Museums
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Free to enter, home to 80 million specimens and the blue whale skeleton known as Hope — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, earthquake simulator included.
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The world’s first national public museum, free to enter since 1759, and home to the Rosetta Stone — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, including the once-in-a-millennium Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.
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A Grade II-listed tinplate warehouse fused with a glass-and-slate extension, built to hold 300 years of Welsh industry on the exact dock where much of it once left the country.
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A gallery built from wool, wood and stone dust, holding part of a major British painter’s collection — and free to walk into on your way from the car park to St Davids Cathedral.
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The last home of Wales’s most famous poet, perched on a cliff over the Tâf estuary — and the clifftop shed where he wrote until the day he left for New York and never came back.
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Step into a working Welsh woollen mill turned museum, where a 1902 fire, a world war, and a nation’s identity were all spun from the same thread.
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A free museum with an Egyptian pharaoh’s sarcophagus in the basement, kept by law exactly as its architect owner left it in 1837.