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Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau National Waterfront Museum

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The National Waterfront Museum at Swansea tells the story of industry and innovation in Wales, now and over the last 300 years.
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Location:
Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quater, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Swansea, Swansea, SA1 3RD
Telephone:
0300 111 2 333
Email:
waterfront@museumwales.ac.uk
Website:
http://museum.wales/swansea/

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Facilities

  • Accessibility Facilities
  • Business Facilities
  • Cater For Groups
  • Children Welcome
  • Hearing Accessibility Facilities
  • Mobility Accessibility Facilities
  • Visual Accessibility Facilities

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A mum stands with her young daughter inside the museum. They are looking at an early bicycle on display. The mum wears a red patterned dress and the g
Visitors exploring gallery
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a lady sits at a large desk. on it is a computer screen that she touches. There is another large display screen above her on a glass wall. Through the
Gallery screens
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a young girl presses buttons in front of a large light bulb to make it glow.
Interactive light bulb
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A man looks at a large black engine. It's a replica of Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive, the first steam powered vehicle to run on rails in 1804.
Replica of Trevithick's steam locomotive
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two men are walking up an open stair case inside a light, modern gallery. Behind them you can see a large coal truck that would have been pulled by tr
Inside the galleries
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three young people are chatting together, outside in the museum's garden. They're sitting on a wooden bench under an orange canopy.
Chilling in the garden
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a view of Swansea marina with lots of boats on the water. you can see the viewing deck upstairs at the museum where visitors can look out onto the wat
Viewing area at museum, overlooking the marina
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About Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau National Waterfront Museum

At the National Waterfront Museum take in the sights and sounds of more than 300 years of Welsh industry and innovation.

Using cutting-edge interactive technology, the Museum puts you in charge of the experience, putting the past right at your fingertips.

Located on the quayside of Swansea Marina - originally the South Dock of 1859 - the Museum stands in the former commercial heart of one of Wales's foremost industrial towns. Copper sheets made in Swansea once sheathed the hulls of the Royal Navy - to this day the term copper-bottomed implies quality and reliability!
15 themed galleries each tell a different aspect of this crucial period in Welsh history using a mix of touch screen technology and real objects, enabling visitors to be in charge of tracing their own experience of the fascinating - and still evolving - story of industrial Wales.

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a view of the museum from the front, showing the modern part of the building. It is approx 2 stories high, with a flat roof and the sides are all glas
Waterfront Museum building

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