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ON THIS WEEKEND! Please come visit the Spring Craft Fair hosted by Pengwyn Fairs at the Cynon Valley museum. Here you’ll find a wide variety of creative mediums (some of which are edible) [...]

    Women and the Valleys Exhibition is now on in the Cynon Valley Museum, until the 28th of March. See a wide variety of stunning artwork from women artists in the Lower Gallery, many [...]

Are you an Artist from South Wales? We are hosting a Community Showcase Art Exhibition, to celebrate and uplift local artwork. Please do reach out if you’re interested!🎨 📱 – 01685 [...]

Cynon Valley History Society are hosting a lecture next Thursday, on the ‘British Army of the Rhine in WW1’. FREE Entry and ALL welcome! 🎖️

Principality Food Bank has kindly sent us another round of donations! Please feel free to come in and take what you need💖

WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT – Take a look at the crisp, beautiful illustrations of birds courtesy of Beth Holloway 🕊️🐦

  NEXT THURSDAY: Glamorgan Family History Society Branch Meeting 12 February, 2–4pm at Cynon Valley Museum Interested in local or family history? Join us to start your research, get help [...]

Here’s what lies ahead for February in the Cynon Valley Museum! All new weekly events as well as workshops and activities. We hope to see you there! Bilingual welsh version soon to be uploaded!

Black History Cymru 365 is being hosted at the Cynon Valley Museum on Saturday the 21st of February. A Family Event where all are welcome for FREE. You can experience live music, spoken word [...]

We’ve received these very kind donations from The Shed in Aberdare for our board games social this Friday at the CVM from 10am to 1pm! We hope to see you then!

Starting on Saturday the 14th of February, we are hosting the ‘Tangled Narratives and Other Narratives’ Exhibition on our main gallery!

Make Space in your calendars! On the 14th, the first Saturday of February Half Term, Jerzy Jones is reading his kids book, ‘Where do Snowmen Go?’ followed by an Arts & Crafts [...]

Next Friday, the 23rd of January, we will be hosting a Drop-in Board Games social. All are welcome, so feel free to pop in, get a cuppa from our Tearooom and and play some classic board games. [...]

📢 On the 13th of March, the Museum is hosting a new Music, Spoken Word and Visual Show Exploring One Life Through a Hundred Years of Change 📢 Snow Along the Line traces the life of an [...]

The Women & The Valleys art exhibition is now in its 5th year at Cynon Valley Museum and submissions are invited from women who either live in the South Wales Valleys or have a connection to [...]

Thank you to all who attended the Vanished Wales book talk with Carwyn Jones last weekend, it was a fascinating event that went off without a hitch!

This blog will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the valley’s railways via photographs from the Cynon Valley Museum collection. This includes some railway ‘outposts’, an example of railways and [...]