Penlee House is a gallery, museum, cafe and shop. Situated within Penlee Park, a space to reflect and great for family visits.
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Alongside our Exhibition programme we run a variety of community events and workshops. The Newlyn School and Social history galleries change often. Find out what’s on.
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Penlee House is committed to lifelong learning. We run workshops for all age groups and offer a school workshop programme.
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Built in 1865, as the home of the Branwell family. Penlee House is home to many paintings by members of the Newlyn School. It is also home to the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society collection.
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You can search and browse our collections online. We also have a section dedicated to the Newlyn School.
Get creative by drawing your own portrait on tracing paper, then transfer each facial feature onto colourful card and paper. Finally, cut out and collage your pieces together to make a bright and cheerful portrait masterpiece to take home.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of the people in the portraits and draw yourself into one of the famous Newlyn School paintings.
Free, drop-in session for babies from birth to crawlers.
Join us to explore, play and create at Penlee House!
Our team of Volunteer Tour Guides will be offering insights into the current exhibition through a program of short guided tours.
Our team of Volunteer Tour Guides will be offering insights into the current exhibition through a program of short guided tours.
Try making your own Victorian-style silhouette artwork.
The Cornish Fishing Industry in Archive Photographs. A talk by John McWilliams. A look at the Cornish fishing industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in contemporary art and photographs.
Our team of Volunteer Tour Guides will be offering insights into the current exhibition through a program of short guided tours.
Our team of Volunteer Tour Guides will be offering insights into the current exhibition through a program of short guided tours.
Use different materials to colourise the brilliant photos of local life in West Cornwall in the 1940s and 50s.
Free, drop-in session for babies from birth to crawlers.
