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The
Brecknock Museum,
Brecon. The museum was established in 1928 and opened by Lady Buckland on
March 1st. It was initially housed in the old disused
Congregational Chapel in Glamorgan Street. Today, it occupies the imposing old Shire Hall of the old County of Brecknock,
built in 1842. In this building the regular Assize Court used to take place, but
when local governments was reorganized in 1974, the building was used for the
museum.
Sir John Conway Lloyd, a
distinguished gentleman antiquarian and enthusiasm brought the museum into
being. Many local people gave gifts and bequests, one of the first items being
the 8'th century canoe dug out of Llangorse Lake and given by Lord Glanusk. The
modern museum today has three floors and in 1985 was redecorated. The ground
floor has a foyer with a bookshop leading to a Natural History display which is
popular with children. The lower floor has a traditional Welsh kitchen, a
Blacksmiths shop and many farm implements. Upstairs the archaeology gallery
shows the progress of man from the stone ages onwards, and has Christian and
Roman stone Monuments and the Llangorse Canoe. Also intact from 1840 is the
Victorian courtroom. The top floor houses a four poster bed, slept on by Charles
1 when he came to Brecon in 1645, many costumes, Welsh Porcelain and a fine
collection of Old Welsh Lovespoons. There are temporary exhibitions, lectures
and events at the Museum.
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National Museums and
Galleries of Wales, NMGW, is an independent chartered body and a
registered charity with core funding through grant-in-aid from the Welsh
Assembly Government as an Assembly Sponsored Public Body. It has six museums:
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National Museum & Gallery in
Cathays Park, Cardiff
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Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans,
Cardiff
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Roman Legionary Museum in Caerleon,
Newport
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Welsh Slate Museum in Llanberis,
Gwynedd
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Museum of the Welsh Woollen
Industry in Dre-fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire
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Big Pit National Mining Museum of
Wales in Blaenafon,Torfaen
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