News & updates

Get your pens and pencils ready! Big Draw is back! As part of the Big Draw Festival 2020 we are this October, asking you to send postcards to the museum. Design your own postcard showing your [...]

The Cynon Valley Museum has made the difficult decision to postpone its reopening to help ensure the safety of the public, volunteers and staff. We have made this decision based on recent [...]

The Cynon Valley Museum Trust has set a proposed opening date for the museum for Saturday 19th September, marking an important point in the museum’s journey towards reopening.   Reopening [...]

Its time to sign up and join Cynon Valley Museum in bringing history and art to your home! Join us over the next 8 weeks as we talk about local history, art and much more! Each week we will be [...]

Outdoors Indoors celebrates Wales a “country opulent in dramatic backgrounds, glorious seascapes and beautiful countryside that demonstrates an extensive diversity covering forests, [...]

Cynon Valley Museum is bringing history and art to your home! Join us over the next 8 weeks as we talk about local history, art and much more! Each week we will be joined by a guest speaker. They [...]

From campaigning to reopen the museum to embedding the museum in our community, volunteers have been essential, and we would like to say thank you to every single volunteer.

Hi, I am Klavdija Erzen and I am the Project Manager for the Jewish History Association of South Wales (JHASW). JHASW was established in January 2018 to preserve the cultural heritage of the [...]

Launching a community memory project This year has tested our community, first by flooding, then by the spread of the Coronavirus. Our lives have changed and they may never be the same again. [...]

The Cynon Valley Museum is delighted to bring to the museum “Worship” by Rach Wellbeing. This exhibition funded by Arts Council Wales, explores our relationship with the concept of [...]

On 28th January 2020, the Cynon Valley Museum Trust was proud to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. The Cynon Valley Museum worked [...]

This week is Trustees Week! #TrusteesWeek #WythnosYrYmddiriedolwyr The Cynon Valley Museum is run by a Board of Trustees who volunteer their time to contribute to the legal compliance, long-term [...]

We invite you to the launch of the Sunflower Lanyard Scheme at Cynon Valley Museum Hidden disabilities can affect anyone, maybe yourself, someone in your family or someone you know and care [...]

The Cynon Valley Museum Trust is delighted to share that they have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Welsh Charity Awards 2019 in the category of ‘Thriving Charity’. The inaugural year of the [...]