IT'S been a rewarding time for a Dee Valley museum.

Corwen Museum has become the only museum in Wales to win a New Stories New Audiences Grant from AIM (Association of Independent Museums) and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This is to support its new project entitled 'Slate and the making of Glyndyfrdwy'.

Focusing on the village of Glyndyfrdwy, five miles east of Corwen, this project will share original stories form the village through a range of immersive stories, both past and present, focusing on the slate mines which were part of the village.

In the museum building in Corwen, there will be displays telling stories of the place and people, using soundscape and lighting.

There will be a bi-lingual digital walk available which can be accessed from a mobile phone and used alongside a walk to the quarry.

It will also be available online for those who prefer this.

The project will also include outdoor interpretation boards together with offering opportunities for personal guided walks to the slate mining sites.

Corwen Museum has also developed a relationship with Glyndyfrdwy Women's Institute.

The first step with this relationship is ‘connection and collection’, when people can share their photographs and stories of the village and the quarry.

These will help produce display boards for the village and the museum. It will be followed by more work on the collation of oral history.

It is intended that the Museum and the new project will open on Easter Saturday, April 16.