'Our Sporting Life - Sail for Gold' exhibition featuring Ben Ainslie © Richard Langdon

National Maritime Museum Cornwall Celebrates British Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Heritage with New Exhibition

4/17/2012 10:01 AM EST
National Maritime Museum Cornwall is delighted to announce that it will be bringing a slice of Olympic and Paralympic sailing history to Falmouth ahead of the London 2012 Games, when it hosts the RYA’s Olympic and Paralympic exhibition ‘Our Sporting Life – Sail for Gold’ from 2 May to 24 June.
In a first for the South West, visitors will be able to immerse themselves in 112 years of triumph and glory at an extraordinary installation celebrating Britain’s unique Olympic and Paralympic...
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'Our Sporting Life - Sail for Gold' exhibition featuring Ben Ainslie © Richard Langdon
The Nebra Sky Disc
Hugh Pierce, Martin Leslie, James Instance and Chris Canning © Crown Copyright PO(PHOT) Paul A’Barro
Father and son enjoy new exhibition
Air sea rescue demo © Mike Newman Ocean-Image.com
Sea King Helicopter
Search & Rescue Exhibtion
Size matters at the Maritime Museum
A tight squeeze at the Maritime Museum
The final push
Unique Sea King HAS Mk 6
771 RN Air Squadron © Crown copyright MOD 2011
Cliff Rescue © MCA
RAF SAR © Crown copyright MOD 2011
RNLI Crew Member © RNLI
Team Work © Crown copyright MOD 2011
Pen Hadow
Pen Hadow on top of the world
Climbing out of an ice floe
Captain Scott and his team
Emperor penguin
Inuit Girl
Pen Hadow
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Wally Herbert
Kari Herbert
Sally Newman and Anthony Ward
Pen Hadow (c) Martin Hartley
Sir Ernest Shackleton (c) SPRI
Endurance in ice (c) SPRI
On Thin Ice promotional artwork
Image 1 - The Birch Bark Canoe on location on the Enys Estate.
Image 2 – The Birch Bark Canoe seeing daylight for the time in decades
Image 3 - A painting showing similar birch bark canoes (c) John Buxton
Enys Canoe