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Swansea Museum Swansea Museum

Swansea Museum is the oldest museum in Wales.

The collections contain all sorts of objects from the past of Swansea, Wales and the rest of the world. You'll find everything from an Egyptian mummy to a Welsh kitchen, displayed in six galleries.

There are also many changing temporary exhibitions each year.


Permanent collection

Visit the museum's Tramway Centre, Collections Centre and Maritime Vessel Pontoon.

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Swansea Museum

Victoria Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 1SN

01792 653763

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Opening times

Open Tues - Sun
10am - 4.30pm (Last admission 4.15pm)
Closed Mondays except Bank Holiday Mondays

Free to all

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Exhibitions nearby

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
Nia, The Gurnos, Merthyr

Women in Focus: Part Two: Women in Front of the Lens

  • National Museum Cardiff
  • Until 9 June 2019

Art we’ve helped buy at Swansea Museum

Swansea pottery pearlware cabaret set
 Acquired 2008

Image credit

1 . Swansea Museum

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