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Peoples Collection Wales – Amgueddfa Corwen Museum http://www.corwenmuseum.org.uk Corwen Museum | Amgueddfa Corwen Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:04:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 Latest News 12th July 2020 /latest-news-12th-july-2020/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:25:23 +0000 /?p=762 Although the Museum is shut, we are still busy working.  We are updating our artefacts database and taking photographs of each artefact in the way recommended by Gruffydd Jones of the Peoples Collection Wales, so that we can upload images and descriptions of our artefacts to the Peoples Collection for the interest of a world-wide audience.

One of the first objects to go on the Peoples Collection will be this medal, made to commemorate the visit by Queen Victoria to Corwen and Bala in 1880. 

We are also looking at ways of moving some of displays out into the town, into shop windows and on to external walls.  This is an exciting new development that will allow the Museum to connect with local people and visitors whilst the building itself is closed. 

The Museum Facebook page has continued to post stories about men and women who worked or fought to help the War effort from 1939 to 1945.  One of these stories was about the Hughes family of Corwen, particularly Robert Hughes, who fought in the First World War and was in the Home Guard in the Second World War, having unsuccessfully, because of his age, tried to enlist as a soldier.  The photograph shows Robert with his family.

Information regarding researching family history continued throughout June. In July we have started to post articles from old local newspapers, particularly looking at adverts put in by local Corwen shops and asking for peoples’ memories of the shopkeepers and the situation of their businesses in the town.  This is important research for a future exhibition.

Please follow the Facebook link for more on these.

]]> Corwen Museum Facebook Diary 16th to 28th May /corwen-museum-facebook-diary-16th-to-28th-may/ Thu, 28 May 2020 17:10:26 +0000 /?p=721 Whilst the Museum is closed, we are sharing items and stories from our collections with our Facebook friends – all 800 of them – and also including some new research.  We are also starting to download digital images onto the Peoples Collection Wales and this will become a great resource for the history and heritage of the Edeyrnion Area, but it will be an ongoing project.  If you would be interested in helping with this, please get in touch through the Contacts page.

Topics mentioned on Facebook in the last couple of weeks include:-

The Mimosa and local people who made the journey to the new Welsh Colony in the Chubut Valley of Patagonia.

A celebration of local carnivals over the years since 1939.

Photos of the old Corwen cinemas.

The story of Gwyddelwern Railway Station

Queen Victoria’s visit to North Wales in 1889.

Every day from 75 years since VE Day to 75 years since VJ Day we are remembering a person named on our Edeyrnion War Memorials who died in the 2nd World War. 

For more information about any of these topics follow the link to our Facebook page.

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