National Museum Cardiff

The National Museum in Cardiff, founded in 1927, presents the history of Wales from the earliest times to the present day through expositions devoted to archeology, geology and natural history. The museum also has a rich and extremely valuable collection of works of art - an overview of the most important achievements in the field of painting, drawing, sculpture and artistic craftsmanship of Wales and the world over the last 500 years. Its decoration is one of the largest collections of impressionist painting in Europe.

The beginnings of the National Museum's collection are connected with the collector's passion of the Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, who gathered and then in the mid-twentieth century gave the Museum one of the largest 20th-century art collections in Great Britain. It consisted of 260 works, among which were works of such famous celebrities as Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, William Turner, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh as well as sculptures by Auguste Rodin.

In addition to the art collections, there are also exhibitions devoted to ceramics (2000 pieces of antique European porcelain from the 18th and 19th centuries and a collection of Welsh porcelain with 1500 exhibits), as well as the exhibition "Evolution in Wales" (among the exhibits there are several meteorites and moon rock imported by astronauts from the mission Apollo 11) and "Natural History in Wales", which is decorated with a huge, measuring 7.5 m and weighing 4 tons, a longspaw - a planktonivorous shark found off the Welsh coast.