| 1744 | | John Wesley visits Trewint in Cornwall - his host, Digory Isbell, builds a chapel and guest room onto his cottage
The cottage is now open as a museum |
| 1751 | | Building of the Lizard Lighthouse - most southerley in Mainland Britain |
| 1753 | | The governments purchase of Sloanes
collection becomes the foundation of the British Museum |
| 1845 | | Museum opened at Dorchester, Dorset |
| 1877 | | Henry Jenner discovers a fragment of early Cornish verse consisting of 41-line on the back of a charter dated 1340 while working at the British Museum as Keeper of Manuscripts
Jenner was responsible for the revival of the Cornish language in the early 20th century |
| 1896 | | Building of Foresters Hall, Liskeard, Cornwall
It now houses the Town Museum |
| 1922 | | Russell-Cotes ArtGallery and Museum opened
The Russel-Cotes gave their house, furnishings and art collection to the town |
| 1950.May.24 | | Opening of Wesley Cottage at Trewint in Cornwall as a Wesley Museum and place of pilgrimage |
| 1952 | | Opening of the Red House Museum in Christchurch, Dorset |
| 1963 | | Opening of the Rothesay Museum in Bournemouth |
| 1981 | | Museum of Electricity opened in Christchurch, Dorset, by John Wedgewood |
| 1989 | | Opening of the Waterfront Museum in Poole |
| 1990 | | Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre opens in Penzance |
| 1992.Apr.17 | | British Cycling Museum opens at Camelford in Cornwall |
| 1994 | | Opening of the Keep Military Museum at Dorchester, Dorset |
| 1998.Aug.24 | | 24 beads, said to be the ones used in 1626 to buy Manhattan from Native Americans, are donated to the Native American Museum of North America at the Crazy Horse Memorial |
| 2002.Jun.06 | | HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, opens the Liskeard and District Museum and Stuart House |
| 2003.Nov.04 | | Nuremberg couple, Helmut and Erika Simon, acknowledged by court in Bolzano as the finders of Oetzi, - a 5,300-year-old frozen male corpse, the best preserved ever found, while walking in South Tyrol in 1991
Oetzi is the star attraction at Bolzano museum |
