St Fagans National History Museum is an open-air museum, located in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It showcases the history, culture and architecture of Wales from the ancient Celtic era to the present day. It is one of Europe's one of Europe's leading open-air museums and one of the most popular Welsh tourist attractions.
The museum was opened on 1 November 1948. It is located in the grounds of the magnificent St Fagans Castle and the surrounding gardens. St Fagans Castle is a fine example Elizabethan architecture and one of the most beautiful in Wales. It was built in 1580 It was built in 1580 and the interiors were extensively remodelled in the 19th century. Now the rooms are furnished as they were in the late 19th century, when the family of of Lord Robert Windsor, who gave the estate and gardens to the National Museum of Wales in 1946. to the National Museum of Wales. St Fagans Gardens is an Italianate garden laid out in 1902 and restored in 2003, fish ponds, fountains, a mulberry grove, a vineyard and a beautiful rose garden.
Over the 50 years of the museum's existence, more than forty original buildings, representing various historical eras, have been moved here and placed on the museum grounds. Visitors can see a chapel, a mill, a post office, dwellings, a pigsty and other buildings. Some of these exhibits operate on the principle of "living history" - a working blacksmith's shop, a mill and a weaving workshop. The products products of these workshops can be bought here in the souvenir shops. A lot of attention always attracts a lot of attention. They were built around a central and the walls were made of wattle and daubed with clay.
Since 1996, the museum has hosted a summer theater festival, which includes English and Welsh language children's parties.
