Mid Wales museum granted wedding licence
A museum in Mid Wales has been granted a licence to hold weddings and civil partnerships.
Powysland Museum in Welshpool, which is run by Powys County Council, has been given the licence in a bid to get more use out of the building.
Councillor Graham Brown, the council's cabinet member for culture, said: "The council is looking at innovative ways to make greater use of its many buildings and Powysland Museum will make an attractive and unusual venue for couple looking for something different.
"The museum is housed in a 19th century warehouse built on the side of the Montgomery Canal in Welshpool. It is a very imposing building, which has been carefully restored and renovatedto house the Powysland Museum collections of local archaeology and social history.
"Situated in the tranquil and lovely canal wharf, it should make a lovely backdrop to the ceremony and to any photographs of the special day."
Two areas can be used for the ceremony, the museum's temporary exhibition gallery which holds up to 25 people and between April and October the canopy area outside the museum's entrance next to the Montgomery Canal.
Councillor Brown said that the museum's reception area, as well as the Canal Wharf, can be used for drinks and canapés afterwards.
