Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum
Museums & Science Centres · St Austell, Cornwall
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Closed — opens 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–58–1212–16EducationalBirthday partiesMemberships availableSchool holiday activities🛝 PlaygroundAdventure play🌲 Woodland☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Birthday parties
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Wheal Martyn is the UK's only china clay mining museum, set within two Victorian clay works that are now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. China clay has shaped mid-Cornwall's landscape and economy for over 250 years, and the museum tells the story of this industry and the people who worked in the shadows of the region's iconic 'white pyramids'. The clay itself hides in everyday products: toothpaste, paper, car tyres and cosmetics. Visitors can explore hands-on craft activities (Monday to Friday during school holidays), play traditional lawn games around the grounds, and see rotating exhibitions and performances. The museum is fully accredited.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Rucksack
- Sun cream
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Car window sunshade
- I-spy book
- Sunglasses
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