Easter Weekend Closure 

We just wanted to give you a little advanced warning that The Morrab Library will be closed on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th March for the Easter weekend.  We will reopen at 10am, as usual, on Tuesday 2nd April.

Please pop in during the week to borrow any holiday reading and we wish you all a very happy Easter break.

 Spring Fair 

We’re looking forward to the annual  The Morrab Library Spring Fair on Saturday 6th April – find out more here. 

Room bookings will not be available after 1.00pm on Friday 5th, and all day on the 6th April as we prepare and host our Spring Fair. There will also be no library tour on the 5th. Don’t forget we’d be grateful for any donations of plants and/or cakes for our Fair!

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A rich resource for research, or a place to borrow the latest novel.

The Morrab Library is an independent library established in 1818, situated in the beautiful Morrab Gardens in Penzance, Cornwall. We hold over 70,000 books on floor-to-ceiling shelves as well as archives and a rich photographic collection. The library contains a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction books in the rambling rooms of a delightful Victorian building. The Morrab Library is a registered charity and depends on the support and generosity of our library community.

We are open Tuesday – Saturday 10am-4pm.

01736 364474 | enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk

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Help Us Create Our Penwith Futures Book

  Over the past year you may have seen our Penwith Futures Book postcards and posters in the library and while you’re out and about. We really hope you’ve pinned them to your noticeboard, popped them on the fridge or tucked them inside your bedtime reading as...

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Mrs Borlase’s ‘minced Pyes’

Charlotte MacKenzie is currently researching Cornish legends and historical individuals, including healthcare and folk customs in Georgian Cornwall. She popped into the Morrab Library in the autumn to use our Archive for some of her research. Along the way, she...

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If there is an afterlife, I very much hope that those good enough in this one might be rewarded with an exact replica of the Morrab Library – to sit out eternity browsing its shelves, reading in its chairs, and looking out of its high windows.

Philip Marsden

If you like books, if you like history, if you like beautiful houses, if you like hidden treasures, if you like people, if you like peace, you will LOVE Morrab. In fact, if you are alive, you will love it there.

Dawn French

Whether you’re an impassioned bibliophile or just someone who loves a good read, the Morrab is for you: a Cornish treasure house, a meeting place for like-minded souls, and a vibrant forum for contemporary writing.

John le Carré