🏠 IndoorEducational🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Limited parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No museum car park. The museum's visitor page names town car parks (Creek, Shadycombe Road, Whitestrand) and a park-and-ride from the A381 in summer. Public toilets are in Whitestrand Car Park, as the museum has none.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
A small, friendly museum on one level beneath the Salcombe Tourist Information Centre, in the town's Old Council Hall. Its collection of models, paintings, photographs and tools traces the town's links with ships and the sea, from ancient times to the Second World War, and includes a gallery of paintings of the 19th-century fruit schooners built in Salcombe. Children have a Young Sailors' Corner with hands-on displays, models and a pirate treasure theme, and the Wreck Room shows finds recovered from shipwrecks along the coast. It suits a relaxed visit on a family day in a seaside town, and entry is free. Volunteers run the museum, so opening can vary and is worth checking before a special trip.
Seasonal opening, roughly end of March to end of October, with a winter closure.
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.- Waterproof phone pouch
Pocket money purseGift shop answered in advance, in numbers.
Sick bagsYou only forget these once.- Sting relief
Boiled sweets for the carEars on hills, boredom on motorways.
Tissues
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · yawning hunter, CC BY 2.0 · Politikaner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Web-Betty, CC BY 2.0
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