Here at the gallery we are still working online with young artists from around the city. Ava Tier is currently working towards her Silver Arts Award with us, with a focus on Anime and storytelling.
⁠#museumpassion⁠

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It is impossible to showcase the work of Heath Robinson without a stop off at his time as 'The
Gadget King'

His cartoons featuring wacky machines and odd contraptions were what eventually put his name in the dictionary!📘📘

'Bedroom Comfort' (1933)

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Bringing old stories to life at the House of Manannan, a scene by Julia Ashby-Smyth. Inspired by the Medieval manuscript, The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles. In 1228, King Olaf II faced his brother Reginald at Tynwald. It didn’t end well for Reginald!

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3. Sandra, Administrator.
My favourite thing about Penlee House is the picture The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Elizabeth Forbes: I think she is a hugely underrated talent and often better than her more famous husband, Stanhope.

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Another favourite collection for day. Letters and stories sent by a local man to his daughter during the First World War - held at Littlehampton Museum. https://t.co/TmwJtxAokT

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Currently on show at Penlee House is 'Newlyn School Interiors'

The Newlyn School artists are famous for painting outdoors, ‘en Plein air’. The Cornish light and landscape attracted painters to Newlyn.

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Do you need a disco ball?

Etching by Jost Amman to illustrate 16th century goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer's Perspectiva corporum regularium, 1568.

https://t.co/xjmykC8nvc

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We specialise in the art of the Newlyn School, a group of painters who settled in Newlyn (just down the road from here) in the 1880s and a later colony of artists who settled in the Lamorna valley. Which do you like best?
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We're all ready for the party to start!




1. Native American horse party - c.1900s.
2. Hastings Museum's 125th Birthday Party, 2017
3. The Mayor's garden party, 1902
4. Children's tea party c.1940s

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Love the humour in this Do you think the creators were inspired by this 1912 image?

Thanks to the passion and dedication of the original collector, ARPostcards, this is now in our collection. Find out more at https://t.co/j2HNMexhve

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