National Waterfront Museum

National Waterfront Museum
	National Waterfront Museum
	Museum location in Swansea, Wales
Location	Swansea, Wales
Coordinates	51°37′01″N 3°56′20″W / 51.616843°N 3.938820°W
Type	Maritime museum, Industry
Website	National Waterfront Museum

steam locomotive

The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS (Welsh: Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau) is a museum in Swansea, Wales, forming part of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Construction and development

Building and exhibition design was carried out by

Heritage Lottery Fund was opened in October 2005.^[3]

Consisting of a major new

Concerns have been raised about the lack of

multilingual voiceovers, as well as British Sign Language captioning on all interactive content.^[5]

Swansea Waterfront Winterland (November 2006 – Present) (Winter Wonderland Swansea) (November 2006; 17 years ago (November 2006))

Swansea Waterfront Winterland 2006 (November 2006 – January 2007) (November 2006; 17 years ago (November 2006))
Swansea Waterfront Winterland 2007 (November 2007 – January 2008) (November 2007; 16 years ago (November 2007))

^ "National Waterfront Museum, Swansea". Architects' Journal. February 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Tourism hopes as new museum opens", BBC News, 17 October 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ Gareth Jones (18 October 2005) "Split opinions on city makeover", BBC Wales News. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "Disabled groups' fury at access". BBC News Online. 7 January 2005.
^ "Heritage365: Articles: TECH- the Digital Revolution (National Waterfront Museum, Swansea)". Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2008.

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National	United States