📆 Thursday 23 October ⏰ From 11:00 Join Dr. Shini Somara — multi-award-winning broadcaster, Executive Media Producer, children’s author and Fellow of the IMechE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers) — as she uncovers the remarkable stories of women engineers in WW2. Their surprising and ingenious contributions not only shaped wartime communications but continue to influence how
PK Porthcurno Archive Secures Further Funding
PK Porthcurno has been successful in its application to the Archives Resilience Grant, a new fund run by The National Archives.
Welcome to the Team, Mae!
We’re excited to introduce our newest team member Mae Voogd! She has joined our team as the Learning and Participation Facilitator.
In Loving Memory of Albert Lorens
Many will remember with great fondness Albert Lorens, who sadly passed away in early January at the age of 101. Albert had been a valued volunteer at Porthcurno since the early days of the museum and was always happy maintaining our working machinery.
‘A Message to PK Porthcurno’ – The Cornish Caretakers
PK Porthcurno’s second schools tour of our Cornish Caretakers show ‘A Message to PK Porthcurno’ has just finished and we have a brilliant new blog by Emily Harrison who starred alongside Edward Rowe (Kernow King) in this unique story of global communications…
PK Porthcurno Shortlisted for National Family Friendly Award
Charity Kids in Museums has run a prestigious annual award for 16 years, recognising the most family-friendly heritage sites in the UK.
PK Bubbles and Morse code go back to the future at Golowan
Last Sunday we had a wonderful time delivering Pop-up activities at Golowan. We met lots of lovely people who enjoyed our offerings.
GCHQ Let it Snow
Any newcomer to CSOS Bude is told that snow is a sort of English disease which would never dare to cross the Tamar and invade Cornwall, and it is true that Bude does enjoy its own peculiar climate. Whether anyone else enjoys it is a moot point – it is particularly subject to high winds
GCHQ: Watcher of the Skies
PK Porthcurno, Museum of Global Communications has partnered with intelligence, cyber and security agency GCHQ for a new exhibition called ‘Watcher of the Skies’ which tells the fascinating story of a secret communications site on an exposed Cornish headland.
The Cornish Caretakers
Ed Rowe, the Kernow King, shares his experiences of bringing our Cornish Caretakers show to schools and classrooms around Cornwall.
Oral Histories on PKOC
The archive at PK holds histories collected from those connected with C&W available to listen to online through the PK Online Collection.
Telegraphy in West-Africa
Annabelle Garfield, Masters student at Exeter Uni explores a photo album from our PK archives about African Telegraphy throughout the 1900’s