Founded in 1958 the Brixam Heritage and History museum has many fascinating exhibits for the visitor to enjoy. Its spacious Maritime Gallery celebrates Brixham's illustrious seafaring past, and includes displays of shipwrights' tools, sail making, navigation aids and models of famous local fishing vessels. There are imaginative and nostalgic reconstructions of Victorian life, a display of churches in Brixham and a military display about the Napoleonic Wars. Brixham's more recent wartime experiences are recorded in a display devoted to the two World Wars.