Annual General Meeting On Friday 11/10/24 At 2pm Place of meeting : Plas Dolerw, Milford Road, Newtown, Powys Dear Member, Rex Shayler (Chairman) invites you to attend our AGM meeting for 2024. Joining […]
New Information panels
There has been a major investment by the Welsh Government into the museum, which has resulted in the completion of a long project to update the information panels in […]
Owen’s death remembered
FURTHER SATURDAY OPENING DATE On Saturday 9th November, 2024, there will be an event in the Museum to commemorate and remember the 166th anniversary of the death of Robert Owen. […]
Statue in local art
Sofia La Bouchardiere entered her painting in the Newtown Town council “Big Art competition” entitled “Why I Love Newtown” in February 2022. Here it is. It got missed from our […]
Saturday opening
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN – SUMMER SATURDAY OPENING FOR 2024 This summer, the museum is also being opened on the following Saturdays: 20th July and 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th August […]
253rd Birthday
Robert Owen Museum held an event on Saturday 11th May with a birthday procession and a celebration of Robert Owen’s 253rd birthday, which started and ended at the museum building […]
Easter Saturday
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN – EASTER OPENING FOR 2024 The museum will open this Easter on Saturday 30th March, 2024 (from 11am to 3pm). We hope to greet many new visitors […]
New Harmony
A new digital display with material from Historic New Harmony, in Indiana, USA is to be unveiled at the museum soon, complete with 23 new slides showing Robert Owen’s work […]
Summer Opening
There will be be additional opening on mainly Saturdays (also one Monday) by volunteers this year too. The museum will be open 11am to 3pm on the dates below. Saturday […]
New research area
In 2023, there have been many changes and additions at the museum. These are :- Refurbished research area Digital display in the golden key display cabinet Digital display used in […]