St Fagans National Museum of History – Virtual Tour

St Fagans National Museum of History is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people. 

The museum consists of more than forty re-erected buildings from various locations in Wales and is set in the grounds of St Fagans Castle, an Elizabethan manor house.

The museum holds displays of traditional crafts, with a working blacksmith forge, a pottery maker, a weaver, a miller, and a clog maker.

Although the museum was intended to preserve aspects of Welsh rural life, it now includes several buildings that depict the industrial working life that succeeded it.

Based on archaeological findings, a reconstruction of Llys Rhosyr, a thirteenth-century court of the princes of Gwynedd, called Llys Llewelyn (‘Llewelyn’s Court’) has also been created.

Scenes from the Doctor Who episodes “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood” were filmed at the museum.

Kennixton Farmhouse at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales.

Highlights of St Fagans National Museum of History

• Welsh Rural Life Exhibits
  • Working water flour mill
  • Working water wool mill
  • A village schoolhouse
  • A toll road tollbooth
• Working farm preserving local Welsh native breeds of livestock.
  • A cockpit
  • A pigsty
  • A tannery 
• Unitarian nonconformist chapel 
• The medieval parish church of Saint Teilo
• A Tudor merchant’s house
• Industrial Working Life Exhibits
  • A row of workers’ cottages, depicting furnishing from 1800 to 1985
  • Oakdale Workmen’s Institute
  • A post-war prefabricated bungalow to exhibit later domestic lifestyles.

Tannery – National History Museum of Wales, St Fagans.

St Fagans National Museum of History

• Museum:              St Fagans National Museum of History
• Welsh:                  Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru
• Previously:            Welsh Folk Museum and then, Museum of Welsh Life
• City:                      Cardiff
• Country:               Wales
• State:                    United Kingdom
• Established:         1948
• Type:                    Open-air history, culture, and architecture museum
• Location:              St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales

St Fagans National Museum of History Map

St Fagans National Museum – St Fagans Castle grounds 360 views

St Fagans National Museum – 360 views

St Fagans National Museum – 360 views

St Fagans National Museum of Welsh History – Cardiff, Wales

St Fagans National Museum of History

St Fagans National Museum of History 

A Virtual Tour of the Museums in the United Kingdom

London Museums

• The British Museum
• The National Gallery, London
• Tate Britain
• The Wallace Collection
• The Victoria and Albert Museum
• Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
• Courtauld Gallery
• Tate Modern, London
• Science Museum, London
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• Natural History Museum
• Charles Dickens Museum
• Hampton Court Palace
• Sherlock Holmes Museum
• British Library
• Imperial War Museum
• Churchill War Rooms
• Florence Nightingale Museum
• Foundling Museum
• Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
• Cutty Sark, Royal Museums Greenwich
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
• Queen’s House, Greenwich
• Royal Observatory, Greenwich
• Guildhall Art Gallery
• HMS Belfast
• Jewel Tower
• Jewish Museum London
• Bank of England Museum
• London Transport Museum
• Museum of London
• Museum of London Docklands
• National Army Museum, London
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
• Royal Air Force Museum London
• Shakespeare’s Globe
• Sir John Soane’s Museum
• St Paul’s Cathedral
• City of London Police Museum
• Household Cavalry Museum
• Museum of Freemasonry
• Tower Bridge, London
• Tower of London
• Wellcome Collection
• Westminster Abbey

Edinburgh Museums

• National Museum of Scotland
• Scottish National Gallery

Glasgow Museums

• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Liverpool Museums

• Walker Art Gallery

Manchester Museums

• Manchester Art Gallery

Bath Museums

• Roman Baths (Bath)

Birmingham Museums

• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Leeds Museums

• Leeds Art Gallery

Newcastle upon Tyne Museums

• Laing Art Gallery

St Fagans National Museum of History

St Fagans National Museum of History

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– Welsh Proverb

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Photo Credit: Deb / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Seth Whales / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Rudi Winter / Tannery – National History Museum of Wales, St Fagans