On Monday, a group of children from the Ukraine visited Narberth Museum.

Thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers, they are spending four weeks in Pembrokeshire organised by the Children's Life Line Charity (South Pembs. link).

The charity offers those affected by the nuclear aftermath, a period of recuperation in uncontaminated areas. The aim is to recharge children's health and wellbeing, as well as having fun!

With this in mind, the group headed straight for the museum's interactive displays. They put together working gears, made a wheel and tried lifting a series of loads using different pulleys. When the hard work was over, they designed and stuck labels on James Williams's bottles and sniffed the inside the 'mystery bottles' to guess the contents.

The children continued their multisensory experience using touch-screen computers to defend the castle, or by choosing to be Owain Glyndwr and storming past the defences. They also dressed up in medieval costume and broke into a sword fight in the Mabinogion woodland story area.

The fun continued in our education room where they created their own 'curly-whirly' James Williams moustaches and designed Victorian-style postcards sending 'Greetings from Narberth' in Ukranian. These will be displayed alongside some of the other creations by children who have taken part in the museum's art and craft activity days, the next of which will be during half-term, with a Hallowe'en theme!

The children from Chernobyl ended their action-packed afternoon with squash, biscuits and souvenirs of a wonderful Welsh day out at Narberth Museum.

FOOTNOTE: The Friends of Narberth Museum have arranged for Keith Johnson to give a talk on 'Pembrokeshire Historic Murders' on Thursday, October 4, at 7 pm, in the museum. Tickets are £4 for the public and £3 for Friends.