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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, branded as simply Amgueddfa Cymru (formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and legally National Museum of Wales), is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales: * National Museum Cardiff – formerly the National Museum of Wales * St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff * Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon * National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre near Llandysul * National Slate Museum, Llanberis * National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon * National Waterfront Museum, Swansea In addition to these sites, the organisation runs Oriel y Parc, a gallery of Welsh landscape art in St David's, in partnership with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. The National Collections Centre in Nantgarw is AC-NMW's storage facility. Directors of the National Museum of Wales * William Evans Hoyle (1908–1924) * Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1925–1926) * Sir Cyril Fox (1926–1948) * D. Dilwyn John (1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Waterfront Museum
The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS ( cy, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau) is a museum in Swansea, Wales, forming part of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Construction and development Building and exhibition design was carried out by Wilkinson Eyre and Land Design Studio respectively, following an Architectural Design Competition managed by RIBA Competitions."Tourism hopes as new museum opens" ''BBC News'', 17 October 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2016. The £33.5 million museum, which secured funding from the and £11 million from the |
St Fagans Museum Main Building 2018
ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy and theology by St. Thomas Aquinas * St or St., abbreviation of "State", especially in the name of a college or university Businesses and organizations Transportation * Germania (airline) (IATA airline designator ST) * Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated as State Transport * Sound Transit, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Washington state, US * Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont) (railroad reporting mark ST) * Suffolk County Transit, or Suffolk Transit, the bus system serving Suffolk County, New York Other businesses and organizations * Statstjänstemannaförbundet, or Swedish Union of Civil Servants, a trade union * The Secret Team, an alleged covert alliance between the CIA and American industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Southall
Anna Catherine Southall (born 9 June 1948) served as Director of the National Museum Wales from 1998 to 2002. She was educated at The Mount School, York and the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970).‘SOUTHALL, Anna Catherine’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015 She was Vice Chairman of the Big Lottery Fund The National Lottery Community Fund, legally named the Big Lottery Fund, is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for "good causes". Since 2004 it has awarded over £9 billion to ... from 2006 to 2014. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Southall, Anna Catherine 1948 births Living people People educated at The Mount School, York Alumni of the University of East Anglia People associated with the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales Directors of museums in the United Kingdom Women museum directors Officers of the Order of the British Empire British women curators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Ford (curator)
Colin John Ford (born 1934) is a British photographic curator, historian of photography, and former museum director. He has written a number of books on the history of photography. Life Ford was educated at University College, Oxford University. He began his career in the theatre. He has been a director and broadcaster. Between 1972 and 1982 he was Keeper of Film and Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He then became the first director of the UK National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford (later to become the National Media Museum). From 1992 he was Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales. Ford has interviewed contemporary photographers such as Don McCullin. He also gives lectures on the history of photography. Until 2010, he was Chairman of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. He is Vice-President of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust and Chairman of the Peel Entertainment Group. Books * ''An Early Victorian Album: The Phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Bassett (geologist)
Douglas Anthony Bassett (11 August 1927 – 8 November 2009) was a Welsh geologist and a director of the National Museum of Wales from 1977 to 1985. Bassett was born in Llwynhendy, near Llanelli, in industrial Carmarthenshire as the son of a coal miner. He took a degree in Geology at Aberystwyth University in 1952, and after obtaining his doctorate in the same discipline, lectured in Geology at Glasgow University from 1952 to 1959. Having joined the National Museum of Wales as keeper of Geology in 1959, he was appointed in the role of Director in 1977 until 1985, when ill-health forced him to retire. Career From 1952 to 1959, Bassett taught in the Geology Department at Glasgow University and at the same time studied the geology of north and mid-Wales, especially the Bala district,The stratigraphy of the Bala district, Merionethshire – Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, February 1966, v. 122:219–269, doi:10.1144/gsjgs.122.1.021/ref> in collaboration with Alwyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
