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Museums long ago ceased to be stuffy
rooms full of glass cases containing bits of old pottery
and fossilised bones.
Today even most conventional
museums including displays which change but over recent
years there has been a growth in industrial and "living"
museums.
Here you can get a feel for how people lived
and worked, the hardships they endured...
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Galleries listed include not just civic
galleries displaying publicly owned artworks, but also
privately owned galleries with items for sale.
Not all the
museums and galleries in the Mid Wales area are listed.
Please provide details of any we have missed here.
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BRECKNOCK MUSEUM & ART
GALLERY
Captains Walk, Brecon, Powys, LD3 7DS
Tel: 01874 624121
E-mail:
brecknock.museum@powys.gov.uk
See our
website
Open all year. Monday to Fri 10am -
5pm. Sat 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm. Sundays
(April to Sept) 12am - 5pm.
Admission: Adults £1, Concessions
£0.50p, Children FREE.
A wealth of local history is explored at the
museum, which has archaeological and historical
exhibits, with sections on folk life, decorative
arts and natural history. There is one of the
finest collections of Welsh Lovespoons, and a
full exhibition programme, particularly of work
by Welsh artists.
A Brecknock Town Life Gallery
houses an interactive video display unit showing
local photographic information. The Victorian
Assize court has been recently reinterpreted
with figures, sound and light. Access for
wheelchairs. Small car park, otherwise use town
parking.
For further details on Brecknock Museum & Art
Gallery in Brecon, Mid Wales see our website.
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NATIONAL CYCLE MUSEUM
The Automabile Palace, Temple Street,
Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 5DL
Tel: 01597 825531
Fax: 01597 825531
E-mail:
cycle.museum@care4free.net
Web site:
www.cyclemuseum.org.uk
Open daily. March to
October, 10am - 4pm. Winter:
Please contact to confirm.
Special exhibitions held throughout the year.
Admission: Adults £3.00, Senior Citizens £2,
Children £1.
How big is a Penny
Farthing's wheel? And just how uncomfortable
were those early bikes compared with today's
hi-tech versions? Travel back through time and
see bicycles from 1819, such as the Hobby Horse,
Boneshakers and Penny Farthings up to the most
modern Raleigh cycles of today. See historic
shop replicas including early lamp collections.
Photographs, posters and enamel signs from days
gone by. The Dunlop tyre story. Cycles through
the ages on video. Displays on past racing stars
such as Tom Simpson, Barry Hoban, Bill Bradley,
Billie Dovey, Barry Clarke and George Fleming.
Over 250 machines on display at any one time
with a similar number held in the reserve
collection or awaiting conservation and
preparation for display, all with a story to
tell.
For further details on our riding school near
Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales see our website.
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BLEDDFA: Centre for the
Creative Spirit
Old School Gallery, Bleddfa, Knighton, Powys,
LD7 1PA
Tel: 01547 550377
Fax: 01547 550370
E-mail us
Web:
www.bleddfacentre.com
Season runs: Late March to end of December.
The Bleddfa Centre, run
as a charitable trust, is set in the Radnorshire
hills on the Welsh Borders, a short distance
Knighton and within easy reach of Hereford,
Shrewsbury and Ludlow. It offers a hospitable
environment for a series of unique workshops,
exhibitions, musical and other events, designed
to bring together spirituality and the creative
arts.
A Programme of Events is
available from the Centre's website and the
Trustees also offer facilities in the converted
Hall Barn for independent workshops, meetings
and conferences. Please enquire for further
details, opening times and costs. Alternatively
see our website for further details on our art
gallery near Powys, Mid Wales.
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ANDREW LOGAN MUSEUM OF
SCULPTURE
Berriew, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8PJ
Tel: 01686 640689
E-mail:
andrewdl@andrewlogan.com
Web:
www.andrewlogan.com
Opening Times: June to September: Sat &
Sun, 12am - 4pm. Easter weekend and all Bank
Holidays, 12noon - 4pm.
Admission: Adults £3, Children &
Concessions £1.50p
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The only
museum in Europe dedicated to a living
artist. The Andrew Logan Museum of
Sculpture is the art of popular poetry
and metropolitan glamour.
It provides the sort of glamorous moment
or celebration for which many of us
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Andrew Logan's magical world includes flowers,
animals, planets & gods. Butterflies are larger
than birds and a throne is a velvet lilly. It is
the art of popular poetry & metropolitan glamour.
Licence for weddings and group visits.
For further details on our museum near Welshpool,
Mid Wales see our website.
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POWYSLAND MUSEUM
Canal Yard, Welshpool, Powys, SY21 7AQ
Tel: 01938 554656
E-mail:
powysmuseums@powys.gov.uk
Web:
www.powys.gov.uk
The Powysland Museum and
Montgomery Canal Centre illustrates the history
and development of life in Montgomeryshire from
the earliest prehistoric settlers to the 20th
century population. It is housed in a carefully
restored and renovated 19th century warehouse by
the Montgomery Canal. The museum has a programme
of changing temporary exhibitions. The displays
illustrate the history and development of life
in Montgomeryshire from the earliest prehistoric
settlers to the 20th century population.
Within the entrance hall to
the museum the visitor is reminded of the
initial purpose of the building as a warehouse.
On the ground floor is an exhibition of
agricultural tools, stock-farming implements and
dairying equipment, which reflects the
fundamental part played by farming in the growth
of the economy and society of the area since the
very earliest times. Also on show are
collections depicting the development of the
canal and the railway systems which have
similarly had a tremendous effect on the
character of the county. A display of old
photographs and maps gives a picturesque
introduction to Welshpool and Montgomeryshire.
Through the second room on the ground floor,
which has changing exhibitions, the visitor can
use the stair or the lift to the first floor.
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POWIS CASTLE & GARDEN
Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8RF
Tel: 01938 551920
Information Line: 01938 551944
Fax: 01938 554336
E-mail:
powiscastle@nationaltrust.org.uk
Web:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Opening Times: March to
Oct 29th, Thurs to Mon. Call to confirm
admission times and prices.
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The world-famous
garden, overhung with enormous clipped yews,
shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under
the influence of Italian and French styles, the
garden retains its original lead statues, an
orangery and an aviary on the terraces.
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In the 18th century an informal woodland
wilderness was created on the opposing ridge.
Perched on a rock above the garden terraces, the
medieval castle contains one of the finest
collections in Wales. It was originally built
c.1200 by Welsh princes and was subsequently
adapted and embellished by generations of
Herberts and Clives, who furnished the castle
with a wealth of fine paintings and furniture.
A beautiful collection
of treasures from India is displayed in the
Clive Museum.
For further details about Powis Castle & Garden
in Welshpool, Mid Wales see our website.
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Ceredigion Museum
Coliseum, Terrace Rd, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AQ
Tel: 01970 633088 Fax:
01970 633084
E-mail:
museum@ceredigion.gov.uk
Local museum in a restored Edwardian theatre.
Archaeology, furniture, seafaring, agriculture,
reconstruction of a cottage, temporary art and
other displays. 'Probably the most beautiful
museum interior in Britain'.
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The Judge's Lodging
Broad St, Presteigne, Powys, LD8 2AD
Tel: 01544 260650 Fax:
01544 260652
E-mail:
info@judgeslodging.org.uk
Once called ‘the most commodious and elegant
apartments for a judge in all England and Wales’
(Lord Chief Justice Campbell, 1855), decay
beckoned Radnorshire’s disused Shire Hall into
obscurity. Now, aided by an interior hardly
touched by time and original furnishings
discarded in attics, extensive research and
restoration has re-awakened this ‘Victorian
fossil’. From the stunningly restored judge’s
apartments to the dingy servants’ quarters below
you can explore their gaslit world. Damp cells
remind you of the building’s true purpose, along
with the vast courtroom where your imagination
in captured by the echoing trial of William
Morgan, local duck thief. Visitors to the
building are accompanied by an eavesdropping
audio tour of voices from the past; you will
hear their tale, from Mary the hardworking maid,
to Reverend Richard Lister Venables, Chairman of
the Magistrates and employer of the famous
diarist Francis Kilvert, portrayed by actor
Robert Hardy. An historic house with a
difference, our total ‘hands-on’ policy allows
you to actually sit in the judge’s chair, study
his books, even pump water in the kitchen
(although we would rather you did not use the
commodes!)
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