🔎 Difficult & fiddly repair work formed part of the training for students at Porthcurno. This suspension repair kit was used to repair delicate parts of galvanometers & relays which required great skill, a keen eye, and a steady hand.

Explore the Museum: pkporthcurno.com

♻️ Join us tomorrow morning for our latest Planet PK Champions session!

This month we’ll be getting creative and giving plastic bags a second life - transforming them into charming fish windsocks you can fly in the wind!

➡️ pkporthcurno.com/planet-pk/pk-c…

#Cornwall #Penzance

In our last #PlanetPK Champions session we made this fungi web to explore the hidden world of mycelium! Mycelium connects most of the plants and fungi in the world, using tiny communicative threads that can send and receive information, food and resources.

#PlanetPK

We are happy to share that PK Porthcurno will be operating within our Summer Opening hours starting tomorrow. ☀️

That means we are open 7 days a week - right up to the end of October.

To explore the museum, plan your visit and more - visit our website: pkporthcurno.com

Check out this brilliant drawing of Morgy, our giant communications squid by Oliver, aged 7.

Find Morgy in our gardens where you can speak into and hear messages through his tentacles! We would love to see more of Morgy so please tag us in any of your pictures 🦑

Looking to keep the family entertained during this wet and windy weather? 🌦️

Tomorrow, join us in Porthcurno for our FREE Planet PK Champions Workshop. Designed to educate young people about protecting the environment

pkporthcurno.com/planet-pk/pk-c…

PK Porthcurno is taking part in The National Lottery Open Week, to say a huge thanks to #NationalLottery players for their support. #ThanksToYo

We're offering half-price entry for all visitors with a The National Lottery ticket or scratch card.

Learn more ⬇️
pkporthcurno.com/events/event/n…

#BritishScienceWeek theme is time.

On Friday we took our one and only Mobile Telegraph Station (aka Poppy) to meet students at Truro&PenwithCollege, to take a step back to the 1950s & imagine what it must have been like to work in a mobile telegraph office

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Our March theme is 40 Years of Mobile Phones📱 #MobilePhones40 inspired by @BenWood's work on the current Going Mobile exhibition, a collaboration between the Mobile Phone Museum MobilePhoneMuseum & Museum of Global Communication PK Porthcurno. Read more here: buff.ly/3PgwaGT

#InternationalWomensDay
WWII dispatch riders were vital messengers who braved dangerous conditions to deliver urgent messages.
They operated at a time when communication technology was limited & often insecure.

Visit the PK online collection for yourself: pkoc.co.uk

Happy #WorldBookDay ! 📚
To celebrate we’re offering a 25% discount on all our books - both in the PK shop and in our online store.

🛒 Shop here: pkporthcurno.com/product-catego…
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Offer Valid:
In shop | Saturday 09 & Sunday 10 March
Online | Thursday 07 – Sunday 10 March

✨Would you like to work at an exciting, award-winning #Cornish museum?

We're searching for cheerful, welcoming Visitor Services Assistants to join our team. Have a passion for people & the enthusiasm to make a difference?

We’d love to hear from you ⬇️
pkporthcurno.com/uncategorised/…

🥳 📞 Happy Birthday to the Nokia 7110, displayed in our latest exhibition, 'Going Mobile'.

The exhibit includes over 70 phones and objects selected from the MobilePhoneMuseum’s extraordinary collection & much more!

Learn more⬇️
⭐️ pkporthcurno.com/exhibitions/go…
☎️ mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/n…

. National Trust have introduced Dartmoor Ponies to land above @pkporthcurno for conservation grazing. Their trampling & nibbling means aggressive species like bracken and coarse grasses don't dominate - so wildflowers can thrive, creating more diverse habitat🐴

📷Chris Brown