Featured Objects

Not just somewhere to sit

On display in our 2009 exhibition Titanic: Honour & Glory is a coat belonging to Violet Jessop

For over 150 years the Post Office Packet Service based in Falmouth, carried the British foreign mails to all parts of the western world

By the end of the 17th Century, the needs of trade and colonial expansion had made a reliable overseas mail service essential for Britain

Postie’s hat that went to the North Pole

The sailor’s fridge