What a Great Week!
Welsh Museum’s Festival Week at Porthcawl Museum was an incredible experience.
On Saturday 24th October . Mrs. Madeliene Moon MP, who has been a tireless supporter and friend of the Museum, was asked to officially open the New Wing. We were, also, so fortunate to have the company of special guests, First Minister, Mr. Carwyn Jones, The High Sheriff, Mrs. Jayne James. The Mayor of BCBC, Mr. Richard Young, The Mayor of Porthcawl, Mr. David Newton- Williams and AM’s Mrs. Suzy Davies and Mr. Altaf Hussein. Town Councillors, representatives of town organisations, members and volunteers all helped to make it a memorable occasion. The Porthcawl Railway Exhibiton attracted many comments; as did the pleasing return of Mr. Anthony Hontoir’s models of the Samtampa and Prince Edward Lifeboat to the Museum. The models will be the centrepiece of a much bigger ‘Samtampa Exhibiton’ next year; in readiness for the 70th Anniversary Commemorations of that tragic disaster, that occured on 23rd April 1947 . During the rest of the week , visitor attendance proved to be constant, with many enjoying the new exhibitions now on display, which ,also, includes a cabinet of police memorabilia to accom- pany the restoration of a cell ,back to as it would have looked in 1900.
Museum Week ended with a spine-chilling Halloween Night! Volunteers, Chris and Carole worked tirelessly all week decorating out Cell 2 as a witch’s den, complete with cauldron, bats, spiders and an enchanted wishing tree . On the Friday night, Chris, David, Paul and Ceri helped the others to deck out the New Wing and corridor. Next door Nigel and Lydia John turned the canopy in the backyard into a cacophony of hanging skeletons, flying ghosts and creatures of the night. The hard work of those involved was not only appreciated by the children and adults who kept up a constant stream of visitors but the whole evening was filmed by the organisers of the Welsh Museum’s Festival; as part of a promotional video for next year’s event. Our Museum was chosen with Pontypool and Pontypridd Museums to be the only venues filmed. What a lot of work! but What an honour! A huge thanks to all who made Museums Week ,at our Museum, such a tremendous success.
On Saturday 24th October . Mrs. Madeliene Moon MP, who has been a tireless supporter and friend of the Museum, was asked to officially open the New Wing. We were, also, so fortunate to have the company of special guests, First Minister, Mr. Carwyn Jones, The High Sheriff, Mrs. Jayne James. The Mayor of BCBC, Mr. Richard Young, The Mayor of Porthcawl, Mr. David Newton- Williams and AM’s Mrs. Suzy Davies and Mr. Altaf Hussein. Town Councillors, representatives of town organisations, members and volunteers all helped to make it a memorable occasion. The Porthcawl Railway Exhibiton attracted many comments; as did the pleasing return of Mr. Anthony Hontoir’s models of the Samtampa and Prince Edward Lifeboat to the Museum. The models will be the centrepiece of a much bigger ‘Samtampa Exhibiton’ next year; in readiness for the 70th Anniversary Commemorations of that tragic disaster, that occured on 23rd April 1947 . During the rest of the week , visitor attendance proved to be constant, with many enjoying the new exhibitions now on display, which ,also, includes a cabinet of police memorabilia to accom- pany the restoration of a cell ,back to as it would have looked in 1900.
Museum Week ended with a spine-chilling Halloween Night! Volunteers, Chris and Carole worked tirelessly all week decorating out Cell 2 as a witch’s den, complete with cauldron, bats, spiders and an enchanted wishing tree . On the Friday night, Chris, David, Paul and Ceri helped the others to deck out the New Wing and corridor. Next door Nigel and Lydia John turned the canopy in the backyard into a cacophony of hanging skeletons, flying ghosts and creatures of the night. The hard work of those involved was not only appreciated by the children and adults who kept up a constant stream of visitors but the whole evening was filmed by the organisers of the Welsh Museum’s Festival; as part of a promotional video for next year’s event. Our Museum was chosen with Pontypool and Pontypridd Museums to be the only venues filmed. What a lot of work! but What an honour! A huge thanks to all who made Museums Week ,at our Museum, such a tremendous success.
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Halloween in a Cell!
SEE YOU ALL AGAIN
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