A museum that housed the national fairground collection is closing for the final time this weekend.
The Fairground Heritage Trust announced in March the Dingles Fairground Museum in Lifton, on the Devon and Cornwall border, would close in the October half-term.
Trustee Guy Belshaw said there were “a large number of factors” for the closure and the Covid-19 pandemic had been “terrible” for the attraction.
The collection of vintage art, stalls, organs, a penny arcade and operational fairground rides will be moved to a new museum in Staffordshire.
Mr Belshaw said: “The pandemic was terrible for us, we lost tens of thousands of pounds and the costs have just run away with us.
“It’s also the fact that we’re in a very remote location here and it needs to be more accessible to people, really.”
Brian Alice has volunteered at the museum for 17 years.
He said: “It’s great that it’s been preserved and it’s good to think that now it’s closing here, it’s going to another park as a whole.”
One of the rarer pieces in the collection is the Shaw’s Moon-Rocket, a space-themed merry-go-round.
A total of 15 of the rides were designed in Germany in the 1930s and built in the UK, and Mr Belshaw said “this is the only one in working condition that has survived”.
All tickets for the final opening day on Saturday have already been sold.