News | Classic Boat Museum - Isle of Wight

A Bright Start to the Season for the Classic Boat Museum

The Boat Shed is opening for the 2023 season with a brand-new artefact, the Fresnel Lens from St Catherine’s Lighthouse. Housed at the...

Classic Boat Museum attends The Island Heritage Fair

We attended the islands heritage fair at Department in Ryde on Saturday 4th March 2023. Department is a new cultural space in what was...

The Gallery welcomed Gurnard Primary School

We recently welcomed some year 1 pupils from Gurnard Primary School to the Gallery. They had a mixture of activities to complete and...

Classic Boat Museum attends Island Volunteer Fair

We took the Classic Boat Museum out to the Isle of Wight Volunteers Fair which was organised by Community Action Isle of Wight and held...

St Catherine’s Optic - Final Stages of Installation

The St Catherine's Optic has reached the final stages of installation at The Boat Shed. One of our volunteers Roger needed to fabricate...

Women in Maritime History

The Maritime Archaeology Trust have put together stories about Women in maritime history. As with many other areas of our past, are often...

We appreciate your feedback

Feedback is really important to us so we can develop and grow the Classic Boat Museum in the future. We would appreciate you taking the...

Return of JAZZ to The Classic Boat Museum

Jazz is a Thornycroft design and built by Morgan Giles. She was on loan to the museum up until July 2018 and was then sold to a new owner...

Great Progress is being made on the installation of the St. Catherine’s Optic.

Further to our previous report of the St Catherine's Lighthouse lens being donated to the museum, great progress is being made with the...

Cowes Enterprise College Welcomed The Classic Boat Museum

Victoria Preston from the Museum spoke to 6th formers at Cowes Enterprise College on Wednesday 2nd November. The purpose of the talk was...