Carbis Bay Holidays :: St Ives Art and Culture
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Tate Gallery
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Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden
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Bernard Leach Pottery
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St Ives museum
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Wayside Museum Zennor
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St Ives is a world famous art centre. the renowned Tate Gallery and Barbara Hepworth Museum has a worldwide reputation. With many art galleries and studios, exhibiting work from local artists, the following are a selection but you will find many more hidden away amongst the cobbled streets of St Ives.
The Art Pass offers visitors a unique opportunity to enjoy amazing architecture and views, local and international art, historic and contemporary work on display at six outstanding venues across West Cornwall. For the first time Tate St Ives, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Leach Pottery, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, and Newlyn Art Gallery & the Exchange have worked together to help visitors get more out of Penwith's rich artistic offering.
The Art Pass costs £12 (concessions £7), and gives the cardholder unlimited access to Tate St Ives, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Leach Pottery and Penlee House Gallery & Museum for a seven day period. Although Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange are free to visit, cardholders receive a 10% discount in both of their shops.
The Art Pass will be available from all the organisations taking part in the initiative.
Tate Gallery
The Tate Gallery was opened in 1993 and is one of St Ives leading attractions. boasting a fantastic display of art created in and associated with Cornwall. Open year round, there is a gift shop and refreshments are available in the café, spectacular views over the old town of St Ives and Porthmeor Beach.
Visit www.tate.org.uk/stives/ for opening times, admission prices and concessions.
Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum until her death in 1975. The Sculpture Gardens and Museum offer a remarkable insight into her work. Sculptures in bronze, stone and wood are on display along with paintings, drawings and archive material.
Visit www.tate.org.uk/stives/hepworth/ for more information.
Bernard Leach Museum
The museum dedicated to the life's work of Bernard Leach who settled in St Ives in 1920 bringing with him the skills of pottery and ceramics from his experiences in Japan. His influence on the many students who studied under him, together with his own pieces are illustrated in the museum. On the Penzance road leaving St Ives towards on the B3306.
Visit www.leachpottery.com for more information.
St Ives Museum
An old-fashioned traditional museum that relates to the life and times of St Ives. Collections include: art - paintings by the early artists of St Ives, blacksmith, boat-building, hand-printed silk and linens, children's toys, ceramics, crafts and tools, Cornish kitchen, farming, fishing, geology, Hain Steamship Company, lifeboat, mining, St Ives railway branch line, Victoriana clothes, and unique photographs. Between Porthgwidden beach and the end of Smeatons Pier at Wheal Dream.
Wayside Museum Zennor
A large collection of relics representing Zennor and West Penwith from 3000 BC to the 1950s. A listed watermill, a miller's kitchen, a cobbler's shop, areas devoted to wheelwright's and blacksmith's work and others relating to mining, agriculture, archaeology, the Zennor School, domestic life and the people of past Zennor. Also tea rooms. Adjacent to the Museum is Zennor Church, where the legend of the "Mermaid of Zennor" continues to fascinate all visitors.
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