Homepage for Research
Category page navigation
Map views:
Articles
Related articles from Rhagor
Storytellers
A selection of folk narratives from the extensive collections in the sound archive at St Fagans
Museums
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales operates seven national museums across Wales.
Art works
A selection of art works from Art Collections Online.
Browse related themes
Keeping and caring for collections
Latest
Articles: Species new to Science: Polychaetes from the Falkland Islands
20 February 2013[image: Polecheate worm]
Polychaetes (or bristleworms) are found in nearly every marine habitat on Earth. They are very adaptable and diverse in appearance, and there are currently around 10,000 species described. With increasing environmental pressures on our marine environment it is more important than ever to know what species live where.Articles: A new discovery within an old instrument: was the Welsh crwth unique in possessing two soundboxes?
2 April 2012[image: crwth]
Amgueddfa Cymru is fortunate enough to house one of only three surviving authentic Welsh crwths in Britain. Does the discovery of a hidden aperture make the crwth unique amongst bowed instruments by having two soundboxes?
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: Discovering T. Leigh: in search of a forgotten painter
26 January 2012
Articles
Articles: Species new to Science: Polychaetes from the Falkland Islands
20 February 2013[image: Polecheate worm]
Polychaetes (or bristleworms) are found in nearly every marine habitat on Earth. They are very adaptable and diverse in appearance, and there are currently around 10,000 species described. With increasing environmental pressures on our marine environment it is more important than ever to know what species live where.Articles: A new discovery within an old instrument: was the Welsh crwth unique in possessing two soundboxes?
2 April 2012[image: crwth]
Amgueddfa Cymru is fortunate enough to house one of only three surviving authentic Welsh crwths in Britain. Does the discovery of a hidden aperture make the crwth unique amongst bowed instruments by having two soundboxes?
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: Discovering T. Leigh: in search of a forgotten painter
26 January 2012
Galleries
Galleries: The rarest plants in Wales
1 April 2009[image: Rare plant]
Wales is home to a number of rare plants. Some rare species are endemic to Wales and occur nowhere else in the world, such as Ley’s Whitebeam or the Black Mountain Hawkweed.