Cardiff Story

Hello all,

I've been in touch with Cardiff Story, Cardiff's new City Museum, regarding a space for Delaines exhibition. The Museum is housed in what used to be the old Free Library in the centre of town, and opened in April of last year. Thier collection is small but they are very keen to work with all aspects of Cardiff life and history. I will be posting photographs of the space on the blog shorty so keep your eyes peeled.

In the meantime here is a link to the Museums website for you to look at and some snippets of information about the building.

http://cardiffmuseum.com/content.asp?nav=112&parent_directory_id=2

Speak soon


Cardiff Story Museum: A Very Brief History

A competition was held to choose a design for the Cardiff Free Library, Museum and School for Science and Art. The winning design was by architects James, Seward and Thomas. It was built between 1880 - 82

Mayor Alfred Thomas opened the building on 31 May. The day was declared a public holiday.

Schools of Science and Art were housed here until 1890 when they moved to buildings belonging to the University College

As cardiff's population grew the building soon became too small to house the 3500 visitors it was receiving each day. An extension was built between 1893 and 1896 at a cost of £15,000

On June the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Cardiff to visit the Cardiff Exhibition in Cathays Park and open the Library

The Museum and Art Gallery remained on the top floor until the collection moved to National Museum Wales, which was founded in 1907

In 1935 the library was condemned by its then chief, Harry Farr, as no longer fit for use as a modern public library

In 2004 Visitor Information Centre moved in. Cardiff Museum Project moved in and began an exhibition programme

In 2011 the Cardiff Story Museum opened.