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Corwen Museum – Amgueddfa Corwen Museum http://www.corwenmuseum.org.uk Corwen Museum | Amgueddfa Corwen Fri, 19 May 2023 14:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 Eisteddfod Powys Exhibition at Corwen Museum /eisteddfod-powys-exhibition-at-corwen-museum/ Fri, 19 May 2023 14:00:20 +0000 /?p=930 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 the Cadwyn Clwyd LEADER Fund.

The Exhibition will run until the end of October 2023 and the Powys Eisteddfod is being held in Bala on the 27th and 28th October.

]]> 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.

 

]]> We are celebrating St David’s Day by moving Corwen Museum outside /we-are-celebrating-st-davids-day-by-moving-corwen-museum-outside/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:33:34 +0000 /?p=802

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.

]]> Corwen Museum Facebook Diary 7th -14th May /corwen-museum-facebook-diary-7th-14th-may/ Thu, 14 May 2020 15:03:36 +0000 /?p=698 We remember our soldiers and civilians who died serving in the 2nd World War and are named on our eight war memorials. 

The new Corwen Museum Exhibition ‘Artists and Authors with a Connection to Edeyrnion’ is featured.  We are hoping that the Museum will be able to re-open soon so that visitors can see this and our other new exhibition on the WW2 Evacuees to Corwen.

The 2018 Ysgol Caer Drewyn Video ‘Ghosts of Corwen’ is shown.

We show the Corwen Constitutional Club Billiards medal and its links with a soldier who died in WW1.

There are items about Rhug and Pale Hall.

Follow the link to our Facebook page.

]]> Dates for your diaries /dates-for-your-diaries/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:41:10 +0000 /?p=645

Thursday 13th February 2020  6.30 pm  AGM followed by a talk from Paul Davies on Thomas Pennant and his Tours of Wales.  All are welcome.  If you are not a member you will not be able to speak or vote at the AGM but why not join?  It is only £6 per year and you will have a say in the future of the Museum. 

Thursday 27th February 2020  7.00 pm.   A Preview Evening for all our volunteers to see what has changed in the Museum for 2020. Lindsay is also going to give a short talk on her three months in Tanzania last year. 


Saturday 29th February and 1st March 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. The Museum will open with a special Open Weekend.  We are having a local schoolchildren’s painting competition and we are inviting the children  to bring in their paintings of a local landscape over the weekend and they will be displayed. 


Tuesday 10th March   7.00 pm.  Talk by Pat Quigley of the Powys Society on John Cowper Powys and his association with Corwen.  Venue to be arranged.  

Saturday 21st March  2.00-4.30pm.  Special afternoon when the prizes will be given to the winners of the Schools Painting Competition.  Fiona Collins will also be doing story telling in the afternoon in the Museum.  All small and large children welcome!


Wednesday 22nd April  7.00 pm.  A talk on the work of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and their project on the Picturesque Landscape.


All events will be at Corwen Museum apart from the Cowper Powys talk on 10th March and we are in the process of arranging the venue for this.  All are welcome and there is no admission charge.  There will be raffles at the talks and donations are always welcome.  
PLEASE NOTE THAT ACCESS TO THE MUSEUM OUTSIDE OPENING TIMES IS BY THE REAR DOOR.

]]> Come and see the past! Anderson Shelter in Corwen Museum! /come-and-see-the-past-anderson-shelter-in-corwen-museum/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:01:58 +0000 /?p=597 On September 1st this year we mark the beginning of World War 2 in 1939.  Here in North Wales it was a fine, sunny morning, but the future was to be far from sunny. Often people had to hide away from bomb blasts in specially constructed underground shelters, half buried in the ground with earth heaped on top.  Sometimes built in peoples’ back gardens, and named after their designer, they were known as ‘Anderson Shelters’.

They were made from six corrugated iron sheets bolted together at the top, with steel plates at either end, and measured 6ft 6in by 4ft 6in. They were very effective at saving lives and preventing major injuries during air raids, but they were really cold during the winter months. Designed for six people, they were free to those with an annual income of less than £250, (The average salary at that time was £200.) For those who didn’t fall into this category, the price was £7.  

Come and see our reconstructed Anderson Shelter at Corwen Museum. Set in the old red brick chapel on the A5 in Corwen, our opening times are 11.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Do come and see the small space, hear the war time radio news broadcasts and popular music. Then stay a while to see the model railway and the other treasures we have!       

]]> 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. 

]]> Trip to see Bronze Age Spearhead found in Corwen /trip-to-see-bronze-age-spearhead-found-in-corwen/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:06:43 +0000 /?p=401

On Friday 20th October, a group of volunteers from Corwen Museum went to Storiel Bangor to see a bronze spearhead that had been found at Plas yn Ddol, Corwen, in the 1980s and was given to Bangor Museum for safekeeping.

It was fascinating to look at an object that was used for hunting for food 3500 years ago in the forests around Corwen, and we were all very excited. 

We want to be able to bring this piece of our history back to Corwen Museum but will need to become an accredited museum first, which will take some time.  In the meanwhile, we have photographs and a wonderful story of how the spearhead was found, lost and found again by a sharp-eyed and inquisitive ten year old boy.

]]> 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!

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