THE MUSEUM
Trefin Museum explores and celebrates the art, history and seafaring heritage of Trefin and its place in our lives today. Visitors will discover the stories of Trefin’s sea captains and famous poet Crwys through a permanent collection of artefacts throughout history alongside prints, paintings and our photographic archive exploring life and community in Trefin.
Exhibitions, events and community projects delve into art, architecture, plant science, music, sustainability and more, all through the lens of Trefin life.
Trefin Museum is home to our Library which conserves and provides access to one thousand books on leading British designers, artists and architects of the 20th and 21st century.
Housed in the village’s deconsecrated Baptist chapel, Trefin Museum was founded by Max Lacey and Meriel Murphy in 2015 in order to save a place of real significance to the village’s identity and encourage public understanding and interest in this precious building through making it available to anyone to visit.
At the heart of the Museum is the Trefin Tapestry, a masterpiece of more than one million stitches created by Val Dubben to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the building’s construction.
At the Museum’s first open day in 2017, Byron Reynolds told the County Echo: “Having lived next to the chapel all my life it’s great to see it being carefully maintained and its doors opened to the public. The building is a very important part of the community.”
In the intervening years he and his wife Janet have opened the Museum to thousands of Pembrokeshire Coast National Park walkers, residents, local schoolchildren, and – in summer 2022 – artists to create the artworks shown in the Museum’s first book.
The Museum has grown into a vibrant and valued part of the Trefin landscape. As a group of volunteers we are determined that Trefin Museum will continue to grow as an educational resource and that it will remain open to all, with further initiatives to help to bring closer together local communities, the building and Nature.
