His father’s workshop
This room, where Henry spent many happy hours learning to be a shoemaker, depicts the scene well over a hundred years ago with life size models of Henry and his father. The bed at the back of the room is where Henry slept whilst studying round the clock to go to college. The tools and two of the workman’s benches are original.

The kitchen
Here, ‘seven persons had their meals every day in that little ten-foot kitchen, where all the food was cooked and the family lived. There was no room for us all to sit at our table; neither the table nor the room was big enough. What then? The answer is simple; we took our meals in relays.’ Old Memories, Autobiography by Sir Henry Jones.

The kitchen contains many objects from the period, including a clock made in about 1800 by Moses Evans the local clockmaker.

The bedroom
In here you will see the limited amount of space available for six people to sleep. There were only two beds, so Henry and his brother William often slept next door.

Exhibition room
In this room, which was originally Henry’s grandparents’ bedroom, are objects that illustrate life during Henry’s childhood in Llangernyw: a typical Welsh rural community in the late 19th Century.

Garden
This has been restored to show the types of plants, herbs and fruit trees that were common in cottage gardens in the latter part of the nineteenth century.