Kresen Kernow (Cornish for Cornwall Centre) in Redruth, United Kingdom is Cornwall's archive centre, home to the world's biggest collection of archive and library material related to Cornwall. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Cornwall Council and opened in 2019, it brings together the collections which were previously held at Cornwall Record Office, the Cornish Studies Library and Cornwall and Scilly Historic Environment Record as well as in various outstores.[1]
Kresen Kernow was the name of the building in Alma Place in which the Cornish Studies Library was formerly held. The new archive centre, which has been constructed on the former Redruth Brewery site in Tolgus Hill, Redruth, has the same name. Kresen Kernow has more than 14 miles of shelving in total which will house around 1.5 million items, including over 100,000 books, 40,000 maps and 220,000 photographs and postcards.[2]
- ^ Cornwall Council. "Kresen Kernow - Cornwall's new archive centre - Cornwall Council". www.cornwall.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ "Progress continues at Cornish National Library & Archive (Kresen Kernow) Redruth, Kernow". Transceltic. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2019.