Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Morrab Road
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 4HE
England

Website

www.penleehouse.org.uk

E-mail

Education and Outreach

info@penleehouse.org.uk

jholmes@penleehouse.org.uk

Telephone

01736 363625

Fax

01736 361312

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Penlee House is the only Cornish public gallery specialising in the Newlyn School artists (c.1880 - c.1940) including Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Harold Harvey and Laura Knight. Set in an elegant Victorian house and park, Penlee House also covers West Cornwall's archaeology and social history, and offers an excellent café and well-stocked shop.

Venue Type:

Museum, Gallery, Historic house or home

 Opening hours

Good Friday to 30 September:
Monday to Saturday, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
(last admissions 4.30 pm)

1 October to Good Friday:
Monday to Saturday, 10.30 am - 4.30 pm
(last admissions 4.00 pm)
Open Bank Holidays but please note we are closed on the following dates: 24th - 28th December 2005

Closed: 24th - 28th December 2005

 Admission charges

Adults £2.00
Concessions £1.00
Children FREE
Friends of Penlee House FREE
Museum Association members FREE
National Art Collections Fund members FREE

Saturdays - FREE admission to all

Discounts

  • Museums Association
 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Gardens open to public
  • Picnic area
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in exhibition spaces
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Mail order service available
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events

Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Morrab Road
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 4HE
England

Website

www.penleehouse.org.uk

E-mail

Education and Outreach

info@penleehouse.org.uk

jholmes@penleehouse.org.uk

Telephone

01736 363625

Fax

01736 361312

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Penlee House is best known for its permanent collection of paintings by artists of the 'Newlyn School' and Lamorna Group, which we are actively developing through purchases, gifts, bequests and long-term loans. Some of the most famous works include 'The Rain it Raineth Every Day' by Norman Garstin, 'School is Out' by Elizabeth Forbes, and 'Among the Missing' by Walter Langley. Our exhibitions usually include some works from this collection, but please note that there is no permanent fine art display. If you wish to see a particular painting, please telephone before your visit to check whether it will be on display. Penlee House's wide-ranging collections cover several disciplines, and our museum displays feature changing selections of works and artefacts from each subject area.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Industry, Land Transport, Law and Order, Maritime, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Photography, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, Trade and Commerce

Key artists and exhibits

  • Paintings by artists of the Newlyn School and Lamorna Group
  • The Rain it Raineth Every Day by Norman Garstin
  • School is Out by Elizabeth Forbes
  • Among the Missing by Walter Langley
  • Etchings and lithographs by such artists as Prout, Pentreath, Daniell, Garnier and Tonkin
  • Textiles designed by Alec Walker who founded Cryséde
  • Works by photographers such as Frith and Valentine, and also by local photographers such as Preston, Moody, Gibson, Richards, Penhaul
  • Work from the early 1800s by such potters as Slooman of Penzance, to the more modern work by Troika, Celtic Pottery and Tremaen
  • Newlyn Copper and jewellery
  • Flint tools, hammer heads, arrowheads, querns, and an important collection of Bronze Age funeral urns and other pottery

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Morrab Road
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 4HE
England

Website

www.penleehouse.org.uk

E-mail

Education and Outreach

info@penleehouse.org.uk

jholmes@penleehouse.org.uk

Telephone

01736 363625

Fax

01736 361312

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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