Local ladies celebrated for making a change in society

Visitors to Abergavenny Museum will be able to take a look and find out more about local residents at a new exhibition named Monmouthshire Women Making a Change.

The exhibition displays how local women have played a part in the many movements over the years in which women all over the world have united to redress inequalities and risen to the challenges of changing times.

Monmouthshire Women Making a Change has been curated as a result of previous displays that have taken place at the museum, One Hundred Years of Women's Banners and the donation of documents and artefacts from the Abergavenny Peace Movement. Museum volunteers Katrina Gass, Bethan Hopkins, Hannah James and Laura Dixon have worked with local groups, including Crafty Women and Love Zimbabwe and key individuals from Monmouthshire to curate the exhibition.

Sections of interest include Suffrage, wartime, the 1980s peace movements, women's support groups and examples of local women who have made a significant individual contribution to these movements.

Rachael Rogers, Curator of Abergavenny Museum said, 'The exhibition includes displays on many areas of history that have made an enormous impact on the world such as The First World War and Suffrage movement. These themes are particularly relevant in the coming year as 2017- 18 is the commemoration period of the end of the First World War an event that was such a catalyst for change in women's lives and the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act which began to include women in the voting system. We plan to have many more events and activities at the Museum in coming months to celebrate this fantastic exhibition.'

The exhibition has been generously supported by Eridge Park (The Nevill Estate), Hartsheath Charitable Trust and Gabb and Co.

Women Making a Change exhibition will be on display until March 11^th 2018. For more information about the exhibition and forthcoming events call into the museum, telephone 01873 854282, visit the Facebook Page 'Abergavenny Museum', or Twitter account @abermuseum