National Library of Wales

Ceredigion, SY23 3BU

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Discover a mountain of knowledge about Wales and the world – millions of books on every subject, thousands of manuscripts and archives, maps, pictures and photographs, films and music, and electronic information.

Boston Manuscript

National Library of Wales

All of this you can use free of charge in the reading rooms after becoming a reader. Tour the magnificent building, view exhibitions, watch films and enjoy lectures in the Drwm.

Art we’ve helped buy at National Library of Wales

Seventeen engraved portraits plus insignia

National Library of Wales Acquired 1940

Haymaking in Wales

National Library of Wales Acquired 1960

Dolbadarn Castle

National Library of Wales Acquired 1998

The Wynnstay Archive: Byres drawings

National Library of Wales Acquired 2001

Photograph album

National Library of Wales Acquired 2002

Harlech Sunrise

National Library of Wales Acquired 2009

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A visitor to Powis' House of Portraits exhibition admires a portrait of Colonel, the Honourable Percy Egerton Herbert (1822–1876) 1857 by Francis Grant (1803–1878)

House of Portraits

Ceri Richards, Music of Colours, White Blossom, 1968

Dylan Thomas: Music of Colour

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
22 September 2018 – 10 February 2019
Free to all

James Richards, Rosebud, 2013

On Paper

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
29 September – 25 November 2018
Free to all

Magali Reus, Parking (Legs At Eye Level), 2014

She sees the shadows

MOSTYN
14 July – 4 November 2018
Free to all

US actress Marilyn Monroe on the Nevada desert going over her lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clarke Gable in the film The Misfits by John Huston, 1960.

Women in Focus: Part One: Women Behind the Lens

National Museum Cardiff
5 May – 11 November 2018
Free to all

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