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Exhibitions This Week

Colourful self-portrait oil painting by Vincent Van Gogh

Exhibition: Art of the Selfie

National Museum Cardiff
16 March 2024 - 26 January 2025
10am-5pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Pay What You Can
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Exhibition: Lily’s Fossil Footprint

National Museum Cardiff
Suitability: Families
Cost: Free
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Exhibition: The Fossil Swamp

National Museum Cardiff
18 May 2019 – 2 March 2025
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Reframing Pictorn

Exhibition: Reframing Picton

National Museum Cardiff
1 August 2022 – 12 January 2025
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Édouard Manet's portrait of Jules Dejouy.

Exhibition: Revealing Édouard Manet’s Portrait of Monsieur Jules Dejouy

National Museum Cardiff
17 January 2023 – 1 January 2025
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag.

Exhibition: Art 100

National Museum Cardiff
From 8 August 2023
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Exhibition: The Great Welsh Road Trip

National Waterfront Museum
25 November 2023 – 2 June 2024
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Exhibition: House to Home

National Waterfront Museum
12 January–28 April 2024
Last chance to see
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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A person wearing red shorts is stood on a stack of logs, they are bending over and they are holding bark over their left leg, there's bark already covering their right leg

Exhibition: New Collections: Go Home Polish

National Museum Cardiff
From 27 January 2024
Suitability: Adults
Cost: Free
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Black and white photograph of four women in 1920s clothes holding a petition on the steps of a grand building

Exhibition: Petitioning for Peace

St Fagans National Museum of History
9 March–15 September 2024
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Exhibition: Ours To Tell

National Waterfront Museum
16 March–26 August 2024
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Events and Talks This Week

Event: Demonstrations

National Slate Museum
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Event: Cuppa and a Paper

National Wool Museum
Wednesdays- fortnightly
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Finger tips touching grey stone engraved with red letters

Talk: Audio Described Tours: at the National Roman Legion Museum.

National Roman Legion Museum
24 May & 6 September 2024
2.30pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Young boy wearing a Roman helmet.

Event: Quiet afternoons at the National Roman Legion Museum

National Roman Legion Museum
17 April, 15 May, 19 June, 17 July, 21 August & 18 September 2024
3pm-5pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
Booking: Drop in
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Event: STREIC! 1984-1985 STRIKE!

Big Pit National Coal Museum
1 March 2024 – 1 March 2025
9.30am-4.30am
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Event: Van Gogh Afternoon Tea

National Museum Cardiff
From 16 March 2024
12.00; 13.30; 15.00
Suitability: All
Cost: £23
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Two children looking at one another in a room holding white fluffy material above their heads.

Event: Clwb Crefft for Children

National Wool Museum
4 May, 15 June, 14 September, 2 November, 7 December
10am-12pm
Suitability: 8+
Cost: £
Booking: Essential
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Event: Story and Rhyme with Menter Gorllewin Sir Gâr

National Wool Museum
20 June; 18 July; 19 September; 17 October; 21 November
1.30pm
Suitability: 0-5 years old
Cost: Free
Booking: Booking is essential. To register, e-mail nia@mgsg.cymru
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St Fagans Castle

Event: St Fagans Castle Ghost Tours

St Fagans National Museum of History
Fully booked
12–25 April 2024
Suitability: 12+
Cost: £20
Booking: www.darkwalestours.co.uk
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Event: St Fagans Ghost Tours

St Fagans National Museum of History
Fully booked
13–26 April 2024
Suitability: 12+
Cost: £20
Booking: www.darkwalestours.co.uk
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A young boy on the high ropes course at St Fagans

Event: CoedLan – High Ropes at St Fagans

St Fagans National Museum of History
13–14, 20–21, 27–28 April & 4–5 May 2024
10.15am, 11.30am, 12.45pm, 3pm, 4.15pm
Suitability: Participants must be at least 110cm tall
Cost: £20
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Event: Quiet Hour at the Museum

National Waterfront Museum
14 April, 5 May & 30 June 2024
3-4pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Event: Story and Rhyme with Menter Gorllewin Sir Gâr

National Wool Museum
18 April 2024
1.30pm
Suitability: Pre-school
Cost: Free
Booking: To register, e-mail nia@mgsg.cymru
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Event: Banner making sessions to celebrate 150th anniversary of Quarrymen's Union

National Slate Museum
19 & 23 April 2024
1pm - 3pm & 7pm -9pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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Event: Ar Lafar- an event for adult learners of Welsh

National Wool Museum
20 April 2024
10am-4pm
Suitability: Adults
Cost: Free entry.
Booking: Some activities are ticketed (some activities are pay what you can- spaces are limited)
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Event: Candlelight Concert - Vivaldi's Four Seasons 

National Waterfront Museum
20 April 2024
6pm
Suitability: 8+
Cost: £17.50-£41
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Event: Candlelight Concert - A Tribute to Queen

National Waterfront Museum
20 April 2024
8.30pm
Suitability: 8+
Cost: £15-£40
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Event: Earth Day – Seed Swap, Talk and more!

National Waterfront Museum
21 April 2024
1 - 3pm
Suitability: All
Cost: Free
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