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Inside the Museum of Cardiff. Cardiff Council had been seeking the permanent use of the Old Library since the closure of the Cardiff Centre for Visual Arts in 2000. [7]The Cardiff Strategic Tourism Growth Area Action Plan, supported by Cardiff Council and Wales Tourist Board (now Visit Wales), looked at major elements essential to developing Cardiff as a tourism destination, and came with £2 ...
The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1905, with its royal charter granted in 1907. [2] Part of the bid for Cardiff to obtain the National Museum for Wales included the gift of the Cardiff Museum Collection, then known as "Welsh Museum of Natural History, Archaeology and Art," which was formally handed over in 1912.
St Fagans National Museum of History (/ ˈ f æ ɡ ə n z / FAG-ənz; Welsh: Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people.
La Parisienne (English: The Parisian) is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.The work, which was one of seven presented by Renoir at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, is often referred to as The Blue Lady (French: La Dame en Bleu) and is one of the centre-pieces of the National Museum's art ...
Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier; M. Museum of Cardiff; N. National Museum Cardiff; P. Pierhead Building; W. Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum;
The Cardiff Free Library, Museum and Schools for Science and Art (including an art gallery) was opened on 31 May 1882 by the Mayor of Cardiff, Alfred Thomas. The day was declared a public holiday, [ 8 ] with the town's shops closed and a procession of over 5000 people making their way through the streets to the library, then dispersing at the ...
The House for the Future (south) The House for the Future (north) showing the alpine garden roof The House for the Future, sometimes called House of the Future and more recently renamed Ty Gwyrdd (Welsh for 'Green House'), is a modern house located in the St Fagans National History Museum on the western edge of Cardiff, Wales.
Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier (Welsh: Tanio llinell: Amgueddfa Castell Caerdydd o'r Milwr Cymreig) is an accredited, charitable museum which exhibits the collections of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Royal Welsh. It occupies the lower floor of the interpretation centre at Cardiff Castle.