MuseumsRaglan

Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums. With facilities to educate and entertain all ages, Big Pit is an exciting and informative day out.With facilities to educate and entertain all ages, Big Pit is an exciting and informative day out. Enjoy…
Distance: 10.7 miles away

The Blaenavon World Heritage Centre is the ideal starting point for your visit to the area. Located in the sympathetically restored former St. Peter's School, it provides an overview of how the stories of Blaenavon Industrial Landscape fit into the history of the region and explains why Blaenavon…
Distance: 10 miles away

Chepstow Museum displays the rich and varied past of this ancient town, once an important port and market centre. There are displays of Chepstow's wine trade, shipbuilding and salmon fishing as well as photographs, programmes and posters recalling the pastimes of local people. The 18th and 19th century…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

As well as being part of a natural cave system, when you visit Clearwell Caves, you are entering some of Britain's oldest underground workings, dating back over 4,500 years. You will be walking through impressive caverns created by generations of Forest people that made their living from…
Distance: 10.4 miles away

Step back in time at the National Roman Legion Museum and explore life in a far‐flung outpost of the mighty Roman Empire.Built in 1850, the museum became part of Amgueddfa Cymru ' National Museum Wales in 1930. Today at Caerleon you can learn what made the Romans a…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Abergavenny Museum is set in the grounds of a 'ruined' Norman Castle, where you can enjoy a picnic during the summer and a brisk walk on colder days. The museum building was formerly a hunting lodge built by the Marquess of Abergavenny.The displays tell the story of this…
Distance: 8.1 miles away

The Blaenavon Ironworks started production in 1789 and was to become the first purpose built multi‐furnace ironworks in Wales. At that time it was on the cutting edge of technology. The furnaces were coke fired and the blast provided by a steam engine. Blaenavon is now home to…
Distance: 10 miles away

The Nelson Museum was founded in 1924, following the bequest to Monmouth by Lady Llangattock of her collection of material relating to the famous admiral. The museum moved to the current premises a market hall complex built in the 1830s in 1969, at which time the local history…
Distance: 7.1 miles away

Based in the historic town of Usk, the Museum aims to conserve and display aspects of the history, heritage and traditions of rural life in the county of Monmouthshire. A recent report on provincial museums described the Usk Rural Life Museum as one of the best…
Distance: 4.5 miles away