Press Releases

Big Pit’s Mining Craft Apprenticeship Scheme goes from strength to strength, and now in its third year, another three new Mining Craft Apprenticeship opportunities are currently being advertised.Visitors to the National Coal Museum in Blaenavon comment positively on the knowledge of the Miner Guides who bring the experience of working underground to life. Many have first-hand experience and the Museum is looking to pass this knowledge on to its newest recruits.

As a way of ensuring that we celebrate LGBTQ+ history outside of February’s LGBTQ+ History Month, National Museum Cardiff and Pride Cymru have teamed up to launch a new series of volunteer-led tours around the museum’s finest artwork, looking at the collection through a queer lens. The first free tour will be held on Sunday 15 March at National Museum Cardiff with sessions available in English and Welsh.

Full steam ahead for popular museum event relaunch!                                                                     

Corporate Sponsorship deal renewed

One of the most original and impressive examples of 18^th century landscape painting – The Fortress of Königstein Castle from the North (1756–8) by Venetian master painter Bernardo Bellotto, is on display at National Museum Cardiff from 28 January – 10 May 2020 as part of a UK-wide tour by the National Gallery, London.

National Museum Cardiff has bid an emotional farewell to Dippy the Diplodocus, the Natural History Museum London’s famous dinosaur skeleton cast, who has been staying at the museum in Cardiff for the past three months. (19 October and 26 January.)