Corwen history – Amgueddfa Corwen Museum

Spectacular World War 1 Weekend 24th and 25th February 2018

Corwen Museum — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:26:57 +0000

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

Corwen Museum — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:48:42 +0000

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.

Corwen Museum welcomes you in this ‘Year of Legends’

Corwen Museum — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:57:07 +0000

Come and find out about Owain Glyndwr, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, who owned land throughout the Edeyrnion area during the late 1300s and who had a magnificent estate at Glyndyfrdwy. Find out why Prince Henry (later to be Henry V of England) destroyed this estate and devastated the Corwen area in 1403.

Have you seen our windows?

Corwen Museum — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:23:19 +0000

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