Activities and Events

Forest Friends is a new forest school-inspired sensory workshop designed for children under 5 with their grown-ups, where stories come to life in a magical outdoor setting. These all-weather, outdoor sessions will be inspired by favourite children’s stories and seasonal themes exploring the creative and practical use of tools and natural materials. Be dressed and ready

Exiles is the fourth collaboration between musicians Bagas Degol and writer Annamaria Murphy and their first collaboration with PK Porthcurno, Museum of Global Communications. Set in the 1960’s, ‘Exiles’ is a magical, musical and spoken word Odyssey based on extraordinary tales and characters from the Cable & Wireless archive. Starting with the infamous Porthcurno car

Join us for an exciting session where we delve into the mysteries of interstellar communication and explore the potential for life beyond Earth.

Forest Friends is a new forest school-inspired sensory workshop designed for children under 5 with their parents/carers, where stories come to life in a magical outdoor setting. These all-weather, outdoor sessions will be inspired by favourite children’s stories and seasonal themes exploring the creative and practical use of tools and natural materials. Be dressed and ready

On Sunday, be sure to come and say hello as we enjoy a fun day on Penzance promenade for Golowan Quay Day.

Join our hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to craft seed bombs that promote biodiversity and support butterfly populations.

Join us for an exciting October half term with a diverse range of engaging and family-friendly activities to enjoy.

To celebrate Children’s Gardening Week, we will put your building skills to the test to help us create our own PK hideaway in a quiet corner of our beautiful PK gardens.

Something fishy is going on with our everyday single-use plastics, so join us as we get creative and give plastic bags a second life

Join us for an action-packed Easter with a diverse range of engaging and family-friendly activities to enjoy.

Learn all about the secret underground network of the Wood Wide Web and explore a variety of crafts to create a fungi installation in our learning space.

British Science Week is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths, discover how you can take part and celebrate at PK!

PK Porthcurno is taking part in The National Lottery Open Week, to say a huge thanks to #NationalLottery players for their support. #ThanksToYo Between 9-17 March 2024, we’ll be offering half-price admission to visitors who show a National Lottery ticket or scratch card to our friendly staff at the front desk. One National Lottery ticket

Join us for an exciting October half term with a diverse range of engaging and family-friendly activities to enjoy.

Explore the magic of electricity with fruit batteries and see if you can create your musical masterpiece with our fruit piano! 

🎄 Scroll Down & discover what’s on this Christmas at PK Pothcurno ⬇️ Cosy Winter Room Take a break in our cosy Winter Room for children’s activities, write a PK Christmas wish for the year ahead and create your own winter landscapes on our magnetic walls! Poppy the Bus Poppy, our 1950s mobile telegraph station,

Create your own enchanting Midwinter light-up mask while delving into the fascinating world of the Valley's nocturnal creatures.

Join us for an exciting October half term with a diverse range of engaging and family-friendly activities to enjoy.

Come and be a part of our bug hotel construction project, designed to offer a cozy winter retreat for the smallest inhabitants of PK. Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of these tiny creatures and discover what types of insects will make our bug hotel home.

PK Porthcurno will be attending the EXPO Ertach Kernow | Cornwall Heritage Expo on Friday 29 September at Godolphin Count House.

Explore various topics and engage in hands-on activities that promise excitement and experimentation, there's something for everyone.

Join us in crafting your very own friendly moth trap to embark on an exciting adventure of local moth exploration!

Join us for an exciting Summer adventure with a diverse range of engaging and family-friendly activities to enjoy.

nleash your creativity and join us in crafting impactful artwork with a powerful message. Together, let's inspire our visitors to make a positive impact on the environment by reducing harm and responsibly disposing of their rubbish..

Discover our range of free events and activities over the May half term. Join us for our pop-up PK Mini Beasts activity and more!

Create a kinetic sculpture out of recycled materials to display in the PK Champions Garden and help to protect plants. Come see how the PK Champions Garden is growing and learn about plant care.

Join us at PK Porthcurno for a fun & educational gardening experience! Learn about the importance of the germination process and pollinators.

For this May Half Term in Pop-up Planet PK: Make a Mini Beast, create some mini critters to populate a wild garden of handmade flowers or get creative with finger paint and coloured paper to make 2D bugs.

Join PK Porthcurno staff and local residents for an autumn clean-up of the beautiful beach here at Porthcurno.

British Science Week is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths, discover how you can take part and celebrate at PK!

Dive into the depths of the ocean and discover what lies beneath with our latest Planet PK Champions Session!

Discover our range of free events and activities over the Easter holidays. Join us for craft events, Mini PK tours and more!

Discover our range of free events and activities over the February half term. Join us for Mini PK tours and more!

Communicating with light: Discover how a light sensor works and build electrical circuits powered by solar energy.

Based on images from the PK archive, make your own turtle yarn image or sea creature fingerprint, and personalise your work using an assortment of colourful tissue paper, sand and more

Vote for our Green Turtle Hatchling in the Cornwall Heritage Awards 'Object of the Year' Cornwall Heritage Awards this year.

Discover our range of free events and activities over the Christmas period from paper chains to Christmas presents and more!

To celebrate Museum Shop Sunday PK is offering a special promotion, save yourself a whopping 25% off admission, Museum and online shop!

Explore old ways of writing including feather quills and an old-fashioned typewriter to compose your own positive climate message.

Go on your very own adventure and complete the activity sheet. Collect the Mega Museum Challenge from the front desk.

Spread your wings and design a vibrant messenger bird to fly home with you. Inspired by PK’s archive photographs of Birds.

Join PK Porthcurno staff and local residents for an autumn clean-up of the beautiful beach here at Porthcurno.

Discover a whole host of activities in and around the October Half-Term. Starting from the 17th of October to the 25th.

Explore our museum with Paul, our Learning Facilitator at PK, and find out how telegraphy impacted our environment.

Porthcurno’s beauty makes it one of the most popular beaches for visitors in Cornwall, unfortunately, it can also be one of the worst affected by littering, particularly after busy bank holiday weekends!

Discover a whole host of activities over the summer holidays at PK Porthcurno. Starting from the 30th July all the way to 25th August.

Planet PK Champions is our environmental sessions for children. Create a bee hotel to hang in your garden and more...

What's on at PK Porthcurno for the May half term? Meet morgy the giant squid who has made PK his home and create some friends for him!

TECgirls aims to inspire the next generation of coders, engineers, video game designers, app developers, and digital artists in Cornwall.

Inspired by the interactive giant squid by artists Morodavaga, join us to make a vibrant squid windsock out of coloured paper, card and streamers. Learn Morse Code and write a secret message on your squid’s tentacles.

Introducing Planet PK Champions - our new environmental sessions for children. Join us to learn about the future of solar energy by building a solar-powered electronic circuit.

Easter activities for the whole family to enjoy!

Join us for a Planet PK Beach Clean on Porthcurno beach & write inspiring climate messages to encourage people not to litter our beach.

Join us for a Planet PK Pop Up activity this Easter. Inspired by our environmental programme make a colourful Easter branch to display at home. 

British Science Week is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths.

Our STEAM Explorers sessions are back! 7 to 12 year-olds can join our free ‘STEAM Explorers’ sessions, a morning of hands-on making activities that explore the realms of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths.

oin us for our Porthcurno Million Mile Beach Clean. We will be meeting on the beach at 9:00am on Wednesday 2nd March. All are welcome!

Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 February - Join us for Pop Up PK half-term fun this February. Inspired by the communication maps in the PK collection, learn how to paint onto silk fabric. Choose from a variety of vibrant colours to design your own map.

For our Kids In Museums Takeover Day students from Exeter University, took over our engagement team and delivered a climate themed workshop for King Charles Primary School in Falmouth.

Planet PK is pleased to be teaming up with our friends at National Trust for special collaborative Christmas Beach Clean at Porthcurno.

We are excited to join over 1,600 cultural attractions worldwide on 28 November 2021 to celebrate Cultural Enterprises brilliant Museum Shop Sunday initiative. It’s never been more important to highlight the vital role of retail in helping arts, cultural and heritage venues to survive and thrive. Museum Shop Sunday is a fantastic opportunity to do just that!

Planet PK is pleased to be teaming up with our friends at Cornwall AONB) for another collaborative Beach Clean at Porthcurno.