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
A Welsh Government sponsored body (WGSB) ( cy, Corff (plural: Cyrff) a Noddir gan Lywodraeth Cymru, CNLC) is a non-departmental public body directly funded by the Welsh Government. Under the Government of Wales Act 1998 the bodies were sponsored ...
that comprises seven museums in
Wales:
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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 Gov ...
– formerly the National Museum of Wales
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St Fagans National Museum of History,
Cardiff
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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 ...
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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. The ...
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National Wool Museum
The National Wool Museum, located in Drefach Felindre, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire is part of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.
Background
Historically and into the 19th century, the woollen industry in Wales, including spinning and wea ...
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Dre-fach Felindre near
Llandysul
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National Slate Museum,
Llanberis
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National Roman Legion Museum
The National Roman Legion Museum (Wales) ( cy, Amgueddfa Lleng Rufeinig Cymru) is a museum in Caerleon, near Newport, south-east Wales. It is one of three Roman sites in Caerleon, along with the Baths museum and the open-air ruins of the amphit ...
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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 Roman ...
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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
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 ...
Authority. The National Collections Centre in
Nantgarw is AC-NMW's storage facility.
Directors of the National Museum of Wales
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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 w ...
(1908–1924)
* Sir
Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales an ...
(1925–1926)
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Cyril Fox
Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882 – 15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist and museum director.
Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and subsequently served as director from 1926 to 1948. His most ...
(1926–1948)
* D. Dilwyn John (1948–1968)
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Gwyn Jones (1968–1977)
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Douglas Bassett (1977–1985)
* David W. Dykes (1986–1989)
* Alastair Wilson (1989–1993)
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Colin Ford
Colin Ford (born September 12, 1996) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Wheeler in '' Daybreak'', Joe McAlister in '' Under the Dome'', the voice of Jake on ''Jake and the Never Land Pirates'', Mikey on ''Can You Teach My Al ...
(1993–1998)
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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
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