St Fagans: National History Museum , Wales

St Fagans National History Museum located in the grounds of St Fagan's Castle, is an open-air museum in Cardiff depicting the historical lifestyle, culture and architecture of the Welsh people.

The museum includes over 40 buildings which represent the architecture of Wales, including a nonconformist chapel, a village schoolhouse, a Toll road tollbooth, a cockpit, a pigsty and a tannery. Most of these buildings have been transported from various locations around Wales and reconstructed on this site. The museum also includes two working Watermills, one flour mill, one wool mill and a toilet. There are native breeds of livestock in the fields and farmyards at St Fagans, and demonstrations of farming tasks take place daily. The simple two-roomed Saddler’s Workshop is the site of harnessmaking, collar-making and saddle-making, built in 1926 originally in St Clears, Carmarthenshire.

The medieval parish church of Saint Teilo is the Museum's latest building. Though 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, itself almost extinct in Wales. There is a row of workmen's cottages from Rhyd-y-car (1800–1985), near Merthyr Tydfil, as well as the pristine Oakdale Workmen's Institute and a post-war prefabricated bungalow has even been erected on the grounds.

The museum holds displays of traditional crafts with a working blacksmith's forge, a weaver and a miller. Part of the site includes a small working farm which concentrates on preserving local Welsh native breeds of livestock. Much of the produce from the museum is available for sale.

Opening Times

10am – 5pm daily

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Ticket Prices

Entry is Free

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Disabled Facilities

Dedicated parking spaces for disabled visitors are provided in the car park, adjacent to the main entrance to the museum. Ramps provide access to the entry point and shops.
Ramped access is provided to the galleries, open-air park and restaurants.
Wheelchairs are available on request, free of charge, in the main foyer entrance, on a first come first served basis.
Wheelchair access is possible to most parts of the site.
It is also worth noting that the terrain on the Castle side of the Museum is steep in places and may prove difficult for some wheelchair users and their carers.
Moveable ramps and a lift are available at the Oakdale Workmen's Institute. A wheelchair lift is installed in the House for the Future.
A motorised Disabled Tour Vehicle (DTV) is available to transport visitors around the site. The DTV can carry up to a maximum of five passengers. However, only two severely disabled people can be transported at any one time and, for Health & Safety compliance, they must be accompanied by one carer each.
Most of the exhibits in the galleries are clearly labelled and all the buildings have large information boards.
Dogs are allowed on site provided they are kept on a lead.

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