The National Museum of Cardiff

a rock from the moon

 A fossil of shell

A small fossil

    The National Museum of Cardiff (in Welsh : Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and an art gallery in Cardiff. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh Assembly Government. It was built in 1907.. A new building was started in Cathays Park in 1912 but the First World War began and the work stopped. It opened to the public in 1927. The museum has collections of archaeology, art, geology and zoology.

The art gallery has works of a lot of Welsh artists, like Richard Wilson, Thomas Jones, Augustus and Gwen John. The favorite sculptor of Queen Victoria, John Gibson, has a lot of works in this museum. The most famous painting is La Parisienne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It's one of Europe's best collections of Impressionist works.

You can see the artefacts of our ancestor in Origins : in search of early Wales. A lot of stones, jar, coins, every days objects or piece of jewellery are preserved here.

In Evolution of Wales, you can learn what has happened from the Big-Bang to the present day. You can see dinausors' skeletons, sea monsters and a lot of (strange) fossils. A reconstitution of little dinosaurs and a big mammoth are in this room. Stones from the space are under your eyes !

A herbivorous dinosaur

A reconstitution of small dinosaurs

2 very dangerous dinosaurs

A giant sea monster

A lot of events are organized inside the museum every year, and new exibitions are open every month. In 2009, 373 191 people visited the National Museum of Cardiff.

This lively mammoth scared a lot of people

a skeleton of elk

Questions:

1/ How many people visited the Museum in 2009 ?
2/ What event stopped the construction of the museum ?
Written by Emilien