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  ANNOUNCEMENT Starting this week, the CVM is launching a Chess Club 1pm on Fridays. Bring a friend or test your skill on our Volunteers Play or Learn, FREE entry and all levels of [...]

ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re hosting a Dungeons and Dragons club at the museum! We’ve got a Dungeon Master, now all we need is people to play! Entry is FREE!

  Meet the artists and join in the Opening Event THIS SATURDAY for ‘Everyone is from Somewhere’! From 2pm to 4pm

  The Museum’s latest Exhibitions opens TODAY! ‘Everyone is From Somewhere’ is a collaborative Mixed-media Exhibition on themes of identity and place. These are beautiful [...]

Here’s what’s on in the Cynon Valley Museum for the month of July! From Welsh classes to Quizzes, take a look and we hope you pop in!

Voice It! launches in RCT: Conversations in the community that count! Residents invited to share their views in new ‘Voice It!’ events across RCT Residents across Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) are [...]

🧊❄️Be careful in this heat! If you need to cool down, come and relax in our Tearoom!❄️🧊

Starting NEXT WEEK we are hosting free Welsh Practice Sessions at the Cynon Valley Museum. Tuesdays, starting at 10pm, here’s a guide above. We hope to see you there!

After the great success of the first night, Next month we are hosting another Quiz Night at the Museum A prize of wine and Chocolates up for grabs See you Wednesday, 8th of July!

The museum holds several interesting items linked to the 1926 General Strike, a national industrial strike which saw thousands of miners across South Wales striking for better working hours and [...]

    The Chinese Brush Painting Exhibition is now on display! Come Meet the Artist tomorrow at the museum from 10:30am to 1pm!

IN TWO WEEKS we’re hosting a Quiz at the Cynon Valley Museum! Starting 6pm on Wednesday the 27th, you can win a bag of chocolates, biscuits and a free voucher for Tea/Coffee with Cake!

From our Community Showcase submissions to our upcoming Quiz, the newsletter for the Cynon Valley Museum for the month of May is here

NEXT THURSDAY if you’re interested in the origins of your family, or perhaps local history, then pop down to the Glamorgan Family History Society Research Session from 2 – 4pm!

This year marks the centenary of the 1926 General Strike and Lock Out, in which 1.5 million workers across Britain took part in a nine-day labour stoppage. In the South Wales Coalfield, the [...]

🎨NEXT WEEK The Submission period for our Community Showcase Exhibition opens! Please observe the guidelines above, we’re so excited to see what you create!🎨

IN TWO WEEKS We’re hosting a Cuppa with a Copper at the Cynon Valley Museum! From 11am to 2pm, come along and have a chat to your Neighbourhood Policing Team about the issues that matter to you

  NEXT WEEK we have Welsh author Morgan Greene Author teaching creative writing in the Cynon Valley Museum on Wednesday the 22nd of April. Go to the website below to book tickets and get [...]

NEXT WEEK come see the Cynon Valley History Society’s talk on the history of Western Welsh coach travel next Thursday, April 16th. 7pm to 9pm with FREE Entry!

THIS SATURDAY! Meet the Artist behind the Museum’s latest vivid, wild and kaleidoscopic exhibition, Bug! In Saturday from 10am to 1pm, come and the artist’s perspective of his own work

  Community Showcase Exhibition Official Announcement!🎉 All the details are below, but if there’s anything you’re unsure of, send all enquiries to office@cynonvalleymuseum.wales  

Coming up: Bug’s photography exhibition in the Lower Gallery! Bug, an autistic photographer from Llantrisant, South Wales, UK, uses photography to navigate the visual overload of the world. [...]

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 [...]

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 🕊️🐦

THIS THURSDAY We have a CVHS Lecture on the Keatings Family from Mountain Ash. A story built on hardship with great surprises in store that you can see for FREE!🏛️🦉📜

  THIS SATURDAY the 14th of Feb, we are hosting a kids book reading by Jerzy Jones and an Arts & Crafts session for FREE at the Cynon Valley Museum.

A closer look at the beautiful handmade walking sticks by Norman West