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  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

📢 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 [...]

Santa Claus came to the Museum this past weekend and it was a roaring success! Thank you so much to everyone who attended, we hope we brought a bit of Christmas cheer to your family

Food from the Principality Foodbank is now found at the Cynon Valley Museum. Please bring your own bags and collect as much as you need. Open Thursday – Saturday, 10am to 4pm.

  Get ready for the December Newsletter for the Cynon Valley Museum! Everything you need to know is here!

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!

Mythical, Extinct & Endangered is a combined effort from Linda Agostini, Lisa Calnan and Saskia Wagner. I won’t be here for long, so see it while you can!

THIS SATURDAY- Carwyn Jones is hosting a book reading of Vanished Wales — based on the ITV Series — in the Cynon Valley Museum on November 22nd at 11:30am. Admission £2 Admission Plus [...]

Get yourselves ready for the Cynon Valley Museum’s November Newsletter! See what’s on and come visit! Welsh Translation

We are proud to announce that we are hosting the custom clothing of Draig Wear in our Shop! He offers £12 for a shirt of any size, and if the print you like is in the wrong size, he’ll make [...]