On the morning of Wednesday 11th September 2019, two of our volunteers headed down to Falmouth to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall to collect three boats belonging to the Royal Museums Greenwich collection that they no longer required. They have been very kindly...
For the last two years the Museum has launched an annual fundraising campaign to coincide with the Localgiving Grow Your TENNER campaign. In the first year from November 2016 we raised £8,650 and last year from October 2017 we raised £9,380, which was remarkable consi...
This classic racing yacht, originally built as a fishing smack in 1872 by JS Whites, was converted into a racing yacht for Richard Grant JP before passing to the Ratsey family who owned her for many years. She returned to Cowes last Wednesday 21st November with the he...
Peter Lloyd the Major of East Cowes and Geoff Banks former mayor of Cowes
The official opening of the WW1 Isle of Innovation Exhibition- Then and Now last week at the East Cowes Gallery, to coincide with the important weekend of commemoration, was a fitting momen...
The Museum have taken delivery of the the huge solid wing used on a test boat and in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup during the 35th America’s Cup from Ben Ainslie.
It was a wonderful evening at 'The Shed' with Cowes Classic Boat Week competitors.
The event supported by Red Funnel the Royal London Yacht Club and Classic Boat Museum volunteers was the first opportunity to open the doors of the museum to a big crowd!
Opening on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10-4pm the museum provides visitors with a voyage of discovery mapping out the history of the Isle of Wight and Cowes through its marine heritage.
