Pontypridd 2120

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As well as working on our oral history project and other things, the Museum staff, local artists and community participants have been working on something new, our first ever online exhibition! We hope you enjoy it and find something in it to reflect on...

Before the start of 2020, the Museum team had been thinking a lot about how to mark the start of this new decade, dubbed by many as the Decade of Change. With this being such a lynchpin moment in the history of humanity, in terms of the climate crisis, technological advances, and many other aspects of our lives forecast to evolve in the coming years, we wanted to mark this with a vision for the far off future, Pontypridd 2120. Little did we know however, how much and how quickly things would change in 2020!

With the Coronavirus pandemic following hot on the heels of the flooding in February, it was clear that we would have to adapt our exhibitions programme. What started off as the idea for our main exhibition, was then planned as a scaled-down physical exhibition once flood recovery was complete. then with lockdown coming into force, we had to rethink this entirely and started down the route of an online display.

Now we are finally launching the finished result! It's the product of artist-led community workshops (held just in time before lockdown at Parc Lewis and Maesycoed Primary Schools), staff research and lots of technical wizardry, we hope you find it interesting and thought-provoking, and can get involved in the conversation through our social media on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.