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Visit Penlee House & Museum

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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A space for exhibitions & events

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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A space to learn

Penlee House is committed to lifelong learning. We run workshops for all age groups and offer a school workshop programme.

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A space for all

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.

BBC Radio Cornwall Visits Penlee House February 2020


What an exciting morning we’ve had at Penlee House Gallery & Museum! Denise, Juliet, and Suzanne shared some of their […]

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Penlee House Celebrates Museum Selfie Day 2020


Penlee House Gallery & Museum celebrate #MuseumSelfieDay2020. We hope you have enjoyed #museumselfieday as much as our digital marketing apprentice has. Here […]

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Penzance Selects through the eyes of our Citizen Curators


Penlee House’s winter exhibition this year was Penzance Selects, a community-curated exhibition showcasing paintings and artifacts from the collections. Each of […]

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Fortescue, William Banks


Like several of his fellow Newlyners, William Banks Fortescue hailed from Birmingham. Although he is very much recognised as a […]

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Forbes, Stanhope


Dubbed ‘the father of the Newlyn School’, Forbes’s painting ‘A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach’, 1885, brought national recognition […]

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