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Building work on the Vulcan Hotel enters a new phase
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2023-01-06Building work on the Vulcan Hotel at St Fagans National Museum of History has entered a new phase. The scaffolding has recently been removed from the roof, and work will shortly begin on the interior of the building.
The museum’s historic building team began re-erecting the iconic Victorian pub from Cardiff in 2020 and building work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023. The pub will be open to the public in 2024.
The Vulcan was built on Adam Street in Cardiff in 1853 to serve the mainly Irish community of what was then called New Town. During its long history it saw major changes as Cardiff grew to become an industrial powerhouse and then the nation’s capital, finally closing its doors for the last time in 2012.
Amgueddfa Cymru’s historic building team then dismantled the famous Cardiff landmark brick by brick before moving it to St Fagans in 2012.
When it is open, The Vulcan will be displayed as it was in 1915, an important year for the pub. At this time, it had just undergone a major refurbishment that saw its distinctive green and brown tiles added to the frontage, as well as a redesign of its interior. The Museum are looking at how the Vulcan Hotel will be run, and they plan to sell beer from the pub in the future.
The project of re-erecting the Vulcan has received financial support from the Simon Gibson Charitable Trust and the Swire Trust towards the construction, skills training and participatory elements of the project.
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