PENSYCHNANT UPLAND GUIDED HISTORY WALK Saturday 23rd May 2026 10am - 3pm The walk finishes with tea and cake at Pensychnant Nature Reserve £25.00 per person Booking essential - please follow the link to Eventbrite to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989553264...

Tonight's lecture is.... Rock Art with Professor George Nash Wednesday 18th February 2026 7pm Penmaenmawr Community Centre

Celebrate the Welsh Museums Festival with us MAKE YOUR OWN SECRET TREASURE BOX Free craft activity for children 10 places available - booking essential Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th October 2025 6.00pm - 7.30pm Please follow the link to Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-your-...

RAILWAYS IN THE NORTH WALES QUARRIES A talk by Dr David Gwyn Wednesday 15th October 2025 Penmaenmawr Community Centre 7pm Entry: £4.00 for non-members FREE for Friends of Penmaenmawr Museum

Our museum shop has moved to a new, larger premises 1 Oxford Arcade, Penmaenmawr. We sell Welsh & English books, Welsh gifts, prints & eco-friendly museum items. Open: Tuesday - Sunday 10am to 4pm Proceeds support running the museum & caring for our collection. Pop in for a browse 😊

Our penultimate Summer of Fun event is a good one and something we've never tried before... Time to Explore! Make felt pouches and a compass FREE for children and families Saturday 23rd August 2025 drop in anytime between 11am and 4pm Eden Hall Garden, Penmaenmawr (just above the museum)

Our penultimate Summer of Fun event is a good one and something we've never tried before... Time to Explore! Make felt pouches and a compass FREE for children and families Saturday 23rd August 2025 drop in anytime between 11am and 4pm Eden Hall Garden, Penmaenmawr (just above the museum)

We're all set up and ready to go at Eden Hall, Penmaenmawr today AXE FACTOR Free for children and families drop in anytime between 11am - 4pm Neolithic axe-making demonstrations with James Dilley Spindle-whorl making Make bark pouches Trinket-making and lots of crafts

We're so excited to welcome artist Luned Rhys Parri to our summer programme this year! FREE activity for children and families Make your own painted teapots Wednesday 13th August 2025 at Eden Hall Garden, Penmaenmawr Drop in anytime between 11am and 4pm

Hugely excited! 2nd August 2025 Sbarduno is coming to Penmaenmawr with their interactive science show. In the morning - make a lava lamp In the afternoon - rock erosion experiments with chocolate FREE for children & families Drop in anytime between 11am-4pm Eden Hall Garden, Penmaenmawr

Our Summer of Fun kicks off tomorrow! FREE creative heritage activities for children and families throughout the summer This year's theme is 'navigating the landscape' and the programme has been funded by NLHF through the Carneddau Landscape Partnership Scheme

Our summer programme will be released next week! A very exciting programme this year that includes the artist Luned Rhys Parri, Baby Brahms, and interactive science sessions with Sbarduno! All activities are FREE thanks to funding from the Carneddau Landscape Partnership Scheme.

Penmaenmawr Museum's annual quarry trips are now live to book online. There are two dates available: Wednesday 16 July 2025 Wednesday 13 August 2025 Tickets £15 each inc coach & tour guide. Proceeds go to Penmaenmawr Museum. Please follow this link to book: www.ticketsource.co.uk/penmaenmawr-...

Join us for our Hiraeth session tomorrow A chance to look through old photographs of Penmaenmawr and reminisce. FREE Venue: Penmaenmawr Museum

We're gearing up for summer with our first children's event of the year, in beautiful Eden Hall Garden. Bank Holiday Monday 26th May 2025 MISH-MASH CRAFTS Free for Children and Families Drop in anytime between 11am and 4pm All under cover - gazebos dusted off and ready to go

Trwyn-y-Wylfa, Penmaenmawr

Filing some of our modern photograph collection and came across this lovely photo taken by one of our volunteers. Pendyffryn woods on a late afternoon in August.

Our next talk is about Archbishop John Williams. He was born in Conwy and became an advisor to King James I. He was imprisoned on various occasions and even had a stint in the Tower of London! Weds 19th March 2025 7pm Penmaenmawr Comm Centre Members: FREE Non-members: £3.00

Vintage clothing and Vintage Ceramics Sale Saturday 1st March 2025 11am - 3pm Penmaenmawr Museum, Penmaenmawr All funds raised in aid of Penmaenmawr Museum - to help us pay our extortionate electricity bill!!

Another fascinating talk this week! Dr Toby Driver takes us on a journey through the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales. Wednesday 19th February 2025 Penmaenmawr Community Centre 7pm Friends of Penmaenmawr Museum (members) £FREE Non-members £3.00

We're selling tickets for this amazing gig at Penmaenmawr Museum. Please call during the Warm Hub opening hours 11am - 2pm Saturdays and Sundays. If you see a light on in the museum during the week (it's our shut-down period), please knock on the door if you want to buy some.

Our winter lecture series resumes this week, with a fascinating talk on the Carneddau Sheepfolds, by Nigel Beidas. Wednesday 15th January 7.00pm Penmaenmawr Community Centre Entry fee: Members: FREE Non-members: £3.00 each

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Meini Hirion Bronze Age stone circle on the Carneddau mountain above Penmaenmawr. The Victorians called it 'the druid's circle' & made up stories about druids worshipping there because they liked doing that type of thing. Meini Hirion means simply 'long stones'

The 3rd in our series of interpretive illustrations of Penmaenmawr's shops. This time we're at Miss Winnie Hughes' Sweet Shop on Conwy Old Road. It was a small wooden structure with a tin roof, situated in a clearing opposite Eden Hall Gardens.

If you are looking for something to keep children's minds off Santa's imminent visit for a few hours, we're doing a pop-up craft session at the museum on Saturday. Make your own festive cards and badges FREE for children and families Saturday 21st December 2024 Drop in anytime between 11am - 3pm

If you are looking for something to keep children's minds off Santa's imminent visit for a few hours, we're doing a pop-up craft session at the museum on Saturday. Make your own festive cards and badges FREE for children and families Saturday 21st December 2024 Drop in anytime between 11am - 3pm

The 2nd in our series of interpretative illustrations, based on photos in our collection & descriptions of Penmaenmawr's shop windows at Christmas. This one is J M Jones Butcher's shop, Christmas 1902.

We've used photos in our collection and descriptions of Penmaenmawr's shop windows from Christmas 1901 to create some interpretative illustrations. This one is the window S. H. Roberts & Co, Cambrian House. One of the features of the window included a stuffed fox caught in the vicinity!

Let's get crafty for Christmas! FREE Christmas crafts for children Saturday 14th December drop in anytime between 11am to 3pm Venue: Penmaenmawr Museum

We're holding our annual Christmas event for our 30 volunteers today, to thank them for all their work. We've set up an old-fashioned sweet shop with personalised labels on the jars full of their favourite sweets. Penmaenmawr Museum is run on volunteer effort and they do a tremendous job.

One of the many clever marketing campaigns by the unscrupulous Morris Evans Household Oil company in the early 1900s. They claimed the oil cured everything from TB in cattle to arthritis in people. People who used to use it, still swear by it. What was in it? Who knows!

In the museum shop this week, this has been our best-selling notebook!

Eden Hall Garden in Penmaenmawr was once owned by the Dempsters. Edith Pretty, of Sutton Hoo fame, was Robert Dempster's granddaughter. Edith lived in Eden Hall with her grandparents and parents for nearly a year.

We've joined forces with Colwyn Bay Heritage Society today, to visit another amazing cultural venue in North Wales - @YrYsgwrn, the home of Hedd Wyn Thanks to @ConwyCBC SPF for supporting this educational visit. It's great to see what other museums are doing and how we can learn from each other.

Greetings from Penmaenmawr :)