Powysland Museum And Welshpool Library

Y Lanfa is a community hub with a museum upstairs and a library down stairs. Powysland Museum depicts the archaeology and social history of Welshpool and the wider Montgomeryshire area. The first gallery shows how life in mid-Wales has changed with exhibits on social history, the railway, canal, the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and Laura Ashley. The second gallery takes the visitor on a chronological tour of local archaeological finds from the prehistoric, the Ancient Romans to the early Medieval period.