Looking for the best museums in Wales? These are the best ones:
Cardiff Castle
CardiffCardiff Castle is a museum in Cardiff. The museum features exhibits related to Architecture. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include Access to Drawings Collections (by appointment only).
National Museum Cardiff
CardiffNational Museum Cardiff is a museum in Cardiff. The museum features exhibits related to Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, Coins and Medals and Archaeology. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include Evolution of Wales, Impressionist, La Parisienne, The Blue Lady, The
St Fagans National History Museum
Saint FagansThe St Fagans National History Museum offers centuries of Welsh social history gathered together in 100 acres of beautiful countryside. The museum features exhibits related to: costume and textiles, archives, agriculture, world cultures, architecture, industry, archaeology and social history. Key th
Caernarfon Castle
CaernarfonThe size of Caernarfon Castle, a World Heritage site, mirrors the fortune spent on it by Edward I.
Conwy Castle
ConwyConwy Castle is a museum in Conwy. The museum features exhibits related to: architecture.
Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways
PorthmadogFfestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways is a museum in Porthmadog. The museum features exhibits related to: land transport.
Big Pit National Coal Museum
BlaenavonBig Pit National Coal Museum is a museum in Blaenafon. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, archives, industry and science and technology. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: industrial history, pithead baths, coal mining, engineering, mine shaft and mining.
National Slate Museum
LlanberisThe National Slate Museum is a museum in Llanberis. It tells the story of the slate industry in Wales and features exhibits related to Industry, Science and Technology and Social History.
Castell Coch
TongwynlaisFairytale turrets peeping our of beech woods… there's a lot more to Castell Coch than meets the eye.
Caerphilly Castle
CaerphillyCaerphilly Castle is a museum in Caerphilly. The museum features exhibits related to Architecture.
Beaumaris Castle
BeaumarisBeaumaris Castle is a museum in Beaumaris. The museum features exhibits related to Architecture.
Powis Castle and Garden
WelshpoolThe garden, overhung with enormous clipped yews, shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under the influence of Italian and French styles it retains its original lead statues, orangery and aviary on the terraces. The castle, originally built around 1200 began life as a fortress of the Welsh prin
Harlech Castle
HarlechHarlech Castle is a museum in Harlech. The museum features exhibits related to Architecture.
Erddig
WrexhamErddig is a museum in Wrexham. The museum features exhibits related to: costume and textiles, coins and medals, personalities, land transport, music, archives, decorative and applied art, social history and fine art.
Tredegar House
DuffrynTredegar House is a museum in Newport. The museum features exhibits related to: fine art, decorative and applied art, archives and social history.
Techniquest
CardiffTechniquest is a museum in Cardiff. The museum features exhibits related to: natural sciences and science and technology.
Chirk Castle
ChirkA stark symbol of power, Chirk Castle was completed in 1310 during the reign of the conquering Edward I to subdue the last princes of Wales. Built on an outcrop above the meeting point of the rivers Dee and Ceiriog, the imposing silhouette of the castle was a brooding statement of English intent in
Penrhyn Castle
BangorPenrhyn Castle is a museum in Bangor. The museum features exhibits related to: costume and textiles, personalities, decorative and applied art, social history, land transport, fine art and science and technology.
South Stack Lighthouse
Holyhead
National Botanic Garden of Wales
LlanarthneyNational Botanic Garden of Wales is a museum in Llanarthne. The museum features exhibits related to Agriculture and Natural Sciences.
Chepstow Castle
ChepstowSubstantial remains of one of the earliest stone-built castles in Britain, built around 1067, the centre of the medieval Marcher lordship of Chepstow. Home to the 'Greatest Knight' William Marshal and his family. The castle was modified and developed in successive stages throughout the Middle Ages a
Carew Castle and Tidal Mill
Carew
Great Orme Mines
LlandudnoVisitors walk 200 metres of the 3,500 year old underground passageways leading to the Bronze Age Cavern. On display are a selection of Bronze Age bone, stone and metal tools found both in the mine and the North Wales area, as well as other items relating to the narrative of the site. Displays and v
Raglan Castle
RaglanRaglan Castle was one of the last medieval castles to be built in England and Wales. Although it was designed with comfort and luxury in mind, the castle was pretty formidable too.
National Roman Legion Museum
CaerleonNational Roman Legion Museum is a museum in Caerleon. The museum features exhibits related to: weapons and war and archaeology.
Dinefwr Castle
LlandeiloDinefwr Castle is a museum in Llandeilo. The museum features exhibits related to: architecture, archaeology, social history and agriculture.
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
CaerleonThe Roman military base of Isca, the home of the Second Augustan Legion for more than 200 years, has 50 acres to explore. Up to 5,500 soldiers could be stationed here at any time.
Dylan Thomas Boathouse
LaugharneDylan Thomas Boathouse is a museum in Laugharne. The museum features exhibits related to Literature and Personalities. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include Dylan Thomas.
Picton Castle and Gardens
HaverfordwestA sixty acre garden surrounding a 13th century fairy tale castle. The gardens include a Walled Garden, a maze, a fern walk and an extensive traditional herb collection. Younger visitors will find things to do in the play area and adjacent jungle garden. A jungle boardwalk allows children and adults
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Nelson- 31
Royal Mint Museum
LlantrisantRoyal Mint Museum is a museum in Pontyclun. The museum features exhibits related to Weapons and War. 
Criccieth Castle
CricciethWhat a picture, what a view. Beguiling from afar, this castle is perched on a headland with the sea pounding below. Get close however and its gatehouse intimidates prospective attackers.
Beaumaris Gaol and Courthouse
BeaumarisBeaumaris Gaol and Courthouse Museum is a museum in Beaumaris. The museum features exhibits related to Social History.
St David's Bishop's Palace
Saint DavidsHigh walls high cavred stone human heads and mystical beasts. Only the striking chequerboard stonework hints at what lies within what was once the fabulous palace of the medieval bishops of St Davids, built a stone's throw from the cathedral.
Dyffryn Gardens and Arboretum
Saint Nicholas
The Cardiff Story
CardiffDiscover how Cardiff was transformed from the small market town of the 1300s, to one of the world's biggest ports in the 1900s, to the cool, cosmopolitan capital we know today. The museum, in the beautiful and historic Old Library building, is rich in stories, objects, photographs and film telling t
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Merthyr TydfilCyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Merthyr Tydfil. The museum features exhibits related to Natural Sciences, Archives, Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Personalities, World Cultures, Costume and Textiles, Social History, Science and Technology, Coins and Medals and Music.
Blaenavon Ironworks
BlaenavonThe Blaenavon Ironworks started production in 1789 and was to become the first purpose built multi-furnace ironworks in Wales. At that time it was on the cutting edge of technology. The furnaces were coke fired and the blast provided by a steam engine. Blaenavon is now home to one of the best preser
Llanelly House
LlanelliHeritage site/Visitor attraction
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
TenbyTenby Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Tenby. The museum features exhibits related to Personalities, Archaeology, Maritime, Archives, Natural Sciences, Social History, Coins and Medals, Fine Art and Weapons and War.
Firing Line: The Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier
CardiffFiring Line: The Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier is a museum in Cardiff. The museum features exhibits related to: personalities, fine art, coins and medals, costume and textiles, archives, decorative and applied art, music, social history and weapons and war.
Llanerchaeron
AberaeronLlanerchaeron is a rare example of a self-sufficient 18th-century Welsh minor gentry estate that has survived virtually unaltered. The villa, designed in the 1790s, is the most complete example of the early work of John Nash. It has its own service courtyard with dairy, laundry, brewery and salting
Valle Crucis
Llantysilio
Plas Newydd, Llangollen
LlangollenPlas Newydd, Llangollen is a museum in Llangollen. The museum features exhibits related to: personalities, costume and textiles, social history, fine art, decorative and applied art and archives.
Oriel y Parc Gallery and Visitor Centre
Saint DavidsOriel y Parc includes a Visitor Centre, Artist in Residence Studio, a Discovery Room which hosts family friendly art and nature activities, a Tower which hosts local arts exhibitions and community run classes, and a café. There is also a Class A Landscape Gallery, which was built to house works fro
Ceredigion Museum
AberystwythCeredigion Museum is a museum in Aberystwyth. The museum features exhibits related to: agriculture, costume and textiles, archaeology and social history. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: the museum has a large collection of oil paintings by alfred worthington,1835-1925. there i
National Waterfront Museum
SwanseaNational Waterfront Museum is a museum in Swansea. The museum features exhibits related to Inland Waterways, Agriculture, Trade and Commerce, Maritime, Social History, Science and Technology, Archives, Architecture, Land Transport and Industry.
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh
BreconThe Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh is a museum in Brecon. The museum features exhibits related to Social History, World Cultures, Costume and Textiles, Personalities, Fine Art, Archives and Weapons and War. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include Victoria Crosses, Zulu War, Weapo
Caldicot Castle Country Park
ChepstowCaldicot Castle Country Park is a museum in Caldicot. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, archaeology, costume and textiles and archives. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: horatio nelson and roman pottery.
Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort
CrymychCastell Henllys Iron Age Fort is a museum in Nr Crymych. The museum features exhibits related to Archaeology and Social History.
Laugharne Castle
LaugharneThink Laugharne, think Dylan Thomas, but think castle too. Both Dylan Thomas and author Richard Hughes put pen to paper in the castle's garden summer house.
Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum
CaernarfonRoyal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum is a museum in Caernarfon. The museum features exhibits related to Archives, Personalities, Fine Art, Costume and Textiles, Weapons and War, Social History, Decorative and Applied Art and Coins and Medals. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include
Aberdulais Tin Works and Waterfall
AberdulaisAberdulais Tin Works and Waterfall is a museum in Neath. The museum features exhibits related to: social history and science and technology.
Tretower Court and Castle
TretowerFor over 900 years Tretower Court and Castle have been altered, ajusted and adapted to keep up with the style and tastes of the time. Now visitors can see what the kitchen and great hall may have looked like around 1470.
Holyhead Maritime Museum
HolyheadHolyhead Maritime Museum is a museum in Holyhead. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, weapons and war, land transport, maritime, archaeology and archives.- 56
Kidwelly Castle
KidwellyKidwelly is everything a castle should be - Steep earthworks, high towers, tall walls and a great gatehouse which took at least a century to complete. 
Ruthin Gaol
RuthinRuthin Gaol is a museum in Ruthin. The museum features exhibits related to Social History and Law and Order.
Welsh Highland Heritage Railway
PorthmadogWelsh Highland Heritage Railway is a museum in Porthmadog. The museum features exhibits related to Land Transport.
Abergavenny Museum
AbergavennyAbergavenny Museum is a museum in Abergavenny. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, costume and textiles, archives and archaeology.
Dylan Thomas Birth Place
Uplands5 Cwmdonkin Drive - the birthplace in Swansea of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas - has been restored to its condition in 1914 when bought as a new house by the Thomas family a few months before Dylan was born in the front bedroom and where he lived for 23 years and wrote over two thirds his publish
Rhondda Heritage Park
PontypriddRhondda Heritage Park is a museum in Trehafod. The museum features exhibits related to: industry, costume and textiles, social history, fine art, land transport, archives, natural sciences, science and technology and decorative and applied art.
Oriel Ynys Môn
RhosmeirchOriel Ynys Môn is a museum in Llangefni. The museum features exhibits related to Science and Technology, Coins and Medals, Fine Art, Personalities, Archives, Social History, Maritime and Archaeology.
Judge's Lodging
PresteigneJudge's Lodging is a museum in Presteigne. The museum features exhibits related to: costume and textiles, trade and commerce, toys and hobbies, agriculture, social history and law and order. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: radnorshire constabulary, mary morgan tombstone, josep
Plas yn Rhiw
RhiwPlas yn Rhiw was rescued from neglect and restored by the three Keating sisters, who bought it in 1938. The house offers views from the grounds and gardens across Cardigan Bay. The house is 16th-century with Georgian additions, and the garden contains many beautiful flowering trees and shrubs, with
Llynnon Mill
LlanddeusantLlynnon Mill is the only working windmill in Wales. It operates as an agricultural museum, and produces stoneground wholemeal flour using organic wheat. There are also two roundhouses, 10m in diameter, built from timber with wattle and daub walls and a thatched roof - providing an insight of the lif
Aberconwy House
ConwyAberconwy House is a 14th-century merchant's house. It is the only medieval merchant's house in Conwy to have survived the turbulent history of the walled town over nearly six centuries. Furnished rooms and an audio-visual presentation show daily life from different periods in its history.
Cilgerran Castle
CardiganPerched on the edge of a steep gorge above the river Teifi, the Normans first built an earth-and-timber castle here around 900 years ago. Lost and won several times over, it was the Marshal family, earls of Pembroke, who raised the imposing stone castle seen today.
Centre for Alternative Technology
PantperthogEducational exhibition centre demonstrating sustainable building techniques as well as renewable energy, energy efficiency, organic growing, water conservation and environmentally friendly sewage systems. The site buildings display a very wide range of sustainable building materials and techniques i
Greenfield Valley Museum & Heritage Park
HolywellGreenfield Valley Museum & Heritage Park is a museum in Nr Holywell. The museum features exhibits related to: science and technology, archives and social history.
Rhuddlan Castle
RhuddlanAnother of Edwars I's North Wales fortresses not be to missed. Here he streightened the river Clwyd to make surew there was easy access to the sea.
Swansea Museum
SwanseaSwansea Museum has had over 180 years to collect everything from the ordinary to the extraordinary. The eclectic collection includes modes objects from Swansea’s rich history as well as works of art from cultures around the world. Built in 1841, the museum was designed to be a place of exploration,
Lloyd George Museum and Highgate Cottage
LlanystumdwyLloyd George Museum and Highgate Cottage is a museum in Criccieth. The museum features exhibits related to Film and Media, Decorative and Applied Art, Coins and Medals, Weapons and War, Science and Technology, Social History, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Personalities and Fine Art.
Scolton Manor Museum
HaverfordwestScolton Manor Museum is a museum in Haverfordwest. The museum features exhibits related to: weapons and war, coins and medals, social history, costume and textiles, personalities, agriculture, archaeology, natural sciences, maritime, fine art, decorative and applied art and land transport.
Denbigh Castle
DenbighDenbigh Castle is a museum in Denbigh. The museum features exhibits related to Social History, Architecture, Weapons and War and Archaeology.
Milford Haven Museum
Milford HavenMilford Haven Museum is a museum in Milford Haven. The museum features exhibits related to: maritime, archives, costume and textiles, weapons and war, science and technology and social history.
Bedwellty House and Park
TredegarHeritage site.
Wrexham County Borough Museum and Archives
WrexhamWrexham County Borough Museum and Archives is a museum in Wrexham. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, weapons and war, archives, archaeology, costume and textiles and science and technology.
Carmarthenshire Museum
AbergwiliCarmarthenshire Museum is a museum in Carmarthen. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, medicine, world cultures, fine art, science and technology, personalities, decorative and applied art, archives, costume and textiles, natural sciences, archaeology, land transport, coins and m
Chepstow Museum
ChepstowChepstow Museum is a museum in Chepstow. The museum features exhibits related to Social History.
Internal Fire, Museum of Power
Tan-y-groesInternal Fire, Museum of Power is a museum in Tanygroes. The museum features exhibits related to Industry and Science and Technology.
Usk Rural Life Museum
UskUsk Rural Life Museum is a museum in Usk, particularly focused on rural life across the years in our local area. We have exhibitions of rural trades from a bygone year as well as a cottage showing how we once lived. There are so many artefacts jammed into a little space you will be amazed! The m
Winding House
Elliots TownWinding House is a museum in New Tredegar. The museum features exhibits related to: social history and industry.
Rug Chapel
CorwenThese two tiny religioius sites together make a big impression. Built in 1637, Rug is a perfect example of a little-altered period chapel. Llanger Church is older, dating back to 1291 and was originaly called Llann-Garw_gwyn, meaning church of the white deer.
Blaenavon World Heritage Centre
BlaenavonBlaenavon World Heritage Centre is situated in the first school in Wales built (in 1816) by Ironmasters for their workers. Inside visitors will find interactive exhibitions telling the story of the Blaenavon World Heritage Site and its residents through history. There are exhibitions in the Gallery
Lamphy Bishop's Palace
LampheyNow, as in the past, this is a place to seek solice from the stresses of everyday life. The medieval bishops of St Davids chose just the right place for a lavish sanctuary. The exqusiit palace reflects their wealth, status and power.
Museum of Land Speed
PendineThe Museum of Speed closed in 2018 to make way for the Pendine Tourism Attractor Project. This will feature a museum dedicated to Pendine’s dramatic role in the World Land Speed Record in the 1920s, when the sands witnessed an intense competition between Malcolm Campbell and J.G. Parry-Thomas.
Mostyn, Wales, UK
LlandudnoMostyn is a public art gallery in Llandudno, North Wales, with a programme of contemporary art exhibitions on a par with those in major global art centres. Located minutes from Llandudno station and the beach, an Edwardian red brick façade, turn of the century galleries and modern concrete are comb
MOMA, Wales
MachynllethMOMA, Wales is a museum in Machynlleth. The museum features exhibits related to: decorative and applied art and fine art.
Llanyrafon Farm
CwmbranLlanyrafon Farm is a museum in Cwmbran. The museum features exhibits related to Science and Technology and Social History.
Castle and Regimental Museum
MonmouthCastle and Regimental Museum is a museum in Monmouth. The museum features exhibits related to Weapons and War, Social History and Archives.- 91
Gower Heritage Centre
SwanseaThe Centre is based around a historic 12th century water-powered corn and saw mill, with craft workshops, daily tours and demonstrations. It caters for individual visitors, school and group visits, with an extensive programme of special events throughout the year. Gower Heritage Centre features exh 
Parc Howard Museum and Art Gallery
LlanelliParc Howard houses a renowned collection of Llanelli Pottery (1839 - 1921), an art collection and material related to the history of the town. Parc Howard was built by the Buckley family in 1885, a family with a long association of brewing in the town. The mansion, with its 27 acre park, was given t
Llangollen Museum
LlangollenLlangollen Museum is a museum in Llangollen. The museum features exhibits related to: social history.
Nantclwyd Y Dre
Ruthin
Porthmadog Maritime Museum
PorthmadogPorthmadog Maritime Museum is a museum in Porthmadog. The museum features exhibits related to Social History and Maritime.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
CrynantCefn Coed Colliery Museum is a museum in Neath. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, archives, industry and land transport.
Old Bell Museum
MontgomeryOld Bell Museum is a museum in Montgomery. The museum features exhibits related to Personalities, Decorative and Applied Art, Land Transport, Archives, Social History, Weapons and War, Medicine, Costume and Textiles and Archaeology.
National Cycle Museum
Llandrindod WellsNational Cycle Museum is a museum in Llandrindod Wells. The museum features exhibits related to: land transport. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: george fleming, bill bradley, billie dovey, barry clarke, david higman, tom simpson, barry hoban, tom norton, raleigh and dunlop.
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
NewportNewport Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Newport. The museum features exhibits related to Religion, Science and Technology, Industry, Social History, Agriculture, Coins and Medals, Music, Fine Art, Medicine, Personalities, Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Maritime, Natural Sciences, Costum
Strata Florida
PontrhydfendigaidStrata Florida - Ystras Fflur - Vale of flowers. This mosr remote and tranquil abbey was home to Welsh litriture and learning for almost 400 years.
