Falmouth Art College is now properly known as "University College Falmouth, incorporating Dartington College of the Arts", but its proud heritage dates right back to the foundation of the The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1870, by Miss Anna Maria Fox.
Falmouth School of Art opened in 1902, and developed a fine reputation as one of Cornwall's leading academic institutions with courses based around fine art and drawing, but did not move to its current Wood land campus until 1950. In the 1990s Falmouth School of Art & Design became Falmouth College of Arts, and at teh end of that decade Tacita Dean, a former Fine Art graduate at Falmouth, was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
The College also acquired its Tremough campus at this time, and set about building the state of the art media centre near to the old convent buildings on the Tremough site.
Development at Tremough has accelerated due in part to government and EEC regeneration initiatives, and in 2003 the new £50 million design centre opened at Tremough - and the partnership with Exeter University came under the structure of the CUC - the Combined Universities of Cornwall.
For further information please see our page: University College Falmouth.
A more detailed history of the Falmouth Art College and its evolution into University College Falmouth can be found here: History
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