What's On at National Museum Cardiff

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Event: Cuppa and a Paper

Wednesdays- fortnightly

12pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Interior of the public bar in The Vulcan Hotel

Event: Visit The Vulcan Hotel

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Little Lambs

2 December 2025

10.15am-12.15pm

Suitability: Families

Cost: Free

Booking: Essential

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Finger tips touching grey stone engraved with red letters

Event: Audio Described Tours: at the National Roman Legion Museum.

Available Wednesday to Friday, please contact us in advance to arrange a booking

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

Booking: Essential

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Event: GRAFT Garden - Volunteering Fridays

Every Friday

10-3

Suitability: Everyone welcome

Cost: Free

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Exhibition: Gwaith Merched

8 March–15 December 2025

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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An abstract image of a face all made of different fabric, there's pink background, the face is made of striped material and the eyes are green with a triangular orange note

Exhibition: Ancestral Libations Pt II-Welsh Wool, Slavery and Identity

1 April 2025 – 28 February 2026

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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A black and white photograph showing several people of West Indian descent, dressed smartly in suits, ties and wearing hats in a 1950s fashion, against railings in Victoria Station.

Exhibition: Picture Post: A Twentieth Century Icon

24 May–9 November 2025

Last chance to see

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Exhibition: unCHunASunEDunLOunSSunES - By Sean Edwards

From 24 May 2025

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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A close-up of 1.45m repurposed glass slumped over details of collection items

Exhibition: Sophie Mak-Schram and collaborators: To Shift a Stone

14 June 2025 – 15 February 2026

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Museum ExplorAR: A living guide to the galleries

From 1 July 2025

Suitability: All

Cost: £7 per hour

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Exhibition: Hip Hop: A Welsh Story

19 July 2025 – 22 February 2026

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Gold frames with three turners works mounted on a blue wall

Exhibition: Celebrating Turner 250

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: One Stop Info Shop

1 December 2025

11am - 1pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Course: Make a Corsage Brooch

29 November 2025

01.11.25: 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm. 29.11.25: 1.30-3.30pm

Suitability: 12+

Cost: £15pp

Booking: Essential

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Event: Create a Bobble Hat

29 November, 3 & 9 December 2025

29.11.25: 10.30am-1pm; 03.12.25 & 09.12.25: 10.30am-1pm

Suitability: 12+

Cost: £45 pp

Booking: Essential

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Event: To Shift a Stone: Held Fast Running Club

15 November, 6 December 2025, 3 & 10 January 2026

10:30am

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

Booking: Drop in

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Exhibition: Artes Mundi 11

24 October 2025 – 1 March 2026

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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group tour behind scenes at National Slate Museum

Event: Next Steps Tours: Collection Centre Tours

30 October, 1 November, 18 December, 29 & 31 January, 26 February, 26 & 28 March.

1:00pm - 2:30pm & 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Suitability: 5+

Cost: Free

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Event: To Shift a Stone: Reading Circle

2 & 16 November 2025

2pm - 4pm

Suitability: Adults

Cost: Free

Booking: Essential - perspectives@museumwales.ac.uk

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Exhibition: The Community Shawl Project - connecting the stories of our communities

4–29 November 2025

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Concert Series 2025

From 5 November 2025

Suitability: All

Cost: Free event

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Event: St Fagans Ghost Tours

Fully booked

6–27 November 2025

Suitability: 12+

Cost: £20

Booking: darkwalestours.co.uk

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Exhibition: Richard Burton Centenary

7 November 2025 – 5 February 2026

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: To Shift a Stone: Where/air listening party

9 November 2025

11:30am-12:30pm,1:15pm-2:15pm

Suitability: Adults

Cost: Free

Booking: Essential - perspectives@museumwales.ac.uk

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Miner guide with visitor standing in front of Big Pit's Headgear

Event: Guided Surface Tours

10 November–19 December 2025

10am-3pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Audio Described Tours at National Museum Cardiff

13 November 2025

13:00

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

Booking: Essential

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Event: St Fagans Castle Ghost Tours

Fully booked

14–28 November 2025

8pm

Suitability: 12+

Cost: £20

Booking: darkwalestours.co.uk

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Event: St Fagans Sketching Group

Fully booked

14 November & 12 December 2025

10.30am-12pm

Suitability: 16+

Cost: Free

Booking: Booking is essential.

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A women banging a drum on a beach while being filmed by a man with a mobile phone.

Course: Capturing Creative Content on a Smartphone

16 November 2025

11am to 4pm

Suitability: 16+

Cost: Free

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Coin from the Caerwent Siliqua Hoard, made at the end of the Roman Empire.

Event: The Fall of Rome; Inspired by Civilisation

18 November 2025

6pm-8pm

Suitability: 18+

Cost: Free

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Event: Dementia Friendly Activity: Honeybees

20 November 2025

1pm - 3.30pm

Suitability: Anyone affected by dementia

Cost: Free

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Talk: Turner at 250 - Gallery Talk

20 November 2025

12pm

Suitability: 12+

Cost: Pay what You Can

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A group of women and their babies participating in a baby class

Event: Little Movers, Little Speakers

21 November & 12 December 2025

10.30am - 11.30am

Suitability: Families

Cost: Free

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Event: Make a Rosette-Brooch

22 November 2025

10.30am-12.30pm ; 1pm-3pm

Suitability: 12+

Cost: £20pp

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Event: The Green Fair

22 & 23 November 2025

Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 10am - 3pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Organ Recital - David Geoffrey Thomas

28 November 2025

13:00

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Post your letter to Father Christmas

29 November 2025

10.30am – 1pm and 2pm-3.30pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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A park with water lagoons and snowflake images

Event: Christmas in the Park

29 November 2025

11am - 4pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Storytime with Siân Corn

29 November 2025

12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Suitability: 3+

Cost: £7

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People making wreaths out of old pieces of fabrics

Event: Rag Wreath Workshop

29 November 2025

12pm & 2pm

Suitability: 3+

Cost: £5

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Event: Christmas Makers Market

29 & 30 November 2025

10am - 4pm

Suitability: All

Cost: Free

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Event: Print it Stamp It Print it - Letterpress Print Christmas Cards

29 November & 6 December 2025

12.30 - 3.30pm

Suitability: Families

Cost: Free

Booking: Drop in

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Event: Christmas Trail: Runaway Reindeer

29 November–23 December 2025

10am - 3pm

Suitability: 4+

Cost: £1

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Course: Christmas Willow Wreaths

Fully booked

30 November 2025

10.30am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm

Suitability: 16+*

Cost: £35 | £30 Concession

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