Short answer: generally assistance dogs only inside the museum galleries, but the grounds and café area are a different story.
Like most small heritage museums with historic displays and narrow rooms, The Castle Bude typically restricts pet dogs inside the exhibition space itself.
The café upstairs and the surrounding grounds are usually more relaxed, making it possible to enjoy part of a visit — coffee and cake with a view — even without going through the museum itself.
Given how close The Castle sits to Summerleaze Beach, splitting the visit — one person in the museum, the other walking the dog on the beach — is the easiest solution.
A quick check of current policy is worth doing if the museum specifically is the reason for your visit.
The Castle Bude is small enough that a full visit rarely takes more than forty minutes, which makes splitting the group a low-cost option rather than a real sacrifice.
Local shipwreck history and the town's smuggling past are the highlights — worth a look if you're interested in Bude specifically rather than Cornwall in general.
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