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Museums & Galleries in Cardiff
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Cardiff — think Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier, Wartime Shelters and Cardiff Story Museum — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
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Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier
Firing Line is an accredited museum inside Cardiff Castle telling the story of the Welsh soldier across 300 years, from Waterloo and Rorke's Drift through to Iraq and Afghanistan....
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0 mi from Cardiff
Wartime Shelters
Hidden within the walls of Cardiff Castle are tunnels that served as air-raid shelters during the Second World War. More than 1800 people could once shelter here, reached via speci...
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0.3 mi from Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff sits in the heart of Cardiff's elegant civic centre, offering world-class art and natural history, with admission free. It houses Wales's national art, geol...
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1.4 mi from Cardiff
Techniquest
Techniquest is a science discovery centre located in Cardiff Bay, Wales. It gives visitors a hands-on approach to science and includes a science theatre, a planetarium, and an exhi... — Wikipedia
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3.9 mi from Cardiff
Cider Making Display
The Cider-Making Display sits within one of the Museum's earliest galleries, a listed building originally created in the 1960s to show agricultural vehicles and now home to a colle...
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4 mi from Cardiff
Stryd Lydan Barn
Stryd Lydan Barn is a historic cruck and timber-framed barn, formed by linking two separate structures, the earliest dating from about 1550. Here you can see wattled walls made fro...
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4 mi from Cardiff
Esgair Moel Woollen Mill
Esgair Moel Woollen Mill is a working woollen mill originally built in Powys in 1760 and moved to St Fagans Museum in 1949. Inside, the Museum weaver still makes blankets, shawls a...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Kennixton
Kennixton is a historic Gower farmhouse, first built in 1610 and later extended, now rebuilt at St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. You'll see the farmhouse furnished as it might have loo...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Penrhiw Chapel
Penrhiw Chapel is a Grade 2 listed Unitarian chapel, originally built as a barn in Drefach-Felindre, Carmarthenshire, and moved to St Fagans in 1956. Inside, you'll find a plain, u...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Abernodwydd Farmhouse
Abernodwydd Farmhouse is a timber-framed, thatched-roof building originally raised in 1678 near Llangadfan, Powys, and later moved to St Fagans. Inside, you can explore the smoke-b...
4.2 mi from Cardiff
Melin Bompren Corn Mill
Melin Bompren is a water-powered corn mill, originally located at Cross Inn, Cardiganshire, Wales, but now at the St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff. — Wikipedia
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4.2 mi from Cardiff
Pigsty
The Pigsty is a small, circular stone building originally built around 1800 at a farm near Pontypridd, moved to St Fagans and opened to the public in 1977. Its domed, beehive-like...
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4.2 mi from Cardiff
Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf (farmhouse)
Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf is a late-medieval cruck-framed hall-house, originally built in 1508 in Llangynhafal, Clwyd, and later moved to St Fagans in 1956 before opening to the public...
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4.2 mi from Cardiff
Nantwallter Cottage
Nantwallter Cottage is a reconstructed 18th-century farmworker's cottage, originally built around 1770 in Taliaris, Carmarthenshire, and now rebuilt at St Fagans. Inside, you can s...
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