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CORNWALL TOURISM AWARDS 2006 - Visitor Attraction of the Year - Bronze Award Penlee House Gallery & Museum is an elegant gallery set within a Victorian house and park. Changing exhibitions mainly feature the art of the area from 1880 to 1940, often including the famous ‘Newlyn School’ artists such as Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Harold Harvey and ‘Lamorna’ Birch. The museum collections cover the archaeology and social history of the Penwith district. There is an extensive photographic archive, holding thousands of images, which can be studied via a computer terminal within the Museum. Penlee House also offers an excellent café and shop.