St Fagans National History Museum

St. Fagans
Cardiff
South Wales
CF5 6XB

Tel: +44 (0)29 2057 3500
Fax: +44 (0)29 2057 3490
Web: http://www.nmgw.ac.uk


St. Fagans: National History Museum is one of Europe's biggest and most exciting open-air museums. Centuries of Wales' tradition, culture, industry and costume are gathered together in a hundred acres of beautiful countryside. The Museum gives you the chance to travel from the Celtic village of 2,000 years ago to a miner's cottage of the 1980's.

Over forty buildings have been taken down stone-by-stone and rebuilt here at St. Fagans to recreate Welsh daily life throughout history.

Step back into the past: to the primitive Celtic village; to the bustle of a pre-war grocery; a 19th century farmyard, complete with animals; the chill of a Victorian schoolroom; all these and a 20th century children's playground add up to one of the best days' time-travelling you can find.

Festivals, theatre performances, storytelling, craft demonstrations and special events - there's always something new (and old) to find at St. Fagans: National History Museum.

 

Opening Times
(2006 times)
Daily 10.00am - 5.00pm. Open bank holiday Mondays.
Closed 24th-26th December

Admission Charges
(2006 prices)
Admission Free

Directions
Situated 4 miles west of Cardiff. Junction 33 of the M4.
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St Fagans National History Museum Postcode for SatNav: CF5 6XB

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