Children and students get in free. It covers a wide range subjects to do with the history of astronomy and of navigation, as well as 'just' eclipses. A considerable number of significant books and artefacts, not normally on public display, have been lent from the RAS collection, including the first editions of Newton's Principia and Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis. You will also find many interesting instruments including a sextant said to have been used by Captain Cook. It runs until 23 October and the museum is open Tuesday to Saturday and on Bank Holiday Mondays, 10.00 to 17.00.
Admission is free.
The Tate Gallery, St. Ives , has mounted an exhibition entitled As Dark as Light , mainly of contemporary works of art by Yuko Shiraishi, Gia Edzveradze and Garry Fabian Miller. There are also relevant works by Turner and Whistler. There is a small section of older material and items lent by the RAS, which includes diagrams and drawings of eclipses. There is one of Edmund Halley's eclipse maps and, notably, an album of original photographs of the 1860 eclipse expedition to Spain, probably collected by Warren de la Rue, which contains both the first concerted attempts at eclipse photography and what are probably the earliest photos of the participants in an eclipse expedition. The Tate is also displaying a collection of children's art related to the eclipse.