Amgueddfa Cymru โ National Museum Wales
Cardiff
Blaenavon
Nantgarw
Dre-fach Felindre
Llanberis
Caerleon
Swansea
St David's
Amgueddfa Cymru โ 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.[1] 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 (1908โ24)
- Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1925โ6)
- Sir Cyril Fox (1926โ48)
- D. Dilwyn John (1948โ68)
- Gwyn Jones (1968โ77)
- Douglas Bassett (1977โ85)
- David W. Dykes (1986โ89)
- Alastair Wilson (1989โ93)
- Colin Ford (1993โ8)
- Anna Southall (1998โ2002)[2]
- Michael Houlihan (2003โ10)[3]
- David Anderson (2010โ)[4]
Notes
- โ Oriel y Parc, Amgueddfa Cymru โ National Museum Wales, retrieved 9 August 2015
- โ Amgueddfa Cymru โ National Museum Wales (corporate author) (2007), Amgueddfa Cymru โ National Museum Wales: Celebrating the first 100 years, Cardiff: National Museum Wales Books, p. 182
- โ Price, Karen (13 January 2010), "National Museum Wales director Michael Houlihan takes up post in New Zealand", WalesOnline, retrieved 12 August 2015
- โ New director general for National Museum Wales, BBC News, 12 July 2010, retrieved 12 August 2015
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