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Today is international museum day and this year’s theme is ‘Museums in a changing world’.
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One of the most interesting museums I’ve ever visited, and one that illustrates the theme of this year’s IMD rather well as it happens, is St Fagan’s Welsh Folk Museum near Cardiff. There are hundreds of unique buildings there that have been saved from demolition by being rebuilt and furnished in a style specific to their hayday there that visitors can walk around. There are Victorian buildings like the schoolhouse and the general store, Iron Age Celtic roundhouses, a Methodist chapel, a working men’s club, miners cottages, Tudor farm houses, miners cottages to name but a few of the fabulous buildings. One of the most interesting ones is a fairly recent addition; the 1940s metal prefab:
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