Press Releases

An exciting programme of exhibitions and events awaits visitors to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ seven museums across Wales in 2022. From wildlife photography, and five centuries of art in Cardiff to street food in Swansea and stories from the Windrush Generation Cymru touring Wales, there is something for everyone!

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has bought a unique artwork by two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, Bernd and Hilla Becher, thanks to support from Art Fund and the Henry Moore Foundation. The German artists are best known for their typologies –photographs of a single type of industrial structure, often organised into grids.

Following the success of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales project Objects of Comfort, during the Covid pandemic, new digital resources have now been developed to connect people living in care homes and those at risk of social isolation with Wales’ national collections.

The portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton has been taken down from the Faces of Wales gallery at National Museum Cardiff and will be kept in the Museum’s stores before being redisplayed and reinterpreted over the coming months.

A new exhibition featuring photographs from the personal collection of photographer David Hurn opens today (23 October) in the photography gallery at National Museum Cardiff.

New exhibition features five centuries of art and displays
major new acquisitions for the first time