Museum of Witchcraft Diary

We have been included in a worldwide list of niche Museums to visit.  This includes the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico and ...

There was a witch on a door, drawn by Cecil Williamson when the museum first opened in Boscastle in 1960. We decided to reinstate her as the...

Our visiting students have played detective today and made lots of connections between old Museum information cards written by the Museum...

This weekend, the Museum was visited by a documentary film maker who is investigating Wicca.  Simon and Joyce were both interviewed and answ...

This day of talks will include a talk on the Warboys witch case.  It isn't run by the Museum but it looks interesting.

This morning, seven students arrived from New Jersey.  They are going to help us by doing some cataloguing of items in the Museum archive. ...

The Museum has been incredibly busy so far this season.  Joyce calculated that on Sunday 19th July the till recorded a transation every two ...

Patchouli, the Witch's Cat is a very popular item in our shop and online shop.  She is really cute and smells lovely (well she is s...

OF SHADOWS One Hundred Objects from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic by Sara Hannant and Simon Costin Work is progressing on a new boo...

You can listen to Joyce's explanation of mandrake root history using a mandrake from the Museum's Richel collection online here:...

Marti Dean, the artist who crafted the magnificent Stag's Head window display, has been mucking in at the Museum this week. First...

We get many positive comments from our visitors - often when they leave and say "that was amazing" or words to that effect.  We g...

Every year, we are visited by American students who generously give up their time to help us with the Museum archive.  These visits are org...

The Museum was visited by Laura and James Roberts at the weekend.  They presented us with a very generous donation which was raised by their...

Simon Costin, the Director of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts London.  We...

We get lots of fantastic reviews on Trip Advisor (thanks to anyone who wrote one for us!)  We now have a space in the front window which we ...

The other magazines that we have started to stock are selling well and we now have a new magazine in our Museum shop - Witchcraft and Wic...

Thanks to the Bideford Youth Pipe Band for their free performance on the bridge in Boscastle today.

This week a film crew set up to shoot a scene for a new TV adaptation of a Rosamunde Pilcher story.  It was all fairly hush-hush, but inform...

The Museum welcomes well behaved dogs on leads.  We now have this sign on our noticeboard in the entranceway to communicate this to our  vis...