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ALL are welcome to a public screening of Cynon Valley archive footage from almost a century ago at the CVM! Thursday 17th at 7pm. FREE Entry, alongside a social evening with tea and biscuits to [...]

NEW Mezzanine Exhibition next week on display from Saturday the 12th of September! Come see sculptures, paintings, photographs and more at the CVM

  On Saturday the 12th at 6pm, come along to the opening event for our latest Lower Gallery Exhibition ‘Spectrum’. Wine and nibbles provided and entry is FREE!

  QUIZ on THIS WEEK! On Thursday September 3rd we’re hosting our Quiz night at 6pm. Prizes for First Place. £1 Entry

  Our first Book of the Month has been decided and it’s Yann Martel’s modern classic, Life of Pi! If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch🐅🌊⛵

For the next 2 WEEKS ‘Painting Out of the Darkness’ is on display in our upstairs gallery, and most of these beautiful works are for sale. Pop into the museum to take a look before [...]

🦁NEXT FRIDAY we have another kids Arts & Crafts drop-in at the Cynon Valley Museum. From 11am to 2pm🦁

  With thanks to the AIM Museum Fundamentals funded by Pilgrim Trust and The Julia Rausing Trust, we recently provided our staff and volunteers with important collections care training on [...]

Huge thanks to all who attended the Quiz last night! As you will all know, the Museum is now hosting a quiz TWICE a month. Next date is on the Thursday 20th of August at 6pm. We hope to see you there!

  ANNOUNCEMENT: Starting Next Thursday, the Museum is launching a Book Club! Pop in at 1pm to chat all things literature, trade recommendations and pick your book of the month

  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 [...]

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

🗺️If you want to learn more about your roots, and how your family came to live in this beautiful valley, the Glamorgan Family History Society is holding a Research Session in the Museum next [...]

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!❄️🧊

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

  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  

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

  THIS SATURDAY: St. David’s Day at the Cynon Valley Museum

  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.

Reminder: We have limited copies of ‘Wales and the All Blacks’ signed by the author, Roger G.K. Penn at the Museum! Cataloguing the fusion of such unique cultures, it includes a [...]

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 [...]

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

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. [...]

From today until the 7th of Feb, Islwyn Thorne’s Exhibition at the Cynon Valley Museum is on display! You won’t want to miss his Sketches at the British Museum