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International Women’s Day is 8th March each year. This is the opportunity for us to consider the contribution to the public life of a woman who had an enormous influence on the Aberdare [...]

Important Notice to the Public   Cynon Valley Museum will be closed to the public on 18/02/2022 following the weather warnings issued by The Met Office. A red level warning anticipates winds [...]

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! Cynon Valley Museum, in partnership with the Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council Community Cohesion Team, is delighted to be hosting an LGBTQ+ History Month event [...]

Cynon Valley Museum is delighted to be launching ‘Cynon Valley Museum Winter Art Club’ in partnership with RCT Arts and Creative Industries, as part of the Winter of Wellbeing. These [...]

The Museum collection displays boxing gloves, robe, tickets and memorabilia relating to Abercynon born boxing legend Dai Dower M.B.E, tangible objects tunnelling you back to a seemingly black and [...]

Happy New Year! We’re so happy to be open to the public again, and we’re starting off 2022 with a fantastic new art exhibition in our Lower Gallery! ‘Lost Edges’ by Neil [...]

Women in the Mines Many people today can recall what the valleys were like in the 1960s, 70s and 80s when mining and steelworks were dominant. Roads were busy with lorries, the railways were in [...]

This year, for Inter Faith Week 2021, Cynon Valley Museum and Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council Community Cohesion Team held a day event on Saturday 20th November 2021 at the museum. What [...]

LLYN FAWR and LLYN FACH Llyn Fawr, and the smaller Llyn Fach, are natural lakes situated below Craig Y Llyn (Rhigos Mountain) at the North-West end of the Rhondda Cynon Taff area. Humans [...]

This year Cynon Valley Museum, in partnership with the RCTCBC Inclusion and Diversity Team, is participating in Trans Awareness Week, to help raise the visibility of transgender people and [...]

The Work of Paul Peter Piech – a lesson for all The museum boasts a large collection of linocut prints by artist Paul Peter Piech, including a small collection of ‘Racism is a [...]

Cynon Valley Museum Trust is pleased to announce that the museum will be extending its opening hours to include Tuesdays. This is another important step in the museum’s reopening phase since the [...]

The connection between Paul Robeson, the Cwmbach Male Choir, and the South Wales NUM I first discovered the inspirational figure of Paul Robeson thanks to the Manic Street Preachers 2001 single [...]

When looking down from Penrhiwllech Trail, above the lake at the Dare Valley Park, you will see a field with a large hut, in front of a row of houses. This field was the site of the 1936 Quoits [...]

A marble bust, the face stern and uncompromising, yet of lonely countenance, looks out from the public health display case in the museum’s gallery. The bust’s true to life likeness is that of [...]

I look at you what’s real what’s not Your hair your teeth your smile, your lot Do you care, do I care, does it matter at all What’s real what’s not U glance we stare look at you what’s real [...]

Music at the Museum with Phase Arts Collective Join musicians Rachael Elliot and Beatrice Newman, known as Phase Arts Collective, for live musical performances throughout July and August, hosted [...]

The museum collection includes interesting objects that are today as unfamiliar and unrecognisable to the younger generation as a farthingale. Some of these items include a magic lantern, a [...]

From White House, Washington to Council House, Mountain Ash With changes in the US Presidency this year, the White House has been very much in the centre of world politics. Built between 1792 and [...]