A PARTY has been held at Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, to celebrate the start of building work on the new development which will see the museum extend into the building next door.

There were presentations by Alice Briggs and Carrie Canham, museum curator, followed by a screening of Singing in the Rain.

Pictured outside the old Boots store, where the new extension will be, looking at plans of the new entrance to the museum are: Carrie Canham, curator; Vicky Kearney, RPD Construction community liaison officer; Alice Briggs, deputy curator; Dafydd Tomos of George and Tomos Architects and Lionel Madden, chairman of the Friends of Ceredigion Museum.