The award-winning Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, is the only Cornish public gallery specialising in the world famous Newlyn School artists (c.1880 - 1940) including Frank Bramley, Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Harold Harvey and Laura Knight.
In recent years, the Gallery has built an international reputation for its year-round programme of temporary exhibitions, which offer the unique opportunity of viewing major Cornish works, borrowed from public and private collections across the UK, a stone’s throw from where they were created.
Changing displays always include a selection from Penlee House’s permanent collection, ensuring that the Newlyn School are usually represented in at least one gallery, but please call before your visit if you would like to see a particular picture.
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 shop, with full wheelchair access throughout and children's quizzes and colouring table.
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