There are not many countries with a longer history than the British Empire and as such, British museums.
The national Museum in Cardiff in Cathays Park has some of the world's most famous paintings showcased here.
There's an interactive area and you can examine artifacts usually kept in storage. Best of all, the Main Hall, as well as the Museum stores and the restaurant as in many large museums cost nothing to enter.
But if you are there you will want to pay the nominal admission fee so you can explore the various collections. The art collection houses the national Welsh Collection of Art - the works of Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and others are here for you to enjoy and savor. The art collection encompasses over 26,000 paintings.
Bonus though is the pages just for the web of items in the Archeology collection. Here you will discover the Evolution of Wales exhibit. Besides these collections, the museum has a library. In the libray is a core collection of general reference works. The archaeology department houses a history of the Roman Empire.
the Art library has information and catalogs from galleries from all over the world. The library has a botany and zoology section that has a large collection of British floras as well as journals that were donated to the library. The Maritime section is in a separate building with the history of the coal industry as well as maritime.
The British Museum is located at the Great Russell Street in London. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk was founded in 1753. It has the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures. There are paintings and drawings from the masters from 1600-1800. Upcoming exhibits: Gladiators and Caesars; also Picasso lino cuts; a selection from the permanent collection. It also has a marvellous archaelogy collection.
The Natural History museum at one time was a part of the British Museum. It opened in 1881. In 1963 it was made an independent museum. One spectacular piece of it is the one acre of wildlife gardent that brings the countryside into the heart of London. This wildlife garden is monitored and entered on a database.
In the life gallery a 26 metre (78 foot) dinosaur skeleton greets you when you enter the gallery. There are touch screens in various languages.
The Earth gallery has a huge sculpture of the earth is the centerpiece for this gallery. The constellations are etched into the slate walls. There is an escalator that goes through the globe into the Earth Gallery exhibit area.
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