National Museum Cardiff
Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd | |
Location in Central Cardiff | |
Established | 1912 |
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Location | Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP, Wales |
Coordinates | 51°29′09″N 3°10′38″W / 51.4858°N 3.1773°W |
Visitors | 472,544 (2015) |
Public transit access | Cathays Cardiff Bus 27 |
Website | museum |
National Museum Cardiff (Welsh: Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh Government.[1]
History
The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1905, with its
The sculpture scheme for the building was devised by Sir
Present
The museum has collections of
In 2011, with funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation, the former Glanely Gallery was transformed into the Clore Discovery Centre, which offers hands-on exploration of the museum's 7.5 million items that are normally in storage, including insects, fossils and Bronze Age weapons. School groups, formal and informal groups can also be accommodated but should book in advance.[4]
National Museum of Art
The National Museum of Art opened in 2011.[6] The collection of Old Master paintings in Cardiff includes, among other notable works, The Virgin and Child between Saint Helena and St Francis by Amico Aspertini, The Poulterer's Shop by Frans Snyders, A Calm by Jan van de Cappelle[7] Since 2016, the museum has had Rembrandt's 1657 Portrait of Catharina Hooghsaet on permanent display.[8] In 2019, a painting depicting the Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate, which was thought to be a late copy by a lesser artist of a lost work by Sandro Botticelli featured on the television programme Britain's Lost Masterpieces where, after conservation treatment by Simon Gillespie and research by Bendor Grosvenor, it was confirmed to be from the studio of Botticelli, with parts by the master himself.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
A collection of landscape paintings in the classical tradition includes works by Claude, Gaspard Dughet, Salvator Rosa and two works by Nicolas Poussin: The Funeral of Phocion (1648) and The Finding of Moses (the latter owned jointly by the Museum and the National Gallery, London). These works prefigure the career of the Welsh-born Richard Wilson, called "the father of British landscape painting". In 1979 four cartoons for tapestries illustrating scenes from the Aeneid were bought as works by Peter Paul Rubens, but the attribution is now disputed.
There is a gallery devoted to British patronage of the 18th century, in particular that of Sir
The collection of
The art gallery has works by all of the notable
The collection of 20th-century art includes works by sculptors Jacob Epstein, Herbert Ward and Eric Gill and painters including Stanley Spencer, the British Impressionist Wynford Dewhurst, L. S. Lowry, and Oskar Kokoschka.[citation needed] Works by contemporary artists are on rotational display, including those by Luke Jones, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Rachel Whiteread. Pablo Picasso's Nature morte au poron was acquired in 2009.[23]
Black Lives Matter movement
In the wake of the removal of the
See also
References
- ^ "Highlights". National Museum Wales.
- ^ "National Museum Wales".
- ^ "National Museum Cardiff".
- ^ "Clore Discovery Centre | National Museum Wales". museumwales.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ^ "Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain". Museumwales.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ^ "National Museum of Art | National Museum Wales". Museumwales.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ A Calm - Jan van de Cappelle at the National Museum Wales
- ^ £35m Rembrandt painting goes on show in Cardiff via the BBC
- ^ Brown, Mark (13 November 2019). "Botticelli 'copy' in Welsh museum is genuine, experts say". The Guardian.
- ^ Passino, Carla (14 November 2019). "Botticelli 'copy' in a Welsh museum turns out to be the real thing worth tens of millions". Country Life.
- ^ Pes, Javier (14 November 2019). "A Museum in Wales Had a Botticelli Right Under Their Noses and Didn't Realize It Until This Helpful TV Art Detective Told Them". Artnet News.
- ^ Pryor, Riah (15 November 2019). "Thanks to a doodle, experts now say unattributed painting is by Botticelli". The Art Newspaper.
- ^ Salema, Isabel (17 November 2019). "O renascimento de um quadro de Botticelli deve-se a um programa de televisão". Publico.
- ^ "Una obra de Botticelli es redescubierta en el Museo Nacional de Gales". El País. 16 November 2019.
- ^ "Galles, il Botticelli "riscoperto" dopo un restauro. Era considerato una copia". La Repubblica. 18 November 2019.
- ^ Hakoun, Agathe (19 November 2019). "Un tableau de Botticelli redécouvert à Cardiff". Connaissance des Arts.
- ^ "Картина из запасников Национального музея Уэльса признана подлинной работой Боттичелли". Polit. 19 November 2019.
- ^ Spence, Rachel (20 December 2019). "Masters of surprise — a year of newly discovered art from Botticelli to Bruegel". Financial Times.
- ^ "The Davies Sisters / National Museum Cardiff".
- ^ "National Museum Wales acquires rare Richard Wilson portrait". Art Fund. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Thomas Jones, Pencerrig | The National Library of Wales". www.library.wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "The Bard - JONES, Thomas". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Nature Morte au Poron by Pablo Picasso". Art Fund. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ Robert Harries and Alex Seabrook (9 June 2020). "Monuments to brutal slave owner Thomas Picton in Carmarthen and Cardiff 'should be removed'". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ "Cardiff museum takes down slave owner Thomas Picton's portrait". BBC. 3 November 2021.
- ^ "Reframing Picton project". Retrieved 16 March 2024.
Further reading
- Mason, Rhiannon (2007), Museums, Nations, Identities: Wales and its National Museums, Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Osmond, John, ed. (2007), Myths, Memories and Futures: The National Library and National Museum in the Story of Wales, Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs
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