Llanidloes Museum
Local history museum in the Town Hall, shown among the library shelves, with Chartist, lead-mining and woollen-industry displays and Victorian room scenes.
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About the museum
Llanidloes Museum of Local History and Industry was established in 1930 and was first housed in the Old Market Hall. In 1995 it moved to the ground floor of the Town Hall in Great Oak Street, where it shares the building with the town library.
The Town Hall is a Grade II listed Arts and Crafts building by Frank Shayler and Thomas Ridge, opened in 1908. It was paid for by descendants of David Davies of Llandinam and was planned to combine a market hall with a meeting place for the borough council.
The museum shows the history of the borough of Llanidloes over about the last three hundred years. Its exhibits stand among the library shelves and cover the Chartist outbreak of 1839, the local lead mines and the woollen industry. The last room has three diorama cases with late Victorian scenes: a kitchen and laundry, a parlour and a naturalist’s study.
Highlights
- Display on the 1839 Chartist outbreak
- Lead-mining and woollen-industry collections
- Scale model of the Van lead mine at Y Fan
- Three late Victorian room scenes in diorama cases
- Welsh hand loom, penny-farthing and miner’s equipment
Permanent exhibitions
- Chartists and the 1839 outbreak – A display in the foyer about the Chartist movement and the events of 1839 in the town.
- Lead mines and the woollen industry – Tools, models and everyday objects that show the trades that shaped Llanidloes, including a scale model of the Van lead mine.
- Victorian scenes – Three diorama cases show a kitchen and laundry, a parlour and a naturalist’s study from the late Victorian period.
- Founded
- 1930
- Operated by
- Powys County Council
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Amenities & dining
The museum is inside the Town Hall together with Llanidloes Library.
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