New museum exhibition features artwork and medieval poetry

The opening of an exhibition combining new artwork and medieval poetry will take place at Llangollen Museum on Wednesday June 10.     

In the company of Jenny Day, Martin Crampin, Gruffudd Antur and Eurig Salisbury, it has been created by the ‘Gutun Owain, Border poet and Renaissance man’ project (gutunowain.cymru) in collaboration with the museum.

The project, at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, investigates the wide-ranging interests and networks of Gutun Owain in the context of the flourishing literary and scholarly culture in north-east Wales on the eve of the Renaissance in Wales.

Llangollen Museum, 10 June 2026. Doors open at 6.30pm, talks begin at 7.00pm. Light refreshments will be provided (light buffet and wine/juice/tea/coffee).

This is a free event, but numbers are limited. To register, contact: canolfan@cymru.ac.uk.

A museum spokesperson said: "We thank CADW for their support of the project and for providing access to Valle Crucis and the monumental sculptures there, and we thank the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for funding the project."

The exhibition will be on display in Llangollen Museum for the whole of June and July 2026.