Royal Cornwall Museum: The Royal Cornwall Museum is located in the heart of the beautiful city of Truro. On entering the ground floor of the museum, a modern explorer will find a display of local material from prehistoric times to the present day. In the Rashleigh gallery the visitor can examine minerals from all over the world and one of the best collections of Cornish minerals in the country, including the largest known crystal of Liroconite in the world.
On the first floor is displayed a wide range of decorative and applied art including a large selection of ceramics. Classical civilisations are represented by Greek and Roman artefacts and there is a dedicated Egyptian gallery with its resident mummy. .
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