SUMMER SATURDAY OPENING FOR 2025 The Robert Owen Museum in Newtown will additionally be opened for summer on Saturdays, August 9th, August 23rd, and September 6th, opening at 11am. You […]
Art inspired by Robert Owen’s Labour Notes
Art inspired by Robert Owen’s Labour Notes An exhibition opened on 31st May at the Llantarnam Grange Art Centre that features art influenced by the Labour Notes from Robert Owen’s […]
New publications
Robert Owen Museum souvenir guide. Updated and extended ‘Museum Guide’ booklets, reflecting some of the new content in the museum display, as well as a Fersiwm Cymraeg of the Museum […]
254th Birthday Celebration
Robert Owen Museum held an event in Newtown to celebrate Robert Owen’s 254th birthday on Saturday 17th May 2025. There was a birthday procession from the museum to the garden […]
Library exhibition
ROBERT OWEN UTOPIAN LEGACY EXHIBITION at Newtown Library – 2nd May to 31st May 2025 For more details – follow link below :- https://www.heritagehub4midwales.co.uk/robert-owen-utopian-legacy-exhibition Organised by Heritage Hub 4 Mid […]
AGM 2025
Annual General Meeting On Friday 25th April, 2025 at 2pm Place of meeting : Plas Dolerw, Milford Road, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2EH Dear Member, We invite you to attend our […]
Owen’s death remembered
SATURDAY OPENING DATE On Saturday 9th November, 2024, there was an event in the Museum to commemorate and remember the 166th anniversary of the death of Robert Owen. A group […]
His Timeline
Downloadable version of timeline with dates Late 1809 Formed new partnership after dispute over new schools. June 1812 Resigned as Manager after dispute over […]
The Allsop Almanack
The Almanack which the Museum has recently acquired was a present by Robert Owen to Miss Mary Allsop, who was the daughter of his long-term friend and ally, Thomas Allsop. […]
About the Almanack (bi-lingual)
This example of Goldsmith’s Almanack was a new year present to ‘Miss Mary Allsop’ by Robert Owen signed and dated 1st January 1850. Mary Lamb Allsop, born in 1836, would […]
Christmas 2024
Rex Shayler, Chairman of Robert Owen Museum wishes a Happy Christmas to everyone and announces the Christmas opening hours below. “The museum will be closed from 1pm on Tuesday 24th […]
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 […]
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 […]