Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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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.[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 (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)[2]
- Michael Houlihan (2003–10)[3]
- David Anderson (2010–)[4]
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