National Maritime Museum Cornwall Celebrates British Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Heritage with New Exhibition

National Maritime Museum Cornwall is delighted to announce that it will be bringing a slice of Olympic and Paralympic sailing history to Falmouth ahead of the London 2012 Games, when it hosts the RYA’s Olympic and Paralympic exhibition ‘Our Sporting Life – Sail for Gold’ from 2 May to 24 June.
In a first for the South West, visitors will be able to immerse themselves in 112 years of triumph and glory at an extraordinary installation celebrating Britain’s unique Olympic and Paralympic...

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'Our Sporting Life - Sail for Gold' exhibition featuring Ben Ainslie © Richard Langdon
The Nebra Sky Disc
Father and son enjoy new exhibition
Air sea rescue demo © Mike Newman  Ocean-Image.com
Sea King Helicopter
Hugh Pierce, Martin Leslie, James Instance and Chris Canning © Crown Copyright PO(PHOT) Paul A’Barro
Search & Rescue Exhibtion
Size matters at the Maritime Museum
The final push
A tight squeeze at the Maritime Museum
Unique Sea King HAS Mk 6
Cliff Rescue © MCA
RAF SAR © Crown copyright MOD 2011
771 RN Air Squadron © Crown copyright MOD 2011
Team Work © Crown copyright MOD 2011
RNLI Crew Member © RNLI
Climbing out of an ice floe
Pen Hadow
Pen Hadow on top of the world
Sally Newman and Anthony Ward
Kari Herbert
Sir Wally Herbert
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Pen Hadow
Inuit Girl
Emperor penguin
Captain Scott and his team
Endurance in ice (c) SPRI
Sir Ernest Shackleton (c) SPRI
Pen Hadow (c) Martin Hartley
On Thin Ice promotional artwork
Image 3 - A painting showing similar birch bark canoes (c) John Buxton
Image 2 – The Birch Bark Canoe seeing daylight for the time in decades
Image 1 - The Birch Bark Canoe on location on the Enys Estate.
Birch Bark Canoes