Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

"National Museum of Wales" redirects here. For this organisation's main site in Cardiff, see National Museum Cardiff.

Cardiff

Blaenavon

Nantgarw

Dre-fach Felindre

Llanberis

Caerleon

Swansea

St David's

The locations of the branches of (and other sites connected to) Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

File:The Cymmrodorion Society Museum For Wales 1876.jpg

Poster by The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion suggesting the formation of the National Museum Wales; June 1876.

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–)

External links

• National Museum Wales website
• Rhagor