Boscastle Wassail

We are delighted to announce that the Boscastle Wassail will be happening outside the museum on Sunday 6th January. Come down at 7.30pm to see the Wassail Ceremony and hear …

Issue Two of the Enquiring Eye is now available!

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Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Anniversary Book

Call for contributions Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Anniversary Book In December 2004, in the wrecked building of the Museum of Witchcraft, a group of friends stood and reflected on …

Dark Gathering – Part Two

Part 2 of Cassandra’s report on this years dark Gathering can be read here – Dark Gathering 2018 – Part Two  

Dark Gathering – Part 1

We were delighted to read the first part of Cassandra’s report on this years spectacular Dark Gathering event.  Dark Gathering 2018 – Part One

peck o’ trouble by artist Suzanne O’Haire with guest speaker, Simon Costin

  As part of Suzanne’s exhibition at the Recency Townhouse in Brighton, Suzanne O’Haire will present a series of 34 domestic-scale sculptural assemblages, titled beyond belief, made predominately out of …

Winter Opening dates

The Museum is now closed but as of the last few years, we will be opening before and after Christmas from 12 noon and closing at 4pm. Here are the …

Wood blocks from 1720

New Acquisition

We have been lucky to recently acquire these two incredibly rare woodblocks, originally used to illustrate The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720. John Crabb, author of Graven Images: The …

Waking the Witch, touring exhibition

  The museum has several objects on loan to a new touring exhibition. ‘The British Isles have a particularly strong relationship to magic and the occult, with the chants of …

A Week of Halloween Curiosities, London

Simon will be promoting the museum at a talk in London on the 30th October at the Town Hall Hotel. Other speakers will be Professor Ronald Hutton — The History …

Spellbound at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

We are delighted to announce that we have several items from the museums collection in this new exhibition in Oxford at the prestigious Ashmolean Museum. ‘Explore the history of magic …

A Venture Into the Occult: My Internship With the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Hi! My name is Aleksandra and I have spent the last month working here at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. I study liberal arts with a major in history …

Newberry Library: help needed with 17th Century Magical Text

Newberry Library are asking members of the public to transcribe the manuscript, which can be read here: http://publications.newberry.org/dig/rc-transcribe/charms It is a commonplace book, compiled by Robert Ashley (1565-1641).  In addition to …

Performances at the Museum this week

On Wednesday 15th August at 7.30pm, there will be an opportunity to see WITCH, an original play written for performance at the Museum.  The first ever play to have been …

Iconic objects on show

Several months ago Simon flew to Ireland to meet with friends, Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. Janet had kindly decided that she would like to pass on two iconic items …

Sneak peek at our new door!

Here’s a link to an interview with the artist Paul Atlas Saunders.  He has been busily creating a fantastic door that will greet people as they enter the Museum, to …

Dramatic performances at the Museum coming soon!

For the past few years, we have been delighted to have dramatic performances at the Museum created and performed by our friends at Circle of Spears productions (a Devon based …

Letter from Cecil Williamson

We received a letter in the post which included a much older letter.  A visitor to the Museum had written to Cecil Williamson (Museum founder) in 1985 about labyrinths and …

Guidebook now available for our 2018 exhibition

We are pleased to say that a guidebook is now available for our 2018 exhibition “Dew of Heaven: Objects of Ritual Magic.”  The guidebook is available for just £3 and …

“Beware of Bats” by Enora Boivin

Above, a painting by David Teniers the younger of a witch and a bat-headed demon. Pursuing my quest of archiving documents written by Cecil Williamson, I came across few documents related …

New novel about the influence of Crowley in Cornwall

Our thanks to Andy Bailey for generously donating several copies of the new book “Martin Dayton” to the Museum.  With his permission, we plan to keep one in the library …

New additions to the Museum library

The Museum library has over 8000 titles in it.  This includes DVDs, VHS, audio, magazines, journals and books, books, books!  You are very welcome to book some time in the …

Museum objects in York exhibition

If you aren’t able to visit the Museum in Cornwall, a selection of our objects will be on display in York’s Barley Hall run by the York Archaeological Trust.  Their …

Midsummer event appears in local papers

Our Midsummer event on June 23rd has received a lot of attention online and is now also in a couple of our local papers. This is from this week’s Cornish …