I meant to post this a fortnight ago but got sidetracked. Better late than never.......
What a beautiful day yesterday was. Usually as a family we rarely do anything on a Bank Holiday Monday but for a change we decided to go out for the day together. We decided to go to St Fagan's Museum in Cardiff. The museum is mainly outdoors with a various array of relocated buildings showing how people in Wales lived through the years, from Iron Age mud huts to an eco-friendly house.
It has been many years since I last visited St Fagan's Museum and I was very much looking forward to it, I'm a nerd and nothing makes me happier than spending a day wandering through a museum/gallery and yesterday was no exception. Everything was perfect, we were up nice and early, hadn't argued (which is rare for us) and the weather was scorching hot. The only problems we faced were firstly whether to take our own food or find somewhere to eat whilst we were there and parking. With it being a rare beautifully sunny Bank Holiday, it was odds on that every pleb would either have the same idea as us or go to the coast.
We arrived at about 10am and the car park wasn't full but wasn't empty, there was a huge queue for parking tickets near where we parked but 100 yard down the road there were three vending machines unused. I wasn't standing in line queuing like a knob lol. The added bonus for the day was , museums in Wales are free entry so the day only cost £3.50 for the parking ticket (excluding food and petrol), which was a pinch and if we had a nice day, we couldn't really complain.
Onto the museum, the museum is a huge former private home which is opened to the public, donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth in 1946. The museum boasts over forty original buildings from all corners of Wales, moved and erected in the museum grounds. The buildings include many farmhouses, chapels, a Workmen's Institute and the beautiful St Teilo's medieval church, presented in all it's splendour with colourfully crafted wall paintings on it's interior.
I thoroughly enjoyed the day out, it was a perfect day. The attractions were just as I remembered them, I made sure to visit every building and take lots of photographs. The buildings I loved the most were the Iron Age huts, St Fagan's Castle and Kennixton Farmhouse. The museum involves a lot of walking if you intend to make the most of it and see every building. Everything is laid out rather well, although it was a Bank Holiday and there was quite a high volume of visitors it didn't feel as if everything was on top of you. The main problem was people photo-bombing my pictures. It would be best to go back on a nice mid week day when people would be at work and children at school. That way the museum would be quiet and you can spend a leisurely day perusing all the attractions.
On the whole we all agreed it was the best family day out that we have had for a long time. It was a really cheap and enjoyable day, except petrol and parking we only paid for food, which was nice. I would go back again sometime. The museum I would like to visit next is Caerleon, which is a Roman museum based on an old Roman Town. It has the remains of a bath-house and the best example of a Roman amphitheatre in the UK.
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