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Last Chance to See Exhibitions at National Museum Cardiff
Date:
2005-12-12There's only a few weeks left to catch two special exhibitions at National Museum Cardiff.
Wales at Work and Victorian Dreamers: Welsh Collections of 19th century art will both close on 8 January.
The Wales at Work exhibition celebrates the opening of the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, which tells the story of industry and innovation in Wales. Both the National Waterfront Museum and National Museum Cardiff are part of the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales family, and the exhibition has been a way of emphasising this link.
The exhibition includes oil paintings and watercolours by such artists as Thomas Hornor, Paul Sandby, Ceri Richards, Josef Herman and L.S. Lowry, showing important Welsh industries since the Industrial Revolution, including coal, slate, the metal industries, shipping and transport. The exhibition shows how industrial views developed from being part of the romantic landscape tradition into a subject matter in their own right.
Victorian Dreamers: Welsh Collections of 19th century art is a very different exhibition, bringing together superb examples of Victorian art from both private and the national collections. Many of the pictures on show have not previously been seen in public, including Pre-Raphaelite works by Holman Hunt, Millais, Rossetti and Burne-Jones; neo-Classical paintings by Leighton, Moore and Alma Tadema and landscapes by Brett, Watts and Inchbold.
An exhibition of the shortlisted work for Artes Mundi, Welsh International Visual Art Prize, opens at National Museum Cardiff on 11 February 2006.
National Museum Cardiff will be closed on 24-26 December and 1-2 January 2006.
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is the new name for the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, which administers seven national museums across Wales: National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans: National History Museum, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Big Pit: National Coal Museum, Blaenafon, National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, National Slate Museum, Llanberis and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
Entry to all Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales sites is free, thanks to the support of the Welsh Assembly Government.
For more details, please contact
Gwenllïan Carr,
Head of Press and Public Relations, Amgueddfa Cymru — National Museum Wales
Phone: 029 2057 3175 / 07974 205 849
Email: gwenllian.carr@museumwales.ac.uk