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St. Fagan's Mission to expand
This is a photo of a slate pig sty I took at St. Fagan's in 2005.
THE new director general of National Museum Wales yesterday pledged to take the nations most popular visitor attraction into the future, while holding onto its past.
, who was appointed to the role last year, said the museum at St Fagans had an important emotional appeal to people in Wales, as he spoke to Cardiff Breakfast Club yesterday.
The site, founded by Iorwerth Peate in the 1940s, is Wales biggest tourist attraction, drawing in more than 600,000 visitors a year.
The concept of St Fagans has a very powerful emotional appeal, he said. Generation after generation have been brought to St Fagans by their parents and grandparents. Families are two-thirds of our visitors, and that is an extraordinarily high proportion.
Mr Anderson outlined his radical overhaul for the museum, which will see the National Museums archaeological collection brought to the site. The move will take St Fagans from a museum looking at Wales history from the Middle Ages to one looking back to the days of the first human habitation in Wales.
I hope so! I heard a great talk on the restoration of St. Teilo's Church--I saw the church a few years ago, mid-restoration, so I need to go back again. This was a church my ancestors may have attended when they lived (briefly) in Pontarddulais. My only complaint about St. Fagan's is they have nothing substantial about the copper industry!
This is better news than the rumours flying around here in Wales.
Due to the continuing cuts in spending - it was rumoured that St Fagans was to shut to the public along with the Medieval Village at Cosmeston. Eaarlier in the year we received an invitation to tender for the Medieval Events at Cosmeston - and though we did not apply - we now hear that the events are not to continue this year and the staffing of the village is to cease - to save finances. I note that invitations are out to the private sector for ideas to make use of the Lakes and Village near Penarth - and rumour was strong that St Fagans was to suffer the same fate.
The changes to St Fagans may still be part of an "efficiency gain " of some form - but at least this story suggest that this important aid to the retention of welsh History is to continue...
Slate pig sties are kewl