Name Nêst Thomas Position : Museums and Arts Manager Main duties of your role at Storiel : Leading the Museums and the Arts Service including Storiel, Lloyd George Museum, Community Arts and Visual Arts to achieve what’s important to the people of Gwynedd How long have you worked at Storiel? I have worked for Gwynedd… Read more »
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Meet the Team – Helen Walker
Name : Helen Walker Position : Learning Officer Main duties of your role at Storiel : Provide educational resources to support the collection and exhibitions. Hold events that have an educational element or that expand Storiels audience, offering a service to schools who want to make use of the collections or borrow items. How long… Read more »
Meet the Team – Dion Hamer
Name: Dion Hamer Position: Part Time Exhibitions Officer / Senior Assistant Lloyd George Museum Main duties of your role at Storiel : Setting and taking down art shows in Storiel galleries. How long have you worked at Storiel? Been helping to set up exhibitions since Storiel’s first year, 5 years ago. What’s the best thing… Read more »
International Womens Day and Meet the Team
Happy International Womens Day! We would like to mark this day with an introduction to one of our many inspirational female team members, Emma Hobbins. Look out over the next few weeks to meet the rest of our fantastic team! Name: Emma Hobbins Job: Museum attendant Main duties of your role at Storiel Helping look… Read more »
Mask making in aid of GISDA
We have posted out an amazing 80 masks for our decorating a mask event in aid of the homelessness charity GISDA as part of the Welsh Museums Festival. Participants will decorate masks at home for inculsion in a special online exhibition alongside masks made by professional artists. We can’t wait to see the completed masks!… Read more »
Changing Over Exhibitions
Work on changing over exhibitions that were delayed due to the Covid19 pandemic continues! So good to get started again and feel like we are finally making some progress. We have been taking down and returning the Paul Davies ‘Welsh Not’ exhibition and are excited to be putting up the Open Art exhibition that was… Read more »
Back at Storiel at last
Back at Storiel at last – to take down 2 exhibitions ready for new ones to be installed before we open. I removed Queen Victoria’s dress which had been put on display at the same time as Lucy Worsley’s talk about her last November. Handling the costume, and looking at it reminded me how much… Read more »
A message to Gwynedd’s Heritage Forum
Dear all, There has not been a meeting of the Gwynedd Heritage Forum for some time and due to the present situation we thought it would be a good idea to reconnect so that we can support each other. We appreciate, clearly that this is an incredibly challenging time for everyone and especially so the… Read more »
Lloyd George and Spanish Flu
In 1918 the world was on its knees, after 4 years of war, the strain of H1N1 flu came as a shadow over the world. Known as the Spanish flu, because Spanish journalists unlike most in the world were reporting the disease and deaths, this was the most serious pandemic since the Black Death. 11… Read more »