Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, PL35 0HD

Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, PL35 0HD Entry charges apply. For opening times - http://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/visit/
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We close for the winter so check the website for opening times. The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic houses one of the world's largest collections of items relating to witchcraft, the occult and magic. With over 3000 objects, a wise woman's cottage, a herb garden and a shrine it is a memorable place. It has been in the picturesque Cornish coastal village of Boscastle since 1960 and is one of Cornwal

l's most popular museums rated highly on Trip Advisor. The Museum intrigues visitors with its collections of charms, curses, herbs and healing and sea witchcraft. Some of our most popular items are magical tools such as glass knitting needles, objects which were used for scrying such as black mirrors, crystals and crystal balls and our collection of protection talismans made by soldiers in the trenches of World War One. The Museum also has an extensive library with other 7000 books and an archive of documents which can be viewed online or visited by appointment.

07/06/2026

Old H***y wishes all our LGBTQIA+ friends and supporters the very best of celebrations for Pride Month ❤️💜💙💛🧡💚🤎🤍

27/05/2026

Cannot wait for the forthcoming Folklore Tapes performance. Many moons ago the museum collaborated with Folklore Tapes for a special project so we are delighted to see them together again for this very special performance and exhibition. “Re-uniting for the first time in years, Folklore Tapes founding members Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker will be playing an exclusive set of material hewn together from 15 years of sonic exploration. The duo will be playing re-interpretated compositions exploring phantom pigs, witches, water spirits, plant-lore, magic and heavenly realms. Expect live homemade ritual instruments and dictaphones, alongside traditional instruments and optical light wizardry...16mm projection, OHP’s and torch magic!

There will be a selection of rare out-of-print vinyl and tape editions available on the night.” The performance will be after the 15th anniversary exhibition that opens earlier in the evening of the 5th June. Field System, in collaboration with the Museum of British Folklore, itself a custodian of the material and intangible heritage of British folk life, have put together the exhibition along with David Chatton Barker, founder of Folklore Tapes. Exhibition runs from June 5th to 21st 2026 at Field System, East Street, Ashburton, Devon, TQ13 7AH. Head to .system for booking details

26/05/2026

Following on from a recent post asking if our cameras ever pick up anything strange or unusual, here’s some footage from 2019 showing our temporary exhibition space. This is the only gallery in the museum where this happens. So, orbs or dust??? What’s the latest thinking on orbs?

Nobody tells you about the failed workings. The correspondences that felt right on paper and fell flat in practice. The ...
25/05/2026

Nobody tells you about the failed workings. The correspondences that felt right on paper and fell flat in practice. The hours of preparation that seemed to dissolve into silence.

Working within the magical realms is challenging. It’s layered, subtle, and humbling. Timing, intent, energy, correspondence, and your own inner state — they all have to move together. Miss one thread and the whole weave loosens.

But then — sometimes — everything aligns. The energies shift and the working lands. The world bends, just slightly, in the direction you called.

That’s the thing they don’t warn you about either: how deeply, quietly satisfying it is. Not triumphant — something more like recognition. Like the universe nodded back. Thank you universe and thank you Audrey….

Visitors may have noticed our little CCTV cameras dotted around. They have been in the museum for over 20 years now and ...
19/05/2026

Visitors may have noticed our little CCTV cameras dotted around. They have been in the museum for over 20 years now and enable us to monitor the amounts of people in the galleries, so we can avoid overcrowding. We understand why Al has its detractors, but in some applications it can be very helpful - such as analysing 1000’s of minutes of footage of our CCTV for example. 2,628,000 seconds for ONE feed for just ONE month! We are able to exactly pinpoint any incidents and anyone that has seen our monitoring panel in the booth, knows that with 16 cameras to check that’s a staggering 42,048,000 images of each second to analyse and cross-reference. When these images are analysed on the relatively few occasions where we have a specific concern, they are then passed to the police - or ‘other’ powers - should we ever have need to do so….

15/05/2026

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11/05/2026

Go Doc! Presenting: THE ARCHIVIST

In a battle against time, health and technology, can ‘Britain’s greatest living folklorist’ find a home for his unique archive of audio-visual material, documenting the wyrd-and-wonderful folk customs of our mongrel nation?
TICKETS TO THE WORLD PREMIERE at Sheffield DocFest AVAILABLE NOW. C Screening in competition, as part of a strand especially curated by Maxine Peake - “Ideas of Britishness through the lens of working-class representation.”
Adventures in Time & Space & Folklore!
Fifth Column Filmmakers The Doc Rowe Archive and Collection Tim Plester Tyke
Films Ben Edge Art The Museum of British
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Calling upon Nemesis on a Sunday afternoon….
10/05/2026

Calling upon Nemesis on a Sunday afternoon….

05/05/2026

As part of the Neo Ancients festival on the weekend, Professor Ronald Hutton gave a brilliant reading of, Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley.
Crowley wrote his famous invocation to Pan in Moscow in 1913. On the screen behind are some beautiful images by Sara Hannant, of Pan statues photographed in the English landscape

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