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Amgueddfa Cymru holds almost 1 million items that tell us about life in Wales, from when people lived in caves 250,000 years ago, to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Many of these objects are of huge financial value, others are simple and everyday, significant for the insights they give to the daily lives of the people who made them.
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A selection of folk narratives from the extensive collections in the sound archive at St Fagans
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Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales operates seven national museums across Wales.
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A selection of art works from Art Collections Online.
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Articles: The Caves at Cefn: Tales of strange creatures and evidence of Wales's earliest humans.
7 March 2013[image: Pontnewydd Cave (Denbighshire).]
The complex of caves found at Cefn, just outside St Asaph in north Wales has been the focus of much interest over the years. Full of animal bones and home to early Neanderthals, the caves have drawn many notable visitors, including Charles Darwin in 1831Articles: The Llandaf Diptych
29 June 2012[image: Llandaf Diptych]
Medieval diptychs and triptychs were two- and three-panel images intended to aid devotion and meditation of Christ's life and suffering. A right hand ivory diptych panel from Llandaff housed in the collections at Amgueddfa Cymru has recently been reunited with its left hand panel for the first time in over a century.
Articles: Sourcing the Stonehenge Bluestones
21 February 2012[image: Bluestine outcrop]
The source of the Bluestones at Stonehenge has long been a subject of fascination and controversy. One type was traced to north Pembrokeshire in the early 1920s, but now geologists at Amgueddfa Cymru have directly matched another type to a different part of north Pembrokeshire. Will this provide us with more ideas about how the stones might have been transported to Stonehenge?
Articles: Keeping evil at bay: Concealed garments
9 August 2011Galleries: The Llanvaches Roman Coin Hoard
15 July 2011
Articles
Articles: The Caves at Cefn: Tales of strange creatures and evidence of Wales's earliest humans.
7 March 2013[image: Pontnewydd Cave (Denbighshire).]
The complex of caves found at Cefn, just outside St Asaph in north Wales has been the focus of much interest over the years. Full of animal bones and home to early Neanderthals, the caves have drawn many notable visitors, including Charles Darwin in 1831Articles: The Llandaf Diptych
29 June 2012[image: Llandaf Diptych]
Medieval diptychs and triptychs were two- and three-panel images intended to aid devotion and meditation of Christ's life and suffering. A right hand ivory diptych panel from Llandaff housed in the collections at Amgueddfa Cymru has recently been reunited with its left hand panel for the first time in over a century.
Articles: Sourcing the Stonehenge Bluestones
21 February 2012[image: Bluestine outcrop]
The source of the Bluestones at Stonehenge has long been a subject of fascination and controversy. One type was traced to north Pembrokeshire in the early 1920s, but now geologists at Amgueddfa Cymru have directly matched another type to a different part of north Pembrokeshire. Will this provide us with more ideas about how the stones might have been transported to Stonehenge?
Articles: Keeping evil at bay: Concealed garments
9 August 2011
Galleries
Galleries: The Llanvaches Roman Coin Hoard
15 July 2011[image: Llanvaches coin hoard]
Get up close and personal with Roman rulers, their wives and girlfriends in one of the finest hoards of silver coins discovered from Roman Britain in the second century A.D.
Galleries: Re-creating life in early Wales
2 August 2007[image: Re-creations]
A gallery of artistic impressions capturing past life in Wales from the earliest humans to the Roman invasion.
Interactives
Interactives: Cardiff landscape, 1678
21 February 2011[image: Cardiff 1678]
Sketched by Francis Place in 1678 as two separate views of Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru has digitally scanned and stitched the two together to reveal for the first time this unique view of Cardiff.
Quizzes: Quiz: Caerleon - city of the Legion
4 July 2007