Home FrontMuseum

Adrian Hughes opened the Home Front Museum on New Street in Llandudno in September 2000, filling a former wartime auxiliary fire station with a WWII collection he began building at the age of eight after learning an incendiary bomb had fallen on his grandparents' drive. The self-guided museum recreates six years of civilian wartime life through shop fronts, room displays and tableaux, with exhibits covering gas masks, ration books and Dig for Victory food-growing campaigns. Hughes also volunteers for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and has researched the 340 men named on Llandudno's war memorial, tracing graves and contacting descendants abroad. The museum runs seasonally from late March to late October, Monday to Saturday, with family tickets priced at twelve pounds fifty.