The History Centre
Discover Wales’s only Workhouse Museum, ‘Commended’ by the Association for Heritage Interpretation!
Discover living history
Step Back in Time
- View our dramatised documentary film, ‘Ghosts of the Workhouse’ and meet the ghosts of men, women and children who lived or worked here.
- Follow our visitor or family trail around the building.
- Find out how the workhouses came into being, and what they meant for poor people in Victorian times.
- Learn about the workhouse diet, workhouse children, the workhouse school.
- Browse through our collection of historical documents.
- Try picking oakum or try on a workhouse uniform.
- Listen to the memories of older people who remember our workhouse in its last days.
- Reflect on how much has changed today.
Opening times
The Workhouse History Centre is open every day, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm. No charge for entry: donations most welcome. The displays and film can be viewed in Welsh or English.
Education pack available: for school or group visits or further information please contact info@ydolydd.co.uk
"The workhouse was a place of last resort — a place to go when all else had failed. Yet for those who entered, it was also, however harsh, a place of survival."
— Llanfyllin Workhouse Heritage Centre