What's On

Exhibitions

Exhibition: Lily’s Fossil Footprint

Suitability: Families
Cost: Free
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Exhibition: The Fossil Swamp

18 May 2019 – 2 March 2025
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Reframing Pictorn

Exhibition: Reframing Picton

1 August 2022 – 12 January 2025
The exhibition will be open until 9pm on 6 April, 4 May and 1 June
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Édouard Manet's portrait of Jules Dejouy.

Exhibition: Revealing Édouard Manet’s Portrait of Monsieur Jules Dejouy

17 January 2023 – 1 January 2025
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Artes Mundi logo in white text on a yellow background

Exhibition: Artes Mundi 10

20 October 2023 – 25 February 2024
Coming Soon
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Events and Talks

A young woman looking at the dinosaur collection

Event: Extra Time at National Museum Cardiff

First Thursday of each month - click for all dates
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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a young man in a rumble seat wearing a VR headset and with his arms outstretched

Event: Mission: Planet Earth - a VR Experience

From 1 April 2023
10.30am-4pm
Suitability: 13+ years
Cost: £6
Booking: In advance on-line or at the museum (subject to availability)
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Event: Festive Sunday Lunch

13–10 & 17 December 2023
12:00; 1pm or 2pm
Suitability: All
Cost: £20.00 per person
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Event: New Heights: Caribbean Contributions

6 October 2023
6pm-9pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Event: Unknown Wales Conference 2023

7 October 2023
10am - 1pm
Suitability: 12+
Cost: Pay what you can. Suggested donation £5.
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Night Blowing Cactus

Course: Botanical Illustration

Fully booked
11 November 2023
10.30am-4pm
Suitability: 16+*
Cost: £75 | £60 concession
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Event: Being Human Festival: Archaeo-Animal Art

11 November 2023
10am - 4pm
Suitability: Families
Cost: Free
Booking: Drop In
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Event: Being Human Festival: In conversation with an AI

17 November 2023
10am - 4pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
Booking: Drop In
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Course: Christmas Botanical Illustration

2 December 2023
10:30 - 4pm
Suitability: 16+*
Cost: £75 | £60 Concession
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Event: Festive Film Screening - 'The Snowman and the Snowdog'

2 & 3 December 2023
Suitability: 3+
Cost: £6
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Digital Events

Open Meeting of the Board of Trustees

23 March–14 December 2023, 10.30am - 1pm

Museum Talks ONLINE : The Red Wall - ENGLISH

5 October 2023, 7pm

Museum Talks ONLINE : Hitchhiking Caribbean molluscs in Wales? - ENGLISH

9 November 2023, 6:00pm

Museum Talks ONLINE: Building Sustainability - ENGLISH

7 December 2023, 7pm