Museum of Welsh Life Reviews

Hang around a castle in Wales and sooner or later you’re bound to spy some ghostly apparition or hear things that go bump in the night, and as you would expect from a city that’s been around 2000 years Cardiff has its fair share of spooky stories. Cardiff’s most well known ghost is that of the 2nd Marquess of Bute, who died suddenly one ...  Read the complete review

About five miles west of Cardiff, (intersection 33, M4), first opened in 1948, lies The Welsh Folk Museum, in the quaint village of Saint Fagan's. Claimed to be one of the foremost open-air museums in Europe, it has fifty acres of Welsh cottages and other buildings that have literally been uprooted from their original site stone by stone and ...  Read the complete review

Probably the best way to start off this review is to actually say what St Fagans is. Well, it is a village about four miles north of Cardiff, which also lends its name to one of the National Museums of Wales - in this case, the Museum of Welsh Life. As I happened to be in Cardiff on a bit of a jaunt last week, I spent a day at this site (armed ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

The Museum Of Welsh Life is situated at St Fagans just outside Cardiff. This open air museum features centuries of Welsh tradition's, the different costumes, the culture and the indusrty are shown here. There are over 40 buildings at the museum, they have been brought stone-by-sone and re-built at the museum. You can visit a ...  Read the complete review