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This year the Waterworks Museum, in partnership with the Stirling Engine Society, is dedicating the summer to the genius of the Rev. Robert Stirling to celebrate 200th anniversary of the first Stirling hot air engine patent in 1816. Our celebration will start on Sunday 24 April with the launch a new interactive exhibition and will culminate…

Buoyed by better than forecast weather, the Waterworks Museum enjoyed a great start to the new season welcoming some 350 visitors over the extended Easter weekend. The Directors are delighted that our newest outdoor exhibit (the Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park) continues to draw an increasing number of families and children from near and far…

The Trustees were delighted to support Disabled Access Day, a national event about getting out and visiting a venue that had not been visited before, and nearly 40 disabled visitors and their carers enjoyed seeing the Museum’s collection. The event, which was most generously sponsored by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, was a late addition to the 2016 programme and one of…

The Museum’s Annual General Meeting was held on Monday 7 March 2016 when close to 40 Members approved proposals to mark the standing down of the Chairman, Dr Noel Meeke MBE, after 20 years of leading the Museum.  The AGM also passed routine business resolutions to approve the Trustees Annual Report and Accounts for 2015 and…

At the Annual General Meeting on Monday 7 March 2016, the Members of the Museum honoured the outgoing Chairman, Dr Noel Meeke MBE, by unanimously agreeing to a renaming of the Museum’s outdoor exhibition space as The Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park. Noel, who was also awarded a personal title of Honorary Companion of the Waterworks Museum,…