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…
Planet PK Champions: Communicating with Light
Communicating with light: Discover how a light sensor works and build electrical circuits powered by solar energy.
Planet PK Champions: Protecting our Oceans
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
Planet PK Champions: A Message to the Future 🌎
Explore old ways of writing including feather quills and an old-fashioned typewriter to compose your own positive climate message.
The Tom Gates MEGA MUSEUM CHALLENGE
Go on your very own adventure and complete the activity sheet. Collect the Mega Museum Challenge from the front desk.
Planet PK Champions: Bird Island
Spread your wings and design a vibrant messenger bird to fly home with you. Inspired by PK’s archive photographs of Birds.
Planet PK October Beach Clean
Join PK Porthcurno staff and local residents for an autumn clean-up of the beautiful beach here at Porthcurno.
Planet PK Pop-up Mini PK Tours
Explore our museum with Paul, our Learning Facilitator at PK, and find out how telegraphy impacted our environment.
Planet PK Pop-up Mini PK Tours
Make an origami bat and learn how bats find their wayHow far can you jump whilst learning about the animals in Porthcurno Valley?
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.
Planet PK Pop-up Footprints in the sand & Animal long jump
Make an origami bat and learn how bats find their wayHow far can you jump whilst learning about the animals in Porthcurno Valley?
Planet PK Champions: Echoing Bats 🦇
Make an origami bat and learn how bats find their way around using sound waves. During the activity, you will have a chance to visit our Bat exhibition in the Bunker.