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'''Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales''', formerly the '''National Museums and Galleries of Wales''', is an umbrella body which comprises seven museums in [[Wales]]:<br />
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*[[National Museum Cardiff]], Glamorgan<br />
*[[St Fagans National Museum of History]], Glamorgan<br />
*[[Big Pit National Coal Museum]] in [[Blaenavon]], Monmouthshire<br />
*[[National Wool Museum]], [[Dre-fach Felindre]] near [[Llandysul]], Cardiganshire<br />
*[[National Slate Museum]], [[Llanberis]], Caernarfonshire<br />
*[[National Roman Legion Museum]] in [[Caerleon]], Monmouthshire<br />
*[[National Waterfront Museum]] in [[Swansea]], Glamorgan<br />
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In addition to these sites, the organisation runs [[Oriel y Parc]], a gallery of Welsh landscape art in [[St David's]], Pembrokeshire, in partnership with the [[Pembrokeshire Coast National Park]] Authority.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.museumwales.ac.uk/4272/|title=Oriel y Parc|publisher=Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales|accessdate=9 August 2015}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The National Collections Centre in [[Nantgarw]] is AC-NMW's storage facility.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:The Cymmrodorion Society Museum For Wales 1876.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Poster by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1876]]<br />
The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1905, with its royal charter granted in 1907. 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. The Cardiff Museum was sharing the building of [[Old Library, Cardiff|Cardiff Library]], and was a sub-department of the library until 1893. It later moved to [[Cathays Park]]. The current ''Amgueddfa Cymru'' was founded around this institution, bringing other museums together.<br />
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The Antiquarian Museum was opened in Caerleon in 1850, became the National Roman Legion Museum when joining 'Agueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales'.<br />
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The Welsh Folk Museum was crated at St Fagans in 1948, and after a number of name-changes it became the St Fagans National Museum of History.<br />
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Of the industrial museums:<br />
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*The North Wales Quarrying Museum opened in 1972, and was later renamed 'the National Slate Museum'<br />
*The Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry opened in 1976, and is now the 'National Wool Museum'<br />
*Big Pit was opened in 1983, as part of the National Museum of Wales.<br />
*The Swansea Industrial and Maritime Museum became the National Waterfront Museum when federated with the other museums<br />
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==The mueums and visitor numbers==<br />
In 2017 over 1.89m visitors attended the National Museum sites. The most popular site for 2017 was St Fagans and in 2016 the most popular attraction was National Museum Cardiff.<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|+Museum visitor numbers<ref name="wales-tourism">{{cite web|url=https://gov.wales/docs/caecd/research/2018/180823-visitor-attractions-survey-2017-summary-en.pdf|format=pdf|title=Visits to tourist attractions in Wales 2017|publisher=Visit Wales|accessdate=7 September 2018}}</ref><br />
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! Museum<br />
! Visitor numbers (2017)<br />
! Image<br />
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| [[St Fagans National Museum of History]]<br />
|{{increase}} 553,090<br />
| [[File:St Fagans Museum Main Building 2018.jpg|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[National Museum Cardiff]]<br />
|{{Increase}} 539,550 <br />
|[[File:Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.JPG|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[National Waterfront Museum]]<br />
|{{increase}} 268,622 <br />
|[[File:National Waterfront Museum (19125415205).jpg|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[National Slate Museum]] <br />
|{{increase}} 145,969 <br />
|[[File:National Slate Museum from above.jpg|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Big Pit National Coal Museum]] <br />
|{{increase}} 141,969<br />
|[[File:Big Pit, Blaenavon.jpg|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[National Roman Legion Museum]]<br />
|{{increase}} 70,021<br />
|[[File:Amgueddfa'r Lleng Rhufeinig.JPG|125px]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[National Wool Museum]]<br />
|{{increase}} 36,909<br />
|[[File:Welsh National Wool Museum.jpg|125px]]<br />
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| colspan="8" style="text-align: left;" | <center><small>'''Source:''' Visits to Tourist Attractions in Wales 2017</small><ref name="wales-tourism"/></center><br />
|}<br />
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==Outside links==<br />
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*[http://museum.wales National Museum Wales]<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Mason, Rhiannon: 'Museums, Nations, Identities: Wales and its National Museums' (University of Wales Press, 2007) p 256 ISBN 0708319726<br />
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