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2 unusual facts about National Museum Wales


Cardiff Bay railway station

The building was restored in the 1980s and served for a time as a railway museum under the auspices of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and the Butetown Historical Railway Society (which in 1997 relocated its activities to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway).

Ghost slug

A year later, another slug was found by a gardener near Cardiff, Wales, where it was brought to the attention of the National Museum Wales.


Caergwrle

It was donated to the National Museum Wales in 1912, and sent to the British Museum for restoration where it was originally reconstructed from wax with the decoration attached by an adhesive.

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

His portrait, and that of his father William, are on display at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, adjacent to Cardiff Castle which the family owned and occupied for much of the sixteenth century.


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