Press Releases

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.

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.

On Wednesday 8 September, Welsh Assembly Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport Alun Pugh will visit the Welsh Slate Museum at Llanberis.

1.00pm 24.08.2004

Those of us old enough to recall town centre cinemas, usherettes and thumping organ music will remember with fondness the 'pictures' or the 'flicks' that dominated Wales in grandiose Deco cinemas, village halls and Workmen's Institute for the bulk of the twentieth century. Tomorrow, the Oakdale Workmen's Institute at the Museum of Welsh Life will open its Picture House to visitors for the first time since its re-erection in 1995 and for the first time since the 1960s when the last celluloid frames flickered across the screen and the picture house closed its doors for the very last time.

Today, 13th August, the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (NMGW) reaffirmed its commitment to improve its collections facilities, after confirming how a £3.5 million grant from the Welsh Assembly Government is to be spent.

Today, 13th August, the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (NMGW) reaffirmed its commitment to improve its facilities at the Welsh Slate Museum, after confirming how a £3.5 million grant from the Welsh Assembly Government is to be spent.