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amgueddfa – Amgueddfa Corwen Museum http://www.corwenmuseum.org.uk Corwen Museum | Amgueddfa Corwen Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:34:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 The Museum will re-open on Saturday 16th April /the-museum-will-re-open-on-saturday-16th-april/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:04:05 +0000 /?p=866 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.

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.

 

]]> Trips made by our volunteers /trips-made-by-our-volunteers/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:59:11 +0000 /?p=481 17th July 2018

 

 

Our trip on 17th July was to the home of the Welsh Poet, Hedd Wyn, at Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd.  This place is really special and we were very moved to see the “Cadair Ddu”, the Birkenhead National Eisteddfod Chair that Hedd Wyn won posthumously in 1917 only a few weeks after his death at Passchendaele.  We were also moved by the photographs of the other young men from Trawsfynydd who died during the First World War.  We have done a similar project around the young men of Edeyrnion who are remembered on our War Memorials, some of whom would have known and maybe have served with Hedd Wyn in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

 

21st June 2018

 

 

A group of our volunteers visited the Ironworks at Bersham, Wrexham, followed by a tour of the North East Wales 100 Objects Exhibition at Wrexham Museum and the Wrexham Archives.  The day was a great success and we came back with a better understanding of the process of iron manufacture and the natural elements found in that locality that made Bersham so successful.  The Archivist at Wrexham Museum gave us a lot of useful information about how we should be protecting the records and photographs in our collection and we will be putting this into practice.  Everyone enjoyed the 100 Objects Exhibition which included a Corwen Eisteddfod Chair and Llangollen Railway headboard from our collection.

]]> Spectacular World War 1 Weekend 24th and 25th February 2018 /spectacular-world-war-1-weekend-24th-and-25th-february-2018/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:26:57 +0000 /?p=424

Corwen Museum re-opens on Saturday February 24th with a spectacular Open Weekend full of displays and activities based on the First World War.  Come and see the army camp and taste the food they ate.   Find out about the weapons they used and the uniforms they wore.  The Exhibition runs on the Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm.  There is free admission.

 

Inside the Museum there will be a special poppy installation created by the Corwen Youth Club, with 145 poppies to commemorate the 144 men and 1 woman who are named on the Edeyrnion War Memorials.  Books of Remembrance will also be displayed along with our new Exhibition on how Corwen and its villages helped the war effort. There will be a reconstructed trench, with officer’s dugout and hospital field station.  We are grateful for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to enable us to put on these displays.

The Museum is also celebrating the Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), with the beautiful work of renowned stained glass designer, Alf Fisher, displayed in our lovely chapel windows.  They will be amazing.

This is a weekend not to be missed!

]]> Lest we forget our young men of Edeyrnion who fell in the Great War /lest-we-forget-our-young-men-of-edeyrnion-who-fell-in-the-great-war/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:48:42 +0000 /?p=412 We hope you will come to see the Books of Remembrance in the Museum and  pay your respects to the 144 young men and 1 woman who are named on our War Memorials in Edeyrnion.  We are also hoping that some of you will have more information about these people – are they related to you?  Do you have stories, letters, photographs or artefacts to do with their time as soldiers?  We would love to hear from you. 

]]> Our Model Railway is having a facelift /our-model-railway-is-having-a-facelift/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:42:54 +0000 /?p=396  

 

Nick Collins is working every Wednesday to bring our Model Railway of the line from Berwyn Station to Glyndyfrdwy back into pristine condition.  Come and see him at work.

Are you interested in volunteering at the Museum?  As well as stewards, we have volunteers building displays, researching specialist subjects for our exhibitions, scanning and editing old photographs and maintaining our register of artefacts.  Call into the Museum and leave your contact details or send a message on the website’s Contact Page.  We would love to hear from you!

]]> Have you seen our farming exhibition? /have-you-seen-our-farming-exhibition/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:51:24 +0000 /?p=390

We have a fantastic exhibition on until November of farming and rural life in Edeyrnion and Denbighshire, including the “Farming Memories” Exhibition produced by Menter Iaith.  It is well worth seeing and will bring back memories to many people who have been involved in farming over the years.

]]> Have you seen our windows? /have-you-seen-our-windows/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:23:19 +0000 /?p=367 The Pilgrim in our photograph is one of six travellers through time who have journeyed to Corwen and are now depicted in our lovely chapel windows.  Renowned stained glass designer, Alfred Fisher, has designed the windows, using vinyl rather than glass, to produce an effect that allows the natural light through, without losing the lovely lines of the figures.  Join these travellers to Corwen and visit the Museum to meet these  individuals and read their stories.Window 4 The Pilgrim

]]> We have won Heritage Lottery Support! /we-have-won-heritage-lottery-support/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:16:45 +0000 http://www.canedeyrnion.org.uk/?p=329 We have today received £7900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), part of which will fund two exciting new exhibitions in the Corwen Museum, on the legend of Owain Glyndwr and Corwen – the Crossroads of North Wales.  These displays will tell the story of Corwen and the Edeyrnion area from prehistoric times to the present day, through the eyes and ears of travellers and local people.  The work will be done by volunteers from the local community .and we want to involve as many people as possible in this unique project.

The project will enable local people and visitors to the area alike, to understand how and why the area evolved over time.  It is hoped that the local schools will become involved, giving the children a better understanding of the place where they live.  A Community Memory Board will show photographs of Corwen Life and People since the Second World War, with space for individuals to record their thoughts and memories.  We will also start building a Resource Centre so that photographs and documents from the past and present can be stored for use both now and in the future.   We want the community to become involved in volunteering at the Museum, in research, display building and in stewarding.  We also want the loan or donation of old photographs, documents and artefacts relating to Edeyrnion, to display.  If you think you can help in any way please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

The Museum is closed at present whilst the work is completed, but will re-open on Saturday 18th February.  We are holding a Community Open Day on Saturday 25th February from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm and hope that you will be able to join us.

 

]]> Corwen Museum is up and running! /corwen-museum-is-up-and-running/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.canedeyrnion.org.uk/?p=234 Our Museum is now open in Capel Coch (next to Bargain Booze).  It will be open every day from Saturday March 21st 2015 to Sunday 4th October 2015 and then weekends only during October 2015.   Opening times are 11.00 am to 3.45 pm approximately and admission is free (although donations will be very welcome and will help us to keep the museum going next year.)

If you want to help us with the museum (we are all volunteers) please use the contacts page or talk to the volunteers in the museum.  You will be very welcome.

Our thanks go to the Heritage Lottery Fund which has helped us to finance the exhibitions and to all the volunteers who have worked to set it up and continue to

work as stewards.

 

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]]> Exhibition news /exhibition-news/ Sun, 11 May 2014 11:29:04 +0000 http://www.canedeyrnion.org.uk/?p=156 There have been some very exciting developments regarding the Railway Exhibition. Can Edeyrnion are working with Llangollen Railway Trust and Corwen Railway Society to make the Exhibition a permanent museum, based at Capel Coch in Corwen. This has the full backing of the Heritage Lottery Funders and will open to coincide with the first passenger train to arrive in Corwen – hopefully in July this year. A series of temporary exhibitions will run alongside the permanent exhibits covering all aspects of the heritage and culture of the Edeyrnion area. We are looking for volunteers to help in all aspects of running the exhibitions and invite local groups and organisations to come forward with ideas and support for the temporary displays. We want this to be a museum involving the whole community.

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