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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
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
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
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* National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff ( cy, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh G ...
– formerly the National Museum of Wales
* St Fagans National Museum of History
St Fagans National Museum of History ( ; cy, Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru, links=no), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, cultu ...
, Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a ...
* Big Pit National Coal Museum
Big Pit National Coal Museum ( cy, Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big ...
, Blaenavon
Blaenavon ( cy, Blaenafon) is a town and community in Torfaen county borough, Wales, high on a hillside on the source of the Afon Lwyd. It is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. Th ...
* National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre near Llandysul
Llandysul is a small town and Community (Wales), community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. As a community it consists of the townships of Capel Dewi, Llandysul, Capel Dewi, Horeb, Ceredigion, Horeb, Pontsian, Pren-gwyn, Tregroes, Rhydowen an ...
* National Slate Museum
The National Slate Museum (previously known as the Welsh Slate Museum and the North Wales Quarrying Museum) is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwyn ...
, Llanberis
(; ) is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales. It is a centre for outdoor activities in Snowdonia, including walking, ...
* National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon
Caerleon (; cy, Caerllion) is a town and community in Newport, Wales. Situated on the River Usk, it lies northeast of Newport city centre, and southeast of Cwmbran. Caerleon is of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Rom ...
* National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
In addition to these sites, the organisation runs Oriel y Parc
Oriel may refer to:
Places Canada
* Oriel, a community in the municipality of Norwich, Ontario, Canada
Ireland
* Oriel Park, Dundalk, the home ground of Dundalk FC
* Oriel House, Ballincollig, County Cork
* Kingdom of Oriel (''Airgíalla'' in Ir ...
, a gallery of Welsh landscape art in St David's
St Davids or St David's ( cy, Tyddewi, , "David's house”) is a city and a community (named St Davids and the Cathedral Close) with a cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales, lying on the River Alun. It is the resting place of Saint David, W ...
, in partnership with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park ( cy, Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) is a national park along the Pembrokeshire coast in west Wales.
It was established as a National Park in 1952. It is one of three national parks in Wales, the others be ...
Authority. The National Collections Centre in Nantgarw is AC-NMW's storage facility.
Directors of the National Museum of Wales
*William Evans Hoyle
Dr William Evans Hoyle FRSE (28 January 1855 – 7 February 1926) was a noted British zoologist. A specialist in deep sea creatures he worked on classification and illustrations from the Challenger Expedition from 1882 to 1888.
Life
Hoyle ...
(1908–1924)
* Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1925–1926)
* Sir Cyril Fox (1926–1948)
* D. Dilwyn John (1948–1968)
* Gwyn Jones (1968–1977)
* Douglas Bassett (1977–1985)
* David W. Dykes (1986–1989)
* Alastair Wilson (1989–1993)
* Colin Ford (1993–1998)
* Anna Southall (1998–2002)
* Michael Houlihan (2003–2010)
* David Anderson (2010–)
Visitor numbers
In 2017 over 1.89m visitors attended the National Museum sites. The most popular site for 2017 was St. Fagans and in 2016 the most popular attraction was National Museum Cardiff.Notes
Further reading
* Rhiannon Mason, ''Museums, Nations, Identities: Wales and its National Museums'', Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2007, 256 p.External links
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Welsh Government sponsored bodiesWales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
Museums
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...