Organizers and Researchers
Adult Groups and Organizers
Book with Mick Green, our administrator: tel. 01947 601900, or email: cookmuseum@tiscali.co.uk. Open all year to adult groups (10+) by arrangement, £3.00 per head.
- Specially suitable for groups interested in heritage and history
- Nadfas, Probus, TWG, TGI will enjoy
- Set down and pick up 30 yards from entrance
- Experienced Museum Guides
- Introductory session - 30 minutes
- Tour of the Museum
- Special Exhibition 2008 'Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas: Cook's Voyage to the Arctic'
- Allow 1½ hours
View the sections of the website which describe the Museum Special Exhibition 2008 or Museum Highlights or Tour the Museum.
The Museum in Walker's House, built in the 17th century, is on four floors. We have a lift which takes wheel chairs one by one to the 1st floor, and a DVD about the 2nd floor and attic for visitors who would not want to tackle the stairs. For full details please view our accessibility page.
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Researchers
The museum has a collection of original letters relating to Cook – correspondence between Cook and Captains Walker and Hammond, and between Joseph Banks, J.R. Forster and the widowed Elizabeth Cook with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich. The most important of them are on general exhibition.
The Museum also has a collection of antiquarian travel books collected by Sir Robert Clark and generously donated to the museum. Some are on temporary display, and access is granted to bona fide scholars by special appointment. Please write in the first instance to the Librarian and let us know your interests. For conservation reasons access may be limited.
The Museum reserves the right to decide if access should be allowed subject to availability of our staff.
