A day out for all the family and educational (Museum of Welsh Life)

Member Name: welshwolf

Product:	Museum of Welsh Life
Date:	26/05/01 (100 review reads)
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Once again open after foot and mouth St Fagan’s had to shut its doors during the last holidays, as it’s so popular. Opened in 1948 St Fagan’s has become one of Europe’s leading open museums.

The museum shows how the people of Wales lived, worked and spent their leisure time over the last five hundred years. The museum stands in the grounds of St Fagan’s Castle a late sixteenth Century Manor House.

The parkland is stretched over one hundred acres and has thirty-two buildings which have come from various parts of Wales and been re-erected. The buildings include a school, chapel, a Victorian shop, Celtic village and several workshops showing a blacksmith and a cooper at work.

There are large indoor galleries that have exhibitions of costume, daily life and farming implements. Special exhibitions are also held at regular intervals and traditional festivals during the year. Christmas time demonstrates many old trades, card making etc.

Native breeds of livestock can be seen in the fields and farmyards and they are quite friendly due to the number of visitors that give them attention my favourites are the pigs but watch your fingers!!! There are cattle, chickens and of course sheep.

My kids have been on a number of occasions with the school and they rightfully boasted when I visited last weekend that 180.000 children visited last year.

Food is a little bit expensive but there are plenty of picnic areas. A damn good day out for all the family but try and go on a dry day as it does make a difference.

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