Museums · South West England
Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum
Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum — museum in Cornwall, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Penzance · 0.9 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Address: TR18 4BN. Wikidata describes it as: "museum in Cornwall, England". Coordinates: 50.1164°, -5.5411°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: West Penwith Moors and Downs SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cornwall
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre was a museum in Penzance, Cornwall, UK which housed the national collection of Trinity House. It included significant amounts of lighthouse memorabilia which visitors could interact with, as well as a recreation of a light house keeper's bedroom. In February 2005 Trinity House announced the museum's closure and relocation of the collection to Plymouth. Trinity House confirmed that they would not be relocating the collection in 2009, and were in negotiations with National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth where some of the material was subsequently put on display.
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Background
History
The National Lighthouse Centre was a museum opened by Trinity House, an organisation with a history of building and maintaining lighthouses, in 1989. The museum building was converted from the Trinity House buoy store, part of the Penzance Depot, where buoys were stored and repaired. It featured an interactive experience of lighthouse keepers, as well has housing Trinity House's collection of lighthouse equipment. It also featured a recreation of a lighthouse keeper's bed room where visitors were able to touch the exhibits, a collection of optics, lighthouse keepers' uniforms and documentation The museum also traced the history of Trinity House, and featured a selection of buoys from the…
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- Coordinates
- 50.1164, -5.5411
- District
- Cornwall
- Parish
- Penzance
- Postcode
- TR18 4BN
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Ives
- Nearest railway station
- Penzance — 0.9 km
- Official site
- www.penleehouse.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7842851 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Building in Penzance (6329).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum?
- Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum is in South-West England, United Kingdom (postcode TR18 4BN), in the parish of Penzance.
- Who owns Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum?
- Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum is owned by | designation1 = Grade II.
- Is Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum a protected site?
- Yes — Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum is part of the Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the West Penwith Moors and Downs SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Penzance, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode TR18 4BN.