Museum marks Hughes anniversary

Heptonstall Museum reopens for the 2010 season today with an exhibition which looks at the poet and his work.

Mr Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd in 1930 and the landscape of the Calder Valley had a lifelong influence on his work.

The exhibition, which is entitled Poetry of a Laureate's Landscape, explores his early life and looks at the poems inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Calder Valley.

Alongside the exhibition there will also be a series of guided walks, which take visitors to locations in and around the village of Heptonstall which inspired particular poems.

There is also a display by the children of Heptonstall School, who have created their own miniature museum with a musical theme.

The exhibition has been produced in partnership with the Elmet Trust.

This year marks 80 years since Ted Hughes's birth and is being commemorated with a memorial at Westminster in Poets' Corner.

Heptonstall Museum is open Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays from 11am to 4pm.