Drawn Together Wales
On the morning of Wednesday 8 August, why not come along to Tenby Museum and be a part of Wales’ largest community drawing project, Drawn Together/Creu Ar Y Cyd. Drawn Together encourages everyone to pick up sketch book and pencil and make your mark on the artistic map of Wales, encouraging you to look at […]
The Private Life of the Gannet
On Friday 17 August at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, join seabird specialist Mick Brown for a detailed look at Britain’s largest and probably least known specialised heavy weight plunge diver at his talk The Private Life of the Gannet. Mick has been working on small expedition ships in the Arctic and Antarctica for the past […]
Listen very carefully – A Talk on Spy Films is coming
Tenby Museum is fortunate to have the acknowledged expert on spy movies giving a talk at the museum on Friday 20 July. Film historian Richard Rhys Davies is the author of The International Spy Guide 1945 – 1989, a book described by Anthony Horowitz (who is widely published and the author of the James Bond novel Trigger […]
Summer Solstice Folk & Jazz Extravaganza!
In case you missed the magnificent sell-out Twelfth Night jazz and folk musical performance at the museum earlier this year – this was an historic occasion as it was the first ever music concert in the long history of the museum – or if you were there for the magic of that occasion, then there […]
“The common cormorant…on St Margaret’s Island”
The common cormorant (or shag) Lays eggs inside a paper bag, You follow the idea, no doubt? It’s to keep the lightning out…. But what these unobservant birds Have never thought of, is that herds Of wandering bears might come with buns And steal the bags to hold the crumbs. so wrote Christopher Isherwood but […]
Every Shell Tells a Story!
Every shell tells a story…that’s what we found out during Dr Graham Oliver’s talk on Wednesday. Dr Oliver has been researching the wonderful collection of shells gifted to the museum by the daughters of William Lyons. We’re researching his life in Tenby and finding that although he’s not much known in Tenby today he was […]
Quaynotes Choir raising funds for local heritage causes
Tonight (Tuesday 5 September) sees the Quaynotes Choir give a charity concert at St John’s Church in Tenby. The concert is in support of the work of two of Tenby’s longest serving heritage hubs, National Trust’s Tudor Merchant’s House and Tenby Museum. The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £6 per adult (children have free […]
Tenby Museum Beach Clean
On Tuesday 25 July a beach clean took place on Freshwater West. The event was instigated by Tenby Museum and arranged and lead by The Darwin Centre. Members form the VC Gallery in Haverfordwest and Tenby Youth Club also took part. The beach clean was the second stage of the previous graffiti project that had […]
A Walk on the Beach
We all love to walk on the beach…getting sand between our toes…William Lyons in the early 19th Century didn’t just take a walk on a beach, he collected and amassed a seminal shell collection which his daughter donated to Tenby Museum and Art Gallery in 1878. To celebrate this Local Hero and thanks to the […]
Come along to an Art Exhibition at Paxton Court
Tenby Museum is holding an art exhibition of works by four local artists to the hosted by McCarthy & Stone at Paxton Court, White Lion Street, Tenby on Friday 22 January between 5.30pm and 7.00pm. McCarthy & Stone, in an ongoing commitment to the local community, are generously supporting the museum by donating £10 for […]
