, United Kingdom
St. Agnes VR Experience
Using VR Technology, visitors can explore St. Agnes' unique harbour at the peak of its glory days.
If you visit St Agnes beach today you will see a pile of rocks, where once was a thriving harbour at the centre of merchants, trade, goods, ships, buyers, sailors, pedestrians and more. Through the Coastal Timetripping experience, embedded within St. Agnes Museum, adventurers step back into the harbour of times past. VR technology brings not just the harbour itself to life, but also the ships coming in, the goods that were traded, and the life and bustle of the port in the heyday mining days, now marked with the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site status. Timetrippers physically sit on one of the old pieces of the harbour as they enter the experience and in keeping with 2021 Covid-19 regulations, Cleanboxes, which use UV light to kill bacteria and viruses (including Covid-19), will be used on the VR headset between visitors so there is no fear of the infection of modern time impinging the timetripping fun.
Audience Role
This is a purely passive VR experience, staff are available to help where necessary.
Ages: 13 +
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About Coastal Timetripping
Coastal Timetripping is a new and different kind of travel. Via timetripping, you’ll traverse through both time and geographies, discovering the enigmatic coastline, rich heritage and surrounding landscape of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Five special museums in rural locations are home to specific timetripping technology that makes it possible for you to go on the ultimate modern-day historical journey. Alongside your physical adventures around the Cornish coast and the Isles of Scilly, you can unwrap new understandings of the people, the lives and the stories of the ones who have gone before us. Coastal Timetripping is here to guide you to the hidden gems, linking you to Bude, Porthcurno, St Agnes, Looe and the Isles of Scilly – as well as connecting you to the history, heritage and landscapes in between.