Online Booking
We will be releasing advance tickets two months at a time from the end of May.
Timetable
May – on sale now. Click here.
June – on sale May 23rd.
July and August – on sale June 21st.
September and October – on sale August 22nd.
You can look out for a new allocation of tickets in the last week of the month preceding the sale period.
About Online Booking
We are a small Museum with an international reach, lending to much larger museums as far afield as Japan, United States, Germany and Switzerland.
Bristol Museums, The Ashmoleon, The British Library, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokyo Station Museum have all recently relied on our collections and expertise to supply objects for hugely successful shows.
But for a full experience of what we have to offer a visit in person is required.
To visit us in Boscastle is to then discover that our premises are small – and our capacity is strictly limited. At busy times in season we may reach capacity quickly.
Our audience is made up diversely from craft members, students of the path, casual visitors, holiday makers, the curious -and everything in between. As a Museum we aim to remain neutral and we strive to treat everyone equally.
Online ticketing is a new feature of the Museum’s business and is in its second year.
Online ticketing makes capacity available for those able to book in advance. But it’s not the whole story. It reduces the amount of available walk-ins. Some of our core audience rely on walk-in tickets being available. In Cornwall the seasonal economy means some people get paid weekly -and for the summer only! Those people are our visitors too.
Giving fair access to ticket availability to everyone – irrespective of their purchasing power – is a key value of the Museum.
Last year we adopted a system of releasing tickets weekly in order to treat every visitor to the museum equally.
This most closely matched the experience in previous years of just ‘walking in’ and paying for entry.
This year in 2022 we are testing our system in real time to cope with seasonal demand, to get it right, reduce a potentially unworkable amount of calls and emails from members of the public, in an aim to give everyone what they want.
We have reduced the number of advance tickets to increase our capacity for walk-ins.
Daily, a slot from 12 – 2 PM is dedicated to walk-ins. This continues throughout the season. Subject to availability (booked slots) a number of walk-in tickets may be available. When we are full, we may ask visitors to wait. If you miss your slot, we will fit you in – but you will have to join the queue when there is one.
If you want to secure a slot, book a ticket. In the academic and public holidays this is particularly advisable.
We will be releasing advance tickets two months at a time from the end of May.
Timetable
April – on sale now.
May – on sale soon.
June – on sale May 23rd.
July and August – on sale June 21st.
September and October – on sale August 22nd.
You can look out for a new allocation of tickets in the last week of the month preceding the sale period.
Thank you,
The MWM Team.