Llandudno Rotary’s visit to our town’s Museum

Llandudno Rotary’s visit to our town’s Museum

For the last two summers Rotary activities have been subject to the limitations of Covid, and so you could say that we are now making up for lost time, with a visit to Llandudno Distillery last month and a planned visit to the Spinnies Nature Reserve next month

This month’s visit was to Llandudno Museum, which is as old as it is new

Old, because as far back as 1925. Francis Edouard Chardon bequeathed his home, Rapallo House, Craig –y Don, and his collection of decorative and fine arts and artefacts to Llandudno for the enjoyment of the people

New, because the Museum (which moved to the more central location of Gloddaeth St. in the 1980’s) bought and converted next door before/during the Covid epidemic and is now double its former size This means that even if you think you know the Museum you don’t, because it has been completely refurbished and re-designed, with many more artefacts displayed than was possible before

On Tuesday, 19^th July, 10 Rotarians and their friends/partners were shown round by Dawn Lancaster, the Museum’s proud Museum Director and Curator. In the time we had, she was able to show us just a fraction of the 9,000 artefacts, which  fall into the broad areas of

natural history and geology

local decorative and fine art

social history

military history. 

Grateful thanks also to Rtn. Mary Oliver, MBE, Chairman of the Museum Trustees, who organised the visit

A welcome bonus was that we were joined by Edwina Winter, who will be known to many of you as the daughter of Revd. Jane Allen. Edwina now lives in the USA and is a Member of the Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo, South Carolina