactivity, and the Mayflower meets a mammoth. A gallery and an archive. An Eatery. A location to call your own, and always find something new.
The Box puts six exceptional collections together in an innovative set of rooms. In the Active Archives exhibit, explore how these and other archival artefacts help illuminate Plymouth’s past.
Enrich your visual and audio-visual legacy using the Media Lab’s technology, methods and people. This interesting area brings together over 1,000 photographs and video images, 300 artefacts from their social history, archive, and moving image collections.
Many items have been brought to Plymouth for the first time in 400 years. It examines early English attempts to colonise America, conflicts with Native Americans, and the consequences of colonialism on the indigenous people.
