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Eisteddfod Powys Exhibition at Corwen Museum

Eisteddfod Powys Exhibition at Corwen Museum

The Eisteddfod Powys is coming back to Edeyrnion and Penllyn in October 2023 and, to promote this, and to celebrate the wonderful relationship there has been between Corwen and the Powys Eisteddfod, we have created a new exhibition telling this story.  We are grateful for funding for the exhibition through more | mwy …
Our 2023 Season opens on Easter Saturday 8th April

Our 2023 Season opens on Easter Saturday 8th April

The Museum re-opens after the Winter break on Saturday 8th April (Easter Saturday) and if you have been before you will notice some changes.  We have kept the popular 'Slate and the Development of Glyndyfrdwy Village' exhibition for a second year and this year we also have the Owain Glyndŵr more | mwy …
The Museum will re-open on Saturday 16th April

The Museum will re-open on Saturday 16th April

The Museum will re-open on Saturday 16th April (Easter Saturday) with a great new Exhibition on Slate and the Making of Glyndyfrdwy Village.    We will be telling the story of the families who earned their living from slate and how the village grew from a scattering of farms more | mwy …

The Museum has now closed for the Winter

The Museum has now closed for our annual Winter work on the production of our new exhibitions for 2022.  Our new themes will be on the story of Glyndyfrdwy, the Moel Fferna Slate Quarry and Mine and the local slate workers.  If you have artefacts, photographs or documents more | mwy …

Our Outside Museum

Our Outside Museum

Come and see our new display on the outside of the Corwen Museum Wall, giving a map and information about the places of interest to see in the beautiful town of Corwen.

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We are celebrating St David’s Day by moving Corwen Museum outside

We have not been able to open the Museum for almost a year now, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  We have therefore worked on a range of interpretation panels telling the story over time more | mwy …

Museum News February 2021

Museum News February 2021

At this time of the year we are usually frantically working on new exhibition themes within the Museum for re-opening after the Winter on St David’s Day.  Unfortunately, we are still not in a position to re-open because of Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus Pandemic and it more | mwy …

Latest News 12th July 2020

Latest News 12th July 2020

Although the Museum is shut, we are still busy working.  We are updating our artefacts database and taking photographs of each artefact in the way recommended by Gruffydd Jones of the Peoples Collection Wales, so that we can upload images and descriptions of our artefacts to the Peoples more | mwy …

Corwen Museum Facebook Diary June 1st -14th

Corwen Museum Facebook Diary June 1st -14th

With time on their hands during lockdown, people have been sorting through drawers and finding old family photographs, which have made them think about their family history, maybe for the first time. We decided, therefore, to post a more | mwy …

A Big Thankyou

We have been told by Denbighshire County Council that our free rental period has been extended until the end of June is a great relief. We have also received a donation of £560 from 'Making a Difference Locally', the charity launched by Nisa Retail Ltd to more | mwy …

We are still busy!

We are still busy!

Although the Museum is not open to visitors volunteers are still working from home doing research on local topics of interest, including the slate quarries, the stories of the Corwen public houses and the history of the Edeyrnion villages.  If you are interested in helping or have any more | mwy …

Schools Painting Competition

Schools Painting Competition

Earlier this year Corwen Museum arranged a Schools Painting Competition for local schools in Edeyrnion, with the help and support of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, through their Picturesque Landscapes Project.  Ysgol Caer Drewyn and Ysgol Carrog children chose to take part and produced some lovely artwork more | mwy …

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