All profession & craft museums to visit in Wales

Discover the skills and trades that have shaped societies at 8 profession and craft museums in Wales. These museums highlight the history and techniques of various professions and crafts.

Are you interested in the art of craftsmanship? These are the must-visit profession and craft museums in Wales:

  1. Usk Rural Life Museum1

    Usk Rural Life Museum

     Usk
    Usk 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
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    Gower Heritage Centre

     Swansea
    Parkmill is a quaint village located in the Gower Peninsula, South Wales. It is situated approximately eight miles west of Swansea and about a mile from the north coast of the Bristol Channel. This location makes it an ideal spot for tourists who are interested in exploring the natural beauty of South Wales.
  3. Nantgarw China Works & Museum3

    Nantgarw China Works & Museum

     Nantgarw
    Nantgarw China Works Museum is a museum in Nantgarw. The museum features exhibits related to Decorative and Applied Art, Science and Technology and Archaeology.
  4. South Wales Police Heritage Centre4

    South Wales Police Heritage Centre

     Porthcawl
    From the Celtic age to present day, we tell the fascinating stories of South Wales’ officers through the decades. Explore the kit of a Victorian constable; discover the tough duties of Glamorgan officers in World War I, and uncover some of the weapons used against police. Our galleries contain a ran
  5. Robert Owen Museum5

    Robert Owen Museum

     Newtown
    The Museum tells the remarkable story of Robert Owen, born in Newtown (Powys) in 1771. A village boy who hobnobbed with royalty. A shop assistant who became a factory manager. An educator with little education. A rich man who fought for the poor. A capitalist who became the first "socialist". An ind
  6. National Wool Museum6

    National Wool Museum

     Felindre
    National Wool Museum is a museum in Llandysul. The museum features exhibits related to: social history, costume and textiles, industry and science and technology. Key themes, people and exhibits in the museum include: welsh woollen industry.
  7. Newtown Textile Museum7

    Newtown Textile Museum

     Newtown
    Newtown Textile Museum is located in an 1830s hand-loom weaving 'factory'. The building consisted of six back-to-back cottages on the lower floors and two large rooms which housed up to 22 handlooms on the top two floors. It gives visitors a chance to see how the handloom weavers of the mid-19th ce
  8. Museum Of Welsh Textiles8

    Museum Of Welsh Textiles

     Whitton
    About Museum Of Welsh Textiles... The Old School Whitton is a Museum Gallery and Teaching Centre, and home of the Museum of Welsh Textiles. The Museum Has access to an extensive collection of Welsh Woven Textiles, Blankets, Quilts and Costume, Each year we select a different part of the collection f