When women go to sea

AN exhibition opening at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, #Cornwall, depicts the hidden histories of women at sea. #Mermaids: Women at Sea tells the compelling stories of women who have challenged the establishment and made their mark in a male dominated world.  

It will feature extraordinary women such as Mary Lang, who joined a crew on the last of the merchant sailing ships –known as windjammers – to journey from South Australia to Cornwall in the 1930s, and Ellen MacArthur, the fastest woman ever to circumnavigate the globe in 2005.

Tehmina Goskar, the museum’s senior curator, says: ‘There have always been superstitions about women and the sea, from the myths of mermaids luring unsuspecting men to a watery death to the ill fortune a woman aboard a ship was meant to have brought to a voyage and its male crew. 

One of Cornwall's most famous legends is the Mermaid of Zennor, and visitors to the exhibition will be able to see and touch a 3D print of the famous mermaid carving in St. Senara Church in Zennor — the first time the museum has used this technology to present an exhibit.’

The exhibition runs until February 21.

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