The letter from Jane Austen to her sister could sell for £200,000, the museum hopes A previously unseen letter penned by Jane Austen is set to be sold by Torquay Museum. The letter, from the famous ...

Torquay Museum, which will be 175 years old this year, is appealing for help to ensure its future. The museum needs to generate more than £170,000 a year from visitor income to remain sustainable, ...

A FLAGGING museum would be absorbed in a tourist attraction that embraces the full Great Ocean Road experience, under a new plan being considered by the council. The proposed major development ...

A previously unseen letter by Jane Austen in which she first writes about Pride And Prejudice has gone on public display for the first time. The double folded sheet, sent by Austen to her sister ...

A dazzling new light show on Torquay seafront has cast an illuminating new light on a 200 year old secret and the largely forgotten work of two important women scientists who lived in the town. The ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Another ‘normal day’ at the Torquay Museum in Devon for local staff has ended in a bit more than a scenic cruise around an old building. Whilst taking a look around the ...

A piece of jawbone that has lain in Torquay Museum, Devon, for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe. The Kents Cavern specimen was thought to be about ...

THE charming English garden in Agatha Christie's home town of Torquay is not always what it seems. The plants are all poisonous, and each features in an illicit elixir in an Agatha Christie book. Much ...

The coffin pre-dates the mummified boy's body it contains by 1,000 years A coffin on display at a museum in Devon is a rare 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, it has emerged. Torquay Museum were ...

A previously unseen letter penned by Jane Austen is set to be sold by Torquay Museum. The letter, from the famous author to her sister, makes a reference to her novel Pride and Prejudice - which at ...

The coffin pre-dates the mummified boy's body it contains by 1,000 years A coffin on display at a museum in Devon is a rare 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, it has emerged. Torquay Museum were ...