Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
# Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, branded as simply Amgueddfa Cymru (formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and legally National Museum of Wales), is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales:

* National Museum Cardiff – formerly the National Museum of Wales
* St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff
* Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon
* National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre near Llandysul
* National Slate Museum, Llanberis
* National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon
* National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

In addition to these sites, the organisation runs Oriel y Parc, a gallery of Welsh landscape art in St David's, in partnership with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. The National Collections Centre in Nantgarw is AC-NMW's storage facility.

## Directors of the National Museum of Wales

* William Evans Hoyle (1908–1924)
* Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1925–1926)
* Sir Cyril Fox (1926–1948)
* D. Dilwyn John (1948–1968)
* Gwyn Jones (1968–1977)
* Douglas Bassett (1977–1985)
* David W. Dykes (1986–1989)
* Alastair Wilson (1989–1993)
* Colin Ford (1993–1998)
* Anna Southall (1998–2002)
* Michael Houlihan (2003–2010)
* David Anderson (2010–)

## Visitor numbers

In 2017 over 1.89m visitors attended the National Museum sites. The most popular site for 2017 was St. Fagans and in 2016 the most popular attraction was National Museum Cardiff.

Museum visitor numbers :

| Museum | Visitor numbers (2017) |
| - | - |
| St Fagans National Museum of History | 553,090 |
| National Museum Cardiff | 539,550 |
| National Waterfront Museum | 268,622 |
| National Slate Museum | 145,969 |
| Big Pit National Coal Museum | 141,969 |
| National Roman Legion Museum | 70,021 |
| National Wool Museum | 36,909 |
| Source: Visits to Tourist Attractions in Wales 2017 |||
