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Family Fun at the National Woollen Museum
8 October 2004
The National Woollen Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, celebrates Family Learning Week by launching two new activities aimed at children and families on Saturday 16 October.
Launch of Llwybrau Llafar Sain Ffagan: Welsh Language Teaching Resource
6 October 2004
Oakdale Workmen's Institute, Museum of Welsh Life
Wednesday 6 October 11.00 a.m.
with Alun Pugh, Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport
and Jane Davidson, Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Education & Lifelong Learning
Unveiling "Miner - Votty"
21 September 2004
A painting detailing the inside of a weighing hut at one of Wales' most important slate quarries is to be shown to the public for the first time at Canolfan Maenofferen Centre, Blaenau Ffestiniog this week.
CAERLEON ROMANS CELEBRATE BIG BIRTHDAY!
21 September 2004
The Roman Legion of Caerleon, the Second Augustan Legion, celebrates its 2000th birthday on 23 September 2004, and the Roman Legionary Museum will be on hand to mark this momentous occasion, with a lecture given by noted Roman archaeologist, Mark Hassall.
RECORD SUMMER AT BIG PIT
21 September 2004
Six months after its official relaunch, Big Pit: National Mining Museum of Wales is celebrating its best summer ever, with over 50,000 visitors at the site during the summer months - a 38% increase on the same period last year.
Turner in north Wales, 1799
14 September 2004
on loan from Tate Britain
National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff
2 October 2004 – 9 January 2005
JMW Turner is widely recognised as one of Britain's great landscape painters. His visits to Wales during the first ten years of his career provided the inspiration for some of his most intense and romantic watercolours.