The Mayflower Museum and Plymouth Tourist Information Centre

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The Mayflower Museum explores the Mayflower Story in new ways. Visitors travel over three floors exploring history and encounters, exploration and impacts and commemoration and legacy. It begins with Wampanoag history and culture. Thanks to an on-going partnership with members of the Native American tribal nation, their insights are shared alongside the stories of earlier English voyages to America which shaped histories and legacies on both sides of the Atlantic. The exhibition considers the impact of English colonisation on indigenous communities – then and now. It also reflects on commemorations through time and England’s changing and enduring relationship with America. Younger visitors will enjoy the Turtle Island animation. Using period objects, maps and music it tells the story of the emergence of America. There is a children's trail encouraging younger visitors to learn more about Wampanoag life and culture, as well as the Mayflower and its passengers.