There is a dedicated children’s area where children can dress up as one of Owain Glyndŵr’s soldiers and/or design their own coat of arms. There is also a children’s model railway to play with upstairs whilst admiring the ‘more adult’ model railway of the line from Berwyn to Carrog Stations.
There is no admission charge but we appreciate donations to keep us going.
We look forward to seeing you Monday to Friday 12.00 to 3.00 pm and Saturday/Sunday 11.00 am to 4.00 pm.
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Opening times will be:-
Monday to Friday 12.00 – 15.00
Saturday and Sunday 11.00 – 16.00
There is no admission charge but donations are always welcome.
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 and smallholdings. As part of the display our volunteers are building a replica slate mine with sound and light to give a fully immersive experience.
Opening times will be:-
Monday to Friday 12.00 – 15.00
Saturday and Sunday 11.00 – 16.00
There is no admission charge but donations are always welcome.
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The Aim website describes the project as below:
The project will share the origin story of the village of Glyndyfrdwy through a range of immersive experiences and events that will tell stories, past and present, and cultivate a new audience for Corwen Museum and local communities. The project will shine a light on the lesser-known heritage of the Moel Fferna quarry and how workers and families transformed a landscape, formed a community of interesting characters and will ask what we might learn from this story today.
The project will be based in the museum at Corwen, opening Easter Saturday 16th April 2022, and also outside at Glyndyfrdwy where an audio trail, available on mobile phones, will guide people on a walk up the valley to various sites of the former slate workings. We are delighted to be working with the Glyndyfrdwy WI and the Village Hall Committee to bring the various threads of this project together.
At present we are researching the stories of the slate workings, the slateworkers and the community of Glyndyfrdwy. If you are interested in helping as a volunteer with this or the design and building of the exhibitions we would love to hear from you. Go to the Contacts page and leave a message.
In order to comply with Covid-19 regulations masks must be worn inside the Museum and hands sanitised before entry and on exit. Only the downstairs exhibitions will be open. Household groups will access the Museum one group at a time, with 15 minutes allowed to look at the Exhibitions.
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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 of the Edeyrnion area and have installed these on the side wall of Canolfan Ni, which is the Community Centre opposite the Museum. The project has been completed in time for St David’s Day. The exciting new display brightens up a drab wall and gives bitesize pieces of the story of Edeyrnion to whet people’s appetites to learn more. We hope you will come and see them.
We are now working on boards for the Museum wall opposite, that will give information about the buildings and sites that can be seen from this part of Corwen. We hope that visitors will be encouraged to explore the town and to enjoy the beauty of its setting.
We have nine volunteers working on research, photography, editing and translation and we are very grateful for the time they are giving to this exciting new development for Corwen Museum.
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This has not stopped us from meeting our aim of telling the public about the stories of Edeyrnion and we have been very busy, with shop window displays before Christmas, bringing the Christmas Story and the Pantomime to Corwen, and an ongoing display in the empty butcher’s shop window about the past history of Bridge Street told in photographs.
We are also working on an Edeyrnion Timeline to be displayed on the side wall of Canolfan Ni. Eight volunteers have been involved in research, photography, writing, translation and editing to produce an exhibition that will be installed in time for St David’s Day. So, this year our Museum moves outside!
We are also still adding to our artefacts and we were delighted to obtain a superb sampler made by a child in Cynwyd school in 1838.
Our Facebook page, written by Laura Watkins, has new postings every day on all sorts of subjects about the Edeyrnion area. From this page we are gathering photographs and stories from local people re-telling tales from the past and this will be a wonderful resource for the Museum. There are now over 1000 people following the page. Are you one of them?
Our Chairman, Jim Ritchie, has started to produce a monthly newsletter, primarily for our volunteers, but also for anyone with an interest in the Museum. If you would like a copy emailed to you use the Contact Page to make the request. We would also like to hear from you if you would be interested in volunteering with us. Maybe you would like to help with our next project – a series of boards on the side wall of the Museum telling the story of this area of Corwen that can be seen from the flagstaff on Pen-y-Pigyn. We look forward to hearing from you.
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