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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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.
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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.
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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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