Museum of Welsh Life Overview
The Museum of Welsh Life, which is located on the outskirts of Cardiff, offers visitors an insight into how life in Wales used to be. Opened in July 1948, this open-air museum explains Wales's history over the past 500 years and allows visitors to imagine how rural life would have been over the centuries. The museum is set in 40 hectares (100 acres) of parkland, on the estate of the Elizabethan mansion, St Fagans Castle, a 16th-century manor house, which was donated to the people of Wales in 1947 by the Earl of Plymouth. Today, St Fagans, which has been refurbished in the style of a late-Victorian Welsh mansion, houses an exhibition on Welsh life through the ages. Other impressive buildings at the site include a chapel, a village store, several 19th-century farmhouses and a Victorian schoolhouse.
Air: Cardiff International Airport. Rail: Train: Cardiff Central Station. Road: Bus: Public services. Car: The museum is signposted from junction 33 of the M4 motorway and can be accessed from the A4232.
Contact Addresses
Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff CF5 6XB, UK
Tel: (029) 2057 3500
Website: www.nmgw.ac.uk
Location
United Kingdom
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