Cornwall Heritage Trust ~ Preserving Cornwall's Story

Let us bring Cornwall’s heritage to you with one of our outreach workshops. We offer a range of workshops with hands-on activities all aimed at bringing history and heritage to life.

Our outreach workshops can cater for all ages and abilities and are currently offered for just £3.50 per student. Each workshop has a suggested duration of 90 minutes.

Historic Landscape Art
Taking inspiration from Cornwall’s unique landscape and heritage, create your own artistic masterpiece.

Prehistoric Jewellery Making
Taking inspiration from examples of Iron Age jewellery create your own hoard.

Medieval Marvels
Taking inspiration from the Medieval Bestiary and combining Cornish folklore, learn the art of book binding and produce your own bestiary full of Cornish marvels.

Plagues and Potions
Investigate ideas about the causes of the Black Death and Plague and discover cures offered by practitioners of medicine in the past. Create your own herbal remedy or potion, and set up your own apothecary.

Minerals and Mining: Cornwall Rocks!
Explore Cornwall’s geology. Discover surprising facts, such as how many Cornish minerals there are in a mobile phone and create your own mining landscape diorama.

NEW FOR 2025 – Cornwall’s heritage ‘Discovery Boxes’ workshops

Transform your classroom into a museum and get hands-on with Cornwall’s heritage. New for 2025, these workshops will take students on incredible journeys through the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Industrial history.

Suitable for KS1, KS2 and KS3, these classroom-based workshops are currently offered for just £3.50 per student. Each workshop has a suggested duration of 90 minutes.

Introducing… An Virva – the ‘Exhibition Room’

We also now have the option for your workshop to be accompanied by An Virva, our brand-new heritage hub. The hub is packed with fun-filled activities to help your students discover Cornwall’s unique landscapes, stories, traditions and people.