Penlee House Gallery & Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Hayle, Cornwall
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendlyEducationalToddler sessionsGardens🛝 Playground
What’s there
- Café on site
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Penlee House is an art gallery and museum set within Penlee Park's subtropical gardens. The gallery focuses on West Cornish art, particularly works by the Newlyn School and Lamorna artists. The museum covers local history including archaeology, ceramics, social history and fashion, along with the collections of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. The house itself, built in 1865 as the home of the Branwell family, hosts changing exhibitions in its Newlyn School and Social History galleries. There's a licensed café serving coffee, light lunch and afternoon tea with homemade cakes prepared to order. The venue runs workshops for all ages, school visits, family activities, talks and guided tours.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Car window sunshade
- Notebook
- Lunch boxes
- Travel sickness bands
- Toddler reins
- Pram rain cover
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