FREE family activities take place every Saturday; drop in anytime between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm. Create rain sounds for our famous painting The Rain it Raineth Every Day by making your own rain stick.  

The exhibition A Passion for Cornish Art contains quite a few paintings of buildings.  Be inspired by artists such as David Haughton and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham to decorate a row of houses. FREE family activities take place every Saturday; drop in anytime between 2:30 pm and 3.30 p.m.  

Join us to explore, play and create at Penlee House!  With activities throughout the galleries, these free, drop-in sessions are for under 5s and their grown-ups. Monthly on Mondays, 10am-12pm.

Painting Conservator, Sarah Cove ACR  will be giving a lecture about What’s in a Crack? This lecture focuses on the materials and techniques of Stanhope Forbes and the Newlyn School Painters. Lectures take place at 7.30 p.m. at  Penlee House (unless otherwise stated). Booking is essential.  Please telephone 01736 363625 Paintings conservator and technical art […]

There is colour everywhere in the exhibition A Passion for Cornish Art.  Some artists have chosen dull, muted colours and some use really bright colours!  Design your own colourful collage using a selection of craft papers. FREE family activities occur every Saturday; drop in anytime between 2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m.  

Join us for a relaxed opening at Penlee House. This event is designed for visitors with sensory needs or those needing a quieter, more relaxed visit, plus their families, friends and carers.

The Victorians used to make their own Christmas cards by hand.  Come along and have a go at creating a Christmas card for someone you know. FREE family activities occur every Saturday; drop in anytime between 2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m.