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Where is it? Is there one?

Someone recently posted some super photos from the not too distant past and it got me thinking
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Not sure about a museum but there's a historical diving society who have some interesting stuff.

The Historical Diving Society
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These people have a new diving exhibition - National Maritime Museum Cornwall - and maybe more stuff in their reserve collections?

I have also spent some hours exploring this site - Diving Heritage.

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These people have a new diving exhibition - National Maritime Museum Cornwall - and maybe more stuff in their reserve collections?

I have also spent some hours exploring this sitexhibits - Diving Heritage.

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I was at the Falmouth museum yesterday. There are some interesting exhibits including some nice spidge.
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Whitstable Museum has quite a bit of diving history and has won an international award for it:-

Whitstable museum and art gallery
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The shipwreck museum at Charlestown near St Austell has quite a bit of diving stuff.
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The shipwreck museum at Charlestown near St Austell has quite a bit of diving stuff.
thats quite a good place actually not just for the diving bit but the shipwreck stuff too.
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thats quite a good place actually not just for the diving bit but the shipwreck stuff too.
yeap especially useful to visit if you get blown out for the day
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yeap especially useful to visit if you get blown out for the day
or to go when it statrts pissing down as you arrive in St Austell on the way to Eden.

it must be good as SWMBO who only likes 'proper educational ' places to go thought it was brilliant.
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