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.

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Found 465 objects in the category Natural Science

Pegmatite

Piece of pegmatite, a very coarse-grained igneous rock.

PEZPH : 1994.256
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Hornfels

Piece of hornfels, with interbedded greenstone and killas. A hard, compact contact-metamorphic rock of any grain size, dominantly composed of silicate and oxide minerals in varying proportions.

PEZPH : 1994.255
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Purple fluorite

Piece of ore containing purple fluorite.

PEZPH : 1994.252
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Mineral

Piece of granite.

PEZPH : 1994.253
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Granite

Piece of fine grained granite.

PEZPH : 1994.254
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Dolomite

Piece of dolomite, an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate.

PEZPH : 1994.249
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Aragonite

Piece of aragonite, a carbonate mineral and one of the two common, naturally occurring, crystal forms of calcium carbonate (the other form being the mineral calcite).

PEZPH : 1994.250
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Green fluorite

Piece of ore containing green fluorite.

PEZPH : 1994.251
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Schorl tourmaline

Piece of schorl tourmaline ore, the most common form of Tourmaline, a complex sodium iron aluminium boro-silicate hydroxide.

PEZPH : 1994.248
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Mineral

Piece of quartz.

PEZPH : 1994.245.3
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Calcite

Piece of calcite, the most common form of natural calcium carbonate.

PEZPH : 1994.246
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Muscovite mica

Piece of muscovite mica, the most common mineral of the mica family, a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium.

PEZPH : 1994.247
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Mineral

Piece of quartz.

PEZPH : 1994.245.1
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Mineral

Piece of quartz.

PEZPH : 1994.245.2
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Mineral

Piece of quartz.

PEZPH : 1994.242
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Quartz

Piece of quartz, iron stained.

PEZPH : 1994.243
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Mineral

Piece of galena, the natural mineral form of lead sulphide, the primary ore of lead and an important source of silver.

PEZPH : 1994.240
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Iron pyrite

Piece of iron pyrite.

PEZPH : 1994.238
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