Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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Artwork Venice, Palazzo Dario, A Calm, Sunlight at Vernon Similar St Fagans National History M, Big Pit National Coal Mus, National Waterfront Museum, National Slate Museum, National Roman Legion M

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales:

National Museum Cardiff

St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff

Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon

National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre near Llandysul

National Slate Museum, Llanberis

National Roman Legionary 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.

Rhagor (Welsh: more), an online supplement to the physical institutions, contains information on items in the museum collection and images of further items which are not on display.

Directors of the National Museum of Wales

William Evans Hoyle (1908–24)

Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1925–6)

Sir Cyril Fox (1926–48)

D. Dilwyn John (1948–68)

Gwyn Jones (1968–77)

Douglas Bassett (1977–85)

David W. Dykes (1986–89)

Alastair Wilson (1989–93)

Colin Ford (1993–8)

Anna Southall (1998–2002)

Michael Houlihan (2003–10)

David Anderson (2010–)

References

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales Wikipedia

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