Press Releases
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RECORD SUMMER AT BIG PIT
Turner in north Wales, 1799
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.
Queen of the Night
National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff
7th September – 28th November
A rare 4,000 year old terracotta relief of a Babylonian goddess, nick-named 'The Queen of the Night' and hailed as one of the most important art works from ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) will go on show at the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff on 7th September.
An Art-Accustomed Eye: John Gibbs and art
National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff
18 September 2004 – 16 January 2005
What inspires someone to collect art — money, fame, personal pleasure?
Art collector, psychologist and educationalist, Dr John Gibbs (1912–1996) believed visual art could provide a powerful and meaningful social experience and spent a lifetime establishing collections for this purpose.
The National Museums & Galleries of Wales - future governance arrangements.
The National Museums & Galleries of Wales today (10 September 2004) submitted its paper to the Welsh Assembly Government setting out its views on its future governance arrangements.