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Students dream of French revolution at National Museum Cardiff
A new art exhibition at National Museum Cardiff is the result of a collaborative research project between students from the University of Bristol and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Revolutionary Dreams will be on display from Saturday 24 March until Sunday 9 September 2012.
INDUSTRIAL INSPIRATIONS
Coleg Menai Student’s Art Collaboration with the National Slate Museum
Line up for UK’s biggest contemporary art prize announced
Artists from Cuba, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Slovenia, Sweden, and the UK on shortlist for Artes Mundi 5
Unseasonal wild flowers in Cardiff
This year’s mild winter weather has allowed an amazing 63 wild flowers to be found in flower, which is much more than the normal average of 20-30 species. A wild flower hunt around Cardiff by Dr Tim Rich of Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and Dr Sarah Whild of Birmingham University this week (January 2012) showed how warm the winter has been so far.
The Capel Garmon Firedog becomes a permanent museum treasure
One of Wales’s most prized ancient masterpieces is secured by Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
New geological discovery paves the way for further insight into the transport of Stonehenge rocks
A new paper in Archaeology in Wales, produced by Dr Rob Ixer of Leicester University and Dr Richard Bevins of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales confirms, for the first time, the exact origin of some the rhyolite debitage found at Stonehenge. This work could now lead to important conclusions about how stones were transported from Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge.
