National Waterfront Museum

National Waterfront Museum
Oystermouth Road
Maritime Quarter
Swansea
Vale of Glamorgan
SA1 3RD
Wales

Website

www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea

E-mail

waterfront@museumwales.ac.uk

Telephone

Information and Enquiries

02920 573600

Fax

01792 638956

All information is drawn or provided by the venues themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
View of National Waterfront Museum building
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Throughout the Industrial Revolution Wales and her people influenced the rest of the world. How we live today is a result of the choices we made then. At the National Waterfront Museum you can be plunged into poverty, wallow in wealth, dabble with danger or even risk your health! Experience noise, grime, high finance, upheaval, consumerism and opportunity. Be exploited! Watch as families cope under pressure. It's no ‘soap’. It's what really happened. Wales was one of the earliest and most heavily industrialised nations on earth. We reaped the benefits, but we suffered the consequences. A visit to the National Waterfront Museum will be unlike any visit you've ever made to any museum. Ever.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

10:00 - 17:00 daily

 Admission charges

Free entry for all

Wales' industrial collections

Collection details

Agriculture, Architecture, Archives, Inland Waterways, Industry, Land Transport, Maritime, Science and Technology, Social History, Trade and Commerce

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Power to the People - Generating Electricity in Wales

  • 26 October 2013 — 30 March 2014 *on now

Every time you switch on a light you are tapping into a vast national grid of cables, transformers and power stations.

Where does our electricity come from? How does it reach our homes, work places and schools? Can Wales create enough energy to keep the lights on in the future?

Questions and answers in this illuminating exhibition.

Suitable for

  • Family friendly

Admission

Admission free.

Website

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=6712

Graham Sutherland: From Darkness into Light - Mining, Metal and Machines

  • 7 December 2013 — 23 March 2014 *on now

Graham Sutherland worked as an Official War Artist during the Second World War and sketched many industrial sites in South Wales, Devon and Cornwall.

This is a rare opportunity to see more than 60 sketchbook drawings from a private collection.

Touring exhibition organised by Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Cornwall.

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Admission

Free.
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