Collections: History

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The Historic Buildings

A Brief History of St Fagans

"[The task] was not to create a museum which preserved the dead past under glass but one which uses the past to link up with the present to provide a strong foundation and a healthy environment for the future of their people."

(Iorwerth C. Peate, 1948).

Welsh Fare

Gwen John: Part 1 ‘It’s tone that matters’

Dre-fach Felindre and the Woollen Industry

The Wrexham Tailor’s Quilt, 1842-52

Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Caernarfon blankets

Charles Horace Watkins Inventor Extraordinaire

Working Abroad - Welsh Emigration

Wales in Space

Underground Bible

Brethyn Llwyd

Yama – The mining art of Sakubei Yamamoto

Wheels in Wales

Draper's Shop

From Industry to Industrial Heritage

Canary Girls

Fire in the Mill

The Prince of Wales Investiture chair

Children in Mines

The Tynewydd Mining Disaster

Coal Miners' Union Badges

Coal seams and copper: W.E. Logan and the geological map

The old clock at the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, north Wales

Pithead Baths

Welsh colliery horses

The industrial legacy of David Davies

When Welsh ships sailed the seas

Wales – a modern maritime nation?

Wales - the first industrial nation of the World

'Miners lives at 5½p each': The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster

Dinorwig '69: End of the line for one of the largest slate quarries in the world

Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive

St Dwynwen's Day

Chair and Crown

Christmas customs

Owain Glyndŵr and a timber from Sycharth

Welsh bard falls in the battle fields of Flanders

The Dialects of Wales

The Quilt Collection

History of the Welsh Eisteddfodau

Folk Tales

Folk Songs

Historic Photography

Images of Industry