Welsh Heritage Project Receives $25,000 Grant
The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project was awarded a $25,000 grant for expansion to their current building in downtown Wymore. This will enable the museum to add extra display space for the many one-of-a-kind artifacts that are being donated.
Since hosting the North America Festival of Wales in 2023, the need for added space was noted by those from across the United States, Canada, and Wales. The board hopes to begin construction in 2025.
Located at 307 South 7th Street in Wymore, the Heritage Project is the only cultural resource in the United States dedicated to interpreting the cultural legacy of Welsh immigrants on the Great Plains. It is an invaluable resource for genealogical and historical research, with the attached, climate-controlled archive, constructed in 2013, that contains an ever-increasing number of sources written or published in the Welsh language. The archive is the only repository of the Welsh-language newspaper, Y Drych, in microfilm format, with issues dating back to 1851. Numerous historical artifacts are held in the Centre and, outside, is the mural entitled “Wales to Nebraska” by David Loewenstein.
Gwenith Closs-Colgrove, president of the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project, said in a statement, “We are most grateful to Gage County Tourism committee and the Board of Supervisors for their continued support of the museum which is the only one in North America dedicated to those who came for land and in addition houses the only Archive for Welsh America. We encourage a visit to our Project to view what has been accomplished since 2001.”
