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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.

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.


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Exhibitions nearby

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
  • Until 10 February 2019
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
  • Until 28 January 2019
Trevor Paglen, They Watch the Moon, 2010

Artes Mundi 8

  • National Museum Cardiff
  • Until 24 February 2019

Art we’ve helped buy at National Library of Wales

Seventeen engraved portraits plus insignia
 Acquired 1940
Haymaking in Wales
 Acquired 1960
Dolbadarn Castle
 Acquired 1998
The Wynnstay Archive: Byres drawings
 Acquired 2001
Photograph album
 Acquired 2002
Harlech Sunrise
 Acquired 2009

Image credit

1 . Boston Manuscript

National Library of Wales

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