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CONTENTS Looking to the future

2 LOYALTY AND COMMITMENT 21 Our generous supporters

4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Our purpose

6 CHANGE AND RENEWAL President’s foreword 33

8 CREATING A FUTURE TOGETHER Director General’s introduction

10 PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT Investing in the nation’s museums

12 REVOLUTION AND INNOVATION The realisation of the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

14 SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY How we supported the aspirations of the Welsh Assembly Government

18 COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS At the heart of everything we do

35 PROJECTS AND PARTNERS Working with Wales and the World

36 SERVICE AND STANDARDS Running world-class museums of learning

42 COURT AND COUNCIL The governance of our museums

44 SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENT For the year ending 31 March 2005 27

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LOYALTY AND COMMITM E Our generous supporters

Trusts, Foundations and other major supporters Academi Anonymous donations The Atlantic Foundation Cardiff & Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association City & County of Swansea Coalfields Regeneration Trust European Regional Development Fund European Union Objective 1 The Foyle Foundation G C Gibson Charitable Trust Garfield Weston Foundation The Simon Gibson Charitable Trust Heritage Lottery Fund Leonardo Da Vinci Grant The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales The Llysdinam Trust National Art Collections Fund The Oakdale Trust The Pilgrim Trust Royal Society The president and Council would like to The SR & PH Southall Charitable Trust thank the following, and those who wish to Wales Tourist Board remain anonymous, for their generous Welsh Assembly Government support in the period from 1 April 2004 to Welsh Development Agency 31 March 2005. Weston Family The Derek Williams Trust The Wolfson Foundation Corporate Sponsors Arts & Business Cymru Friends of NMGW Barclays Plc Legal & General History Makers Supporters Swansea City Waste Disposal Company Ltd Tarmac Limited Major Individual Donors and Patrons Anonymous donors David H. Andrews Corporate In-Kind Supporters Mrs E. M. Austin Community Union Leslie and Marian Beckett Corus Strip Products UK David and Carole Burnett Deborah Services Limited Peter Charles Maskreys Limited Dan Clayton-Jones Esq. Alfred McAlpine Slate Products Dr Sarah Cockbill South Wales Evening Post A. Coleman

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Mrs Valerie Courage Christopher L. Pollard OBE To find out how Robert and Rhian Croydon Mathew Prichard you can supprt us, Geraint Talfan Davies Eirlys Pritchard Jones please contact Walter and Shael Dickie Anthony Pugh the Head of Eleri Ebenezer Lord Raglan Development on Dr Nancy Edwards Lord Rees +44 (0)29 2057 3148 Gerard and Elizabeth Elias Dr Colin J. Richards Lewis J. Evans John Roberts Marion Evans Anita Rogers and Julian Burrell Mrs Christine Eynon Mike and Mary Salter Roger and Kathy Farrance Richard and Gaynor Smart Mr David Fine Dr P. M. Smith John Foster Thomas Jaci Stephen Pearl E. Gayther Roger G. Thomas Mrs Celia and Mr Simon Gibbs Ken and Fran Truman Mr James Gibbs David and Christine Vokes John Newton Gibbs Mrs Meriel Watkins Dr John and Mrs Elizabeth Gibbs John and Hilary Weber Mr William Gibbs Richard N. Weston and Linda Prosper Mr Andrew Goldsworthy Gibbs Drs D. M. J. and M. V. Williams Christopher Gridley Ruth and Gareth Williams Michael Griffith Dr W. B. Willott Loyd Grossman OBE Derek Woolley Sir Richard Hanbury-Tenison Cherry Wright Mrs Judith Hart Professor and Mrs Luke Herrmann Mrs Jo Hirst Life Patrons G. Wyn Howells Anonymous Life Patron Mrs Ray Howells Enid Child David Watson James OBE Capt. Norman Lloyd Edwards Jane Jenkins Dr Margaret Elmes Anne and Hywel Jones Sigi and Wynford Evans Terry Jones Mr and Mrs R. A. Forster Ian and Julia Kelsall Nigel and Jane Gibbs Miss Pat Kernick Christopher Gridley Neil Kinnock Mrs Joan Gridley Dafydd Bowen Lewis Dr Margaret Berwyn Jones Dr Hilary Lloyd Yewlett Malcolm and Monica Porter Gerry and Pat Long R. Paul Russell L. Hefin Looker Anna Southall Paul and Lynne Loveluck Julian Mitchell Howard Moore In memory of Patrons who sadly John and Doreen Morgan passed away during the year Mr and Mrs John Gordon Phillips D. T. Glan Evans Michael and Siân Phipps William Howells The Rt Hon. the Earl of Plymouth Angela Prichard

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Our purpose PHOTO © PAUL AVIS © PAUL PHOTO

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The National Museums & Galleries of Wales (NMGW) was established by Royal Charter in 1907 as ‘The National Museum of Wales’. An independent registered charity, NMGW receives its core funding through grant-in- aid from the Welsh Assembly Government as an Assembly Sponsored Public Body.

Our core objective is ‘the advancement of the education of the public’, by developing, caring for, studying and sustaining access to the collections, for the benefit of society in perpetuity. The Charter (1907, revised 1991) states that this is to be achieved:

‘primarily by the complete illustration of the geology, mineralogy, zoology, botany, ethnography, archaeology, art, history and special industries of Wales by collection, conservation, elucidation, presentation and publication of objects and things.’

During 2004-05 our objectives were:

• To promote a wide understanding and knowledge of Wales’s heritage, culture and role in world development and history.

• To provide Wales with a national museum service that is an international centre of excellence, ensuring the best possible care for our continually expanding collections of national and international renown and importance.

• To encourage research, study and appreci- ation of the arts, humanities, sciences and technology through our collections and expertise.

• To inspire an ever-widening audience to visit and enjoy our excellent museums and benefit from their diverse resources and facilities.

• To develop wisely and use creatively and effectively all our resources, ensuring max- imum efficiency and value for money.

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CHANGE AND RENEWAL President’s foreword

Welcome to the 2004-05 Annual Report of an organization that is well on the way to trans- forming itself. As we approach the centenary of the founding of the National Museum of Wales in 1907, we are putting in place several building blocks that will be the foundation for creating a world-class museum of learn- ing fit for the needs of the twenty-first centu- ry. The award of the Gulbenkian Museum of the Year prize for 2005 to Big Pit: National Mining Museum, indicates that we are well on the way.

We are formulating a new vision for the future. Our role has been re-assessed and the themes on which we will concentrate have been identified. This has involved an extensive and ongoing consultation exercise.

The preparation of a ten-year master plan has begun, but its main features are already clear. With the opening of the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea in October we will have completed major redevelop- ment of our industrial museums, and the intention over the next ten years is to devel- op the National Museum & Gallery in Cardiff and the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans. In the former, the focus will be on natural his- tory and on art, where we hope to increase the amount of display area within the con- fines of the existing building by forty per cent. At the Museum of Welsh Life we hope to develop more gallery space, so that we can provide better interpretation of the re- erected buildings and a more comprehen- sive account of the history of the people and communities who have lived in Wales. By 2007, this work will be underway, with a major exhibition on the theme of our origins and identity.

Some of the features of our existing work will be strengthened. Our exhibitions will exploit the advantage we have as a multi- disciplinary museum, able to draw on natu- ral history, archaeology, ethnography, indus-

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try and art collections. We will create more The Welsh Assembly Government has been temporary exhibitions to explore topical extremely supportive of our aspirations. issues. For example, in the light of the disas- Financial aid is helping us remedy deficien- ter in south-east Asia on 26 December, the cies in storage and a backlog of maintenance Geology and the Exhibitions departments work at the National Museum & Gallery and swiftly produced a small exhibition explain- the Museum of Welsh Life. In addition, ing tsunamis, which was shown in the money was made available that we were National Museum & Gallery and at the able to use at short notice to replace old dis- National Assembly for Wales. play cases for some of our ceramics collec- tion. The Welsh Assembly Government has also been sympathetic in supporting our attempts to meet the deficit in the Pension we are creating a Fund, which remains a top priority. world-class museum The personal enthusiasm and involvement of Alun Pugh AM, the Minister for Culture, of learning for the the Welsh Language and Sport, is also much 21st century appreciated. On behalf of the Council, I express apprecia- tion for the ongoing support of our Friends We aim to engage in more outreach work and Patrons. As our family within the with local communities and we will continue National Museums & Galleries of Wales the development of our partnership pro- increases, I hope we can encourage more gramme with local museums and galleries, such support for all our individual museums. helping them to develop exhibitions drawing from the national collections. Currently we I am extremely grateful to my fellow Council have ten such partners, and we are also members for their contributions and sup- members of Segontium Cyf., a local partner- port, particularly the Vice President, Susan ship now running the Roman museum at Davies, the Treasurer, Wyn Howells, the Chair Caernarfon in north Wales. of our Pension Trust, Wynford Evans, and the Chair of NMGW Enterprises, Dafydd Bowen Alongside our work to set a new direction Lewis. All our thanks go to the Director for the Museum, we have been discussing General, Michael Houlihan, his fellow new arrangements for our governance. Directors and staff, who make the National Agreement has been reached with the Museum such a lively institution to be asso- Museum’s Court and the Welsh Assembly ciated with, and a pleasure to serve. Government for the winding up of the Court and changes to how we appoint Council members. The changes will also involve new Paul Loveluck arrangements for consulting with the President Museum’s stakeholders. In the light of our position as a registered charity, the propos- als have been submitted to the Charity Commission for comment before approach- ing the Privy Council with a petition for a Supplemental Charter to bring them into effect.

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CREATING A FUT Director General’s introduction

The National Museums & Galleries of Wales consultative and participative arrangements has created a strong reputation for its com- to ensure that we continue to create and mitment to education and excellence. Over shape the future of Wales’s national muse- the years, we have built our success as a ums together with all our stakeholders. ‘learning organization’ on this foundation. The responses indicated strong support for We attract some of the most professional significant capital developments to improve and skilled curators in the UK. We reach out the visitor experience at the National to schools and universities, and give back to Museum & Gallery, the Museum of Welsh the public the knowledge from the collec- Life and the Roman Legionary Museum, and tions. to developing and communicating the col- lections for an even wider range of memo- Over the next decades, we want to become rable learning experiences, both at our equally renowned for our innovation and rel- museums and beyond them. evance to a diverse, contemporary society in Wales and beyond. One of the first obvious results is the deci- sion to simplify and modernise our name. These are not the attributes that some peo- We will soon be introducing our new name, ple associate with museums – but by ‘Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum encouraging more direct public ownership, Wales’, which will hopefully avoid our name we hope to change people’s perceptions. The being reduced to an acronym, and illustrate help and involvement of our stakeholders our clear commitment to mainstreaming the will be fundamental to how contemporary Welsh language. issues will be debated and presented in fresh and challenging ways. The publication of this Annual Report for 2004-05 broadly coincides with the official opening of the new National Waterfront we want to become Museum in Swansea in October. We hope visitors will experience the people-centred renowned for our approach of this stunning new museum as a innovation and model for our future way of working, in line with the ethos of Creating the Future relevance to a diverse Together.

contemporary society During the year, the Council agreed to a in Wales and beyond strategy of investment in collections care and access, most notably at the Museum of Welsh Life and the National Museum & Towards the end of 2004-05, we held a major Gallery in Cardiff, as well as at the National consultation with the public, our stakehold- Conservation & Access Centre in Nantgarw, ers and staff on Creating the Future Together in the south Wales valleys. – our vision for the next ten years. This will meet all of our objectives in terms Some 1,300 people participated in this of the technical care of our collections, as process, and the feedback is influencing our well as bringing wider access and signifi- plans for the next decade. As a result, we cantly reducing the need to separate collec- are looking forward to implementing new tions from their museums. It also accords

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well with the 2004 National Audit Office report Collections Management at NMGW, which recommended that issues of conser- vation and storage should be considered in conjunction with access.

we attract some of the most professional and skilled curators in the UK

The total cost of the project is likely to be in the order of £5.2m, of which £3.5m has been received from the Welsh Assembly Government. Work has already started, with full completion expected in 2007-08.

We also started to address another funda- mental infrastructure issue, through com- pleting a comprehensive review of the con- dition of our estate. The review demonstrat- ed that significant capital investment is required to address the backlog in repairs and maintenance that has accumulated over a number of years. The Welsh Assembly Government has since allocated £3m over three years to allow many of these issues to be addressed in a strategic manner.

We are grateful to the Welsh Assembly Government and in particular to Alun Pugh AM, the Minister for Culture, the Welsh Language and Sport, for their strong support – both moral and financial – for all the devel- opments and projects outlined above. It is a clear demonstration of their commitment to promoting the heritage and culture of Wales and ensuring that free public access to our national museums is sustainable in the long term.

Michael Houlihan Director General

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT Investing in the nation’s museums

During 2004-05 we directly operated national museums in six locations across Wales:

• The National Museum & Gallery Cathays Park, Cardiff • The Museum of Welsh Life St Fagans, Cardiff • The Roman Legionary Museum Caerleon, Newport • The Welsh Slate Museum Llanberis, Gwynedd • The National Woollen Museum Dre-fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire • Big Pit: National Mining Museum Blaenafon, Torfaen. BIG PIT Left: Following £7.1m capital redevelopment, The National Woollen In addition, we are currently involved Big Pit was re-launched to the public in April Museum, in partnership arrangements for the 2004. As a result, Big Pit received 145,898 after major management of two other sites: visits in 2004-05 against a target of 130,000 redevelopment work (+12%) and 28,195 more visits than in • Segontium Roman Museum 2003-04 (+24%). This success was crowned in Above: Caernarfon, Gwynedd June 2005 when Big Pit won the £100,000 Big Pit’s famous miner-guides • Turner House Gallery Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year – Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. the largest arts prize in the UK.

The completion of major capital develop- NATIONAL WOOLLEN MUSEUM ments at two of our museums – Big Pit and After being closed for two years for a £2.6m the National Woollen Museum – resulted in investment programme, the National substantially increased visitor figures. In Woollen Museum re-opened on 31 March addition, the development of the National 2004. As a result, a total of 18,927 visits were Waterfront Museum, a new national industrial made in 2004-05. This figure represents a and maritime museum in Swansea’s 110% increase on 2000-01 (the last year of maritime quarter, reached its final stages. admission charges).

in June 2005 Big Pit won the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year - the largest arts prize in the UK

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REVOLUTION AND INNOVATION The realisation of the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea

The redevelopments at Big Pit and the Board and a range of other funders, as well National Woollen Museum formed an inte- as vital assistance from the Welsh Assembly gral part of our Strategy for Industry. With Government. the support of the Welsh Assembly Below: Government and other funding partners, The Museum is the first national museum to First Minister around £40m has been invested to celebrate be developed in the new free entry era. The Rhodri Morgan switches the the industrial heritage of Wales, including architects Wilkinson Eyre – creators of the power on at the development of the new National award-winning ‘winking eye’ bridge at the National Waterfront Museum. Gateshead – and the exhibition designers, Waterfront Museum, with Land Design Studio, have incorporated a Andrew Davies The early part of the year saw the building unique layout that maximizes accessibility. AM (left) and completed and this milestone was marked Alun Pugh AM by Welsh Assembly Government First This will be a museum for people of every Right: Minister, the Rt Hon. Rhodri Morgan and the background, and a national beacon for UK ‘Robin Goch’, Culture Minister, Alun Pugh AM switching and overseas visitors alike. It will explain the aeroplane that used to hang the power on. how economic, industrial and social change in the Main Hall led to Wales becoming the world’s first truly of the National The National Waterfront Museum was devel- industrialized nation. It will tell the story of Museum & Gallery in Cardiff, oped in conjunction with the City & County the remarkable transformation of Wales by can now be seen of Swansea, and involves an investment of illuminating the experiences of those people in the National over £30m. Major grants were received from involved, with a diverse array of objects, Waterfront Museum in the Heritage Lottery Fund, the EU, the Welsh images and testimonies.By placing the Swansea Development Agency, the Wales Tourist stories of ordinary people at the heart of the Museum, we hope to appeal to a much wider audience than an industrial and maritime museum might otherwise attract.

To complement the interactive environment, learning resources have been integrated into the galleries, in addition to two dedicated education spaces. These ‘learning zones’ will offer opportunities for everyone, whether primary school pupils or lifelong learners, to handle objects from the collections and examine archive materials.

The Museum officially opens in October 2005, and coincides with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. A fitting coincidence, as it was the technolo- gy that utilised Welsh copper and iron that helped Nelson win his famous victory.

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£40m has been invested to celebrate the industrial heritage of Wales PHOTO © ROB WATKINS / WWW.ROB.WATKINS.CO.UK / WATKINS © ROB PHOTO

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SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY How we supported the aspirations of the Welsh Assembly Government PHOTO © PAUL AVIS © PAUL PHOTO

We share a broad common vision with our Through our outstanding collections, cura- sponsoring body, the Welsh Assembly torial excellence and educational expertise, Government. The aspect of their strategic we are ideally placed to strengthen toler- plan, Wales: A Better Country, most relevant ance, citizenship and mutual respect for the to us is that of ‘developing strong and safe diverse communities of Wales and the communities’, which includes a commit- world. ment to ‘strengthening Wales’s cultural identity and helping to create a bilingual Here, we outline how we supported the country.’ Welsh Assembly Government strategic plan and its underlying policies in 2004-05, and By promoting museum-visiting as an every- we highlight some of the ways in which we day part of life, we have a vital role to play are working with other Assembly in providing opportunities for lifelong learn- Sponsored Public Bodies to achieve these ing and promoting social awareness. objectives.

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‘LEARNING TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY’ Assembly Government priorities How our work supports this priority

To use resources from European Our Strategy for Industry has enabled an programmes including Objective investment of £40m in Objective 1 areas to One funding in ways that support celebrate the industrial heritage of Wales. sustainable development, promote The strategy culminates with the opening genuine local partnerships and of the National Waterfront Museum in develop the social economy. Swansea in October 2005 (see page 12). PHOTO © JAMES BRITTAIN © JAMES PHOTO ‘CREATIVE FUTURE – CYMRU CREADIGOL’

Assembly Government priorities How our work supports this priority

To review opportunities for As well as engaging with over 200,000 visitors in formal education groups, over 160,000 visitors lifelong learning in cultural engaged in informal learning. We also offered educational activities to over 175,000 people subjects through formal education outside our Museum sites (see page 38). and community initiatives.

To review the feasibility of having In consultation with the Arts Council for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government, we agreed a wider range of quality art a strategy for reviewing the options for the future display of our art collections. gallery spaces across Wales.

To develop public art policies. We are working with Cywaith Cymru on a public art strategy for the new National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.

To review the options for As part of our consultation process on Creating the Future Together we have examined the providing a ‘one-stop venue’ for possibility of creating a museum of the history of the people and communities of Wales at the an overview of Welsh history. Museum of Welsh Life by moving the archaeological displays there and developing new interpretation of the re-erected buildings.

To develop a cultural tourism As part of our contribution towards strengthening the Welsh economy, we have continued to strategy. play a key role in the Herian Initiative and the Wales Tourist Board’s Cultural Tourism Strategy, two major initiatives which will establish Wales as an international cultural tourism destination.

The Herian (Heritage in Action) initiative is a cultural-heritage-focused economic regeneration initiative, backed by a broad partnership of south Wales local authorities, national public bodies, voluntary organizations and the private sector.

Through the development of cultural tourism gateways, we continue to work closely with the Wales Tourist Board to ensure that its Cultural Tourism Strategy creates opportunities that spread the benefits of free entry to our museums and galleries to the wider tourism industry in Wales.

Big Pit and the Welsh Slate Museum have been designated as ‘Anchor Points’ on their respective European Routes of Industrial Heritage.

To provide free entry to the During 2004-05, the fourth year of free entry supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, over national museums. 1.3m visits were made to our museums, more than 76% above the total for the last year of admission charges (2000-01).

To promote cultural activity. We have developed a number of successful activities that engage with and celebrate the diverse ethnic communities of Wales, for instance our Wales and the World Festival.

‘IAITH PAWB’

Assembly Government priorities How our work supports this priority

Mainstreaming the Welsh We have begun the implementation of our Welsh Language Mainstreaming Strategy, which will language. ensure that assessing the potential impact of our activities on the ‘health’ of the language and the rights and welfare of Welsh speakers will become integral to our ethos and policy development.

Tourism. We have worked closely with the Wales Tourist Board to ensure that the Cultural Tourism Strategy creates opportunities to promote the bilingual culture of Wales and to develop the Museum of Welsh Life as a key Cultural Tourism Gateway.

Developing a training programme In collaboration with ELWa, we have launched and developed Llwybrau Llafar, a resource that for Welsh language tutors. enables adults to use the Museum of Welsh Life to improve their Welsh language skills while exploring Welsh history and culture at the same time.

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VOLUNTARY SECTOR SCHEMES Assembly Government priorities How our work supports this priority

Creating a civil society that is Building on the success of the On Common Ground pilot scheme, we will deliver a two-year inclusive and enables people to initiative in five communities across Wales – Caerphilly, Torfaen, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea participate in all its economic and Ceredigion. On Common Ground 2 will encourage young people to explore aspects of their and cultural activities. cultural heritage and create high-quality projects, while at the same time gaining skills and accreditation, enabling them to progress to other forms of education and employment.

‘MAKING THE CONNECTIONS’ ’ Assembly Government aspirations How our work supports this priority

Greater efficiency in the delivery We are working with the National Library of Wales in assessing how both bodies might achieve of public services. greater efficiency by closer collaboration in a range of functions.

The final total of visits for 2004-5 was 1,318,486 against a target of 1,250,000

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES Our Operational Plan for 2004-05 contains indicators against which our performance can be measured. It is particularly pleasing to note an increase in the total number of visitors to the museums.

The final total of visits for 2004-05 was 1,318,486 against a target of 1,250,000. This total was 68,486 (+5.5%) above the target agreed with the Welsh Assembly Government. The increased target for 2005- 06 is 1.4 million (1.3m for the six current sites and an additional 100,000 to reflect the impact of opening the National Waterfront Museum in October 2005).

VISITS TO OUR MUSEUMS 2004-05 2003-04 Variance from target Variance on 2003-04

Museum Actual Target Actual number % number %

National Museum & Gallery 293,770 281,000 274,580 12,770 4.5 19,190 7.0

Museum of Welsh Life 652,998 610,000 627,138 42,998 7.0 25,860 4.1

Roman Legionary Museum 69,206 66,000 65,041 3,206 4.9 4,165 6.4

National Woollen Museum 18,927 35,000 580 -16,073 -45.9 18,347 3,163.3

Welsh Slate Museum 137,687 128,000 137,164 9,687 7.6 523 0.4

Big Pit 145,898 130,000 117,703 15,898 12.2 28,195 24.0

TOTAL 1,318,486 1,250,000 1,222,206 68,486 5.48 96,280 7.88

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we are ideally placed to strengthen tolerance, citizenship and mutual respect for the diversity of communities in Wales and the world

OTHER KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Performance Indicator measuring core objectives 2003-04 actual 2004-05 target 2004-05 actual

Number of visitors in education related parties a) Formal education 214,377 209,000 217,231 b) Informal education 161,843 156,000 167,854

% of general visitors from socially disadvantaged groups 32% 38% 32%

% of collections interpreted through electronic media d 12.3% 13% 12.7%

Number of website visits 719,144 826,000 961,534

Number of website visits over 10 minutes 55,957 64,000 116,762

d based on size of collection suitable for electronic access – 4,100,000

Number of collection enquiries 22,873 21,000 22,196

Number of research projects 79 75 101

Number of participants in off-site activities e.g. lectures 221,814 185,000 207,085

Number of venues to which loans have been made 367 340 366

% collections documented for inventory controla 37.8% 40% 42.3 %

% of collections cataloguedb 21.5% 22.5% 23.4%

a Based on total collection size of 4,700,000. Inventory level records contain basic information that allows an item to be identified and located e.g. accession no, title or object name, location, status – loan, purchase, donation etc. b Based on total collection size of 4,700,000. Catalogue level records will have the same information as for inventory, but will also include academic data such as references to publications.

% of time lost through sickness absence 3.66% 3.8% 3.57%

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National Museum & Gallery

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The National Museum & Gallery in Cardiff is rary art, supporting the purchase of works Left (top): unique among national museums in the UK by Richard Deacon, Evelyn Williams and Tim The National Museum & in its range of arts and science displays. It Davies. Dr Betty Meehan presented our first Gallery in houses the National Art Gallery alongside piece of Australian Aboriginal art, Salt Water Cardiff the departments of Archaeology & Crocodile by Mick Kubarrku, from the collec- Left (bottom): Numismatics, Geology and Biodiversity & tion of her husband, Professor Rhys Alfred Sisley’s Systematic Biology. Maengwyn Jones. Storr Rock, Lady’s Cove – the Evening. ART The year also saw sustained research for the Sisley was For the Department of Art 2004-05 was pri- book Colour and Light: 50 Impressionist the only marily a year of partnerships and collabora- works at the National Museum of Wales, for Impressionist to work in Wales tion. This included an exhibition of our publication in June 2005. The year ended Victorian drawings on tour in the United with the eagerly awaited replacement of the Below: States, co-operation with the Tate over the pre-war ceramics showcases on the bal- The 4th-century Roman dish exhibition Gwen John and Augustus John conies by a suite of new units that will trans- from the and the launch of our visual arts partner- form appreciation of this important but little- Mildenhall ships scheme in Wales. known collection. Treasure, found in 1942. The dish was one of The early part of the year had a contempo- ARCHAEOLOGY & NUMISMATICS the highlights of the exhibition rary flavour with Further: Wales at the Venice The exhibition Buried Treasure, a partnership Buried Treasure Biennale. In contrast, we were also delighted project with the British Museum, which was by the success of something very different – generously sponsored by Tarmac, was Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks: The Virgin attended by over 48,500 in Cardiff between and Child in Renaissance Italy. This serene May and September 2004. The exhibition masterpiece, recently acquired by the brought together some of the most spectac- National Gallery, London, was presented ular treasures ever found in alongside some of our own works and other Britain. Many of the finds works from the National Gallery and the were discovered by chance Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea. – by farmers, beach- combers and, more The generosity of the Colwinston Charitable recently, metal detec- Trust and Cardiff 2005 (the project to cele- tor users. brate Cardiff’s centenary as a city and fifty Excavations at years as Wales’s capital) brought the exhibi- Llanmaes, Vale of tion Gwen John and Augustus John to Glamorgan, revealed Cardiff from London. For its showing here, a roundhouse and pits our conservation staff produced an entirely of Late Bronze Age to new section exploring how the brother and Early Iron Age date. The sister developed their working methods and project is shedding new techniques. The latter part of the year also light on a large assemblage saw two excellent and contrasting smaller of cauldrons and axes from the exhibitions, Turner in North Wales, also in site, some of Breton manufacture. collaboration with the Tate, and An Art- These new finds also enhance the dating of Accustomed Eye: John Gibbs and Art similar objects in the internationally impor- Appreciation in Wales. tant Llyn Fawr hoard from the Rhondda.

A rare addition was made to our holdings of The Department has continued to strengthen French Impressionist art, one of the most links with partners, advising Cadw and co- celebrated areas of the collection, when we directing surveys and excavations with bought one of the seascapes painted by Giffords and Marine Archaeological Research MUSEUM THE BRITISH © PHOTO Alfred Sisley on his visit to Wales in 1897. Consultants on the site of the early medieval Storr Rock, Lady’s Cove – the Evening, a royal crannog on Llangors Lake. The Gower beach scene (left), was purchased crannog was the subject of a fieldwork pro- with the support of the National Art gramme in partnership with Cardiff Collections Fund. University between 1989 and 1993. The recent fieldwork, in advance of the The Cardiff-based charity, the Derek Williams implementation of a protection scheme for Trust, has continued to help us build our this internationally significant site, has major collection of modern and contempo- revealed new information on the crannog’s

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construction and rare examples of early We reacted swiftly to the tragic south-east medieval metalwork, including the terminal Asian tsunami disaster in December by from a drinking horn in the form of a beast’s developing a small exhibition on tsunamis at head. the National Museum & Gallery, the Welsh Assembly Government building in Cardiff The Portable Antiquities Scheme, supported and the National Library in Aberystwyth. by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Welsh The website Mineralogy of Wales was devel- Assembly Government, recorded over 3,000 oped, with all existing data expanded and artefacts, and shed light on many new updated and many new photographs includ- archaeological sites. Excellent progress has ed. The work was undertaken with match been made on computerizing the documen- funding from the Countryside Council for tation of the collections, with a further Wales, and Culturenet Cymru completed the 115,070 artefacts and coins being so docu- technical work. mented and repackaged. A number of staff worked on television pro- grammes, including BBC Wales’s Natural the National Museum & History of Wales and the BBC2 series Natural Gallery in Cardiff is unique History of Britain. We continued to expand our work on amongst national museums Applied Geology, including the publication in the UK in its range of arts of the book Urban Geology of Wales; fund- ing was provided by a consortium of geo- and science displays engineering and consulting companies. We also continued our work on building stones via the Welsh Stone Forum. A contribution to At the National Museum & Gallery, seventy- A Corpus of Early Medieval Stones as Stone seven per cent of the records of the archaeo- Sculptures in Wales, to be published by the logical collection, and ninety per cent at the University of Wales Press, was completed. Roman Legionary Museum, have now been computerized, as well as eighty-two per cent BIODIVERSITY & SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY of the coins and medals. The vascular plant (flowers and ferns) sec- tion of the National Herbarium of Wales con- Our website WalesPast published over fifty tains specimens dating as far back as 1830. articles on topics relating to our collections Since its creation in 1912, the section has and ranging from Neanderthals in Wales to increased from 3,500 to 400,000 specimens, Druids and industrial archaeology. It includ- making it the fifth largest in the UK. ed contributions from colleagues from a wide range of other organizations. Since its There is an increasing relevance to the con- launch it has received very positive feedback servation and biology of the endangered from users, and by the end of its first full and rare species peculiar to Wales. There are year online we expect it to have received also groups of plants that are taxonomically over 200,000 page views. complex and difficult to identify, and here further collecting and analyses are leading GEOLOGY to new publications. The international significance of the Geology Department’s work was promoted widely Specimens from the herbarium are invalu- throughout the year. Three members of staff able tools in teaching identification skills, made presentations at the 5th International and many, along with those from other sec- Museums and Mineralogy Conference in tions of the Department, were used to deliv- Paris, including one on an excursion to the er training to practitioners responsible for Alps related to the understanding of styles species listed in the Countryside and Rights of mineralization in Wales. Five members of of Way Act. We delivered 180 placements staff attended the Annual Meeting of the through three courses across Wales. Palaeontological Association in Lille, France, Attendees came from a variety of organiza- with various items highlighting some of the tions including the Countryside Council for current research in collaboration with the Wales, the Environment Agency, wildlife Universities of Cardiff, Uppsala (Sweden), trusts, national park authorities and local Esfahan (Iran) and Kerman (Iran). authorities. On completion, we produced a

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compendium of data sheets entitled tor water quality, and a one-year water quali- Above left: Biodiversity Wales - Species of conservation ty monitoring programme has begun at A perfect tabular anatase crystal or special interest to Wales. Identification Cardiff Bay and the rivers Taff and Ely in from Tanygrisiau, training will be a key focus for further devel- Cardiff. Diatom biodiversity in mid-Wales near Blaenau opment in the years to come, and will hop- ponds is being investigated in conjunction Ffestiniog fully excite and inspire the next generation with a major amphibian survey to explore Above: of naturalists. the possibility of using diatoms as indicators The Leafhopper bugs Raphirhinus for wildlife conservation. In Cardiff Bay a phosphoreus, A major new international project began this joint research post with the Cardiff Harbour as featured year with funding from the Leverhulme Authority is monitoring the changing popu- in a major new Trust. Around 2,300 species of ‘sharpshoot- lations of midges, and the role of issues like project to illustrate all er’ Leafhopper bugs (Hemiptera) are known temperature and algal cover on their num- 2,300 species worldwide. Many are important in spreading bers. Over twenty species of midge have in colour plant diseases, especially on citrus trees and now been identified. grapevines. Despite many being very colour- ful, current identification keys lack images In September 2004, we were successful in and are difficult for the non-specialist to use. purchasing a historically significant shell This project will illustrate all species in cabinet at auction. This magnificent wooden colour, and develop new keys to be made cabinet originally housed the collection of available on the internet or on CD-ROM. Wales’s most famous shell collector, John Gwyn Jeffreys. Jeffreys was born in Our considerable contributions to marine Swansea and educated at Swansea biodiversity are now being mirrored in fresh- Grammar School, where he received his first water environments through two initiatives lessons in shell collecting. He worked as a using diatoms and chironomid midges as lawyer, but was an active local natural histo- indicators of environmental change. We are rian and held various posts in the British supporting the River Wye liming project by Association and the Marine Biological monitoring acidification of streams pre- and Association, and was elected to the post-liming using diatoms, in collaboration Fellowship of the Royal Society. His most with Cardiff University, the Wye and Usk significant piece of work was British NATIONAL Foundation and the Centre of Ecology and Conchology; it was issued in five volumes MUSEUM Hydrology in Bangor. between 1862 and 1869, and is still a stan- & GALLERY dard source of reference. After our Furniture CATHAYS PARK A major stream survey was performed in the Conservator completes restoration work, the CARDIFF Taff and Ely river catchment areas to moni- cabinet will be put on display. CF10 3NP

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Museum of Welsh Life

the Christmas event saw figures rise for the third year running and 2004 saw some 9,600 visitors over the three nights

Above: One of Europe’s leading open-air museums, aisle, and all associated timberwork was com- Work is almost complete on the The Museum of Welsh Life is part of our group pleted. With the roofing almost complete, roof of the of four Social & Industrial History museums; work is also moving apace on plastering the medieval church it is home to our largest curatorial depart- walls and ceilings of the nave and chancel. from Llandeilo Tal-y-bont ment, Social & Cultural History. Visitors can explore and enjoy over 2,000 years of histo- Work on the Tales from Welsh Tradition Right: ry in over forty re-erected period buildings Bearers web pages is now complete The famous home-economist that have been collected from all over Wales. (www.welshfolktales.org). The pages present Marguerite a selection of folk narratives from the exten- Patten came to Another historical building – albeit a small sive collections in our sound archive, setting help the Museum of one – has been added to the collections at St them in their international context. Welsh Life mark Fagans. Cae Adda Byre (opposite), from We also put 144 recordings resulting from the 60th Waunfawr near Caernarfon, was opened to the Voices of Agriculture (Lleisiau anniversary of the end of WWII the public in June 2004. Situated next to Amaethyddiaeth) project into our sound Llainfadyn cottage from Rhostryfan, the byre archive. This project was funded by The Far right: enables us to provide a fuller picture of a Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust The cow byre brought from quarryman’s way of life. and Trinity College Carmarthen, and was Cae Adda in aimed at creating a databank of oral and pic- north Wales It is very much in the same building tradition torial information on the changes and influ- as Llainfadyn cottage, having walls built of ences that have affected the Welsh agricultur- large mountain boulders and a roof covered al industry and its environment since 1947. with small slates. The project provided a wonderful opportunity to work with the local The sound archive has also acquired the col- community in north Wales, both at the stage lection of 318 recordings and associated of dismantling the building and its re-erec- documents resulting from the Welsh Dialect tion at St Fagans. We worked with artists to Survey. This was a major phonological proj- develop projects with Ysgol Waunfawr, the ect undertaken by the Board of Celtic local school, and also Antur Waunfawr, a Studies of the University of Wales, repre- local company that offers training and senting five years of extensive fieldwork. employment opportunities to people with Following the success of the initial series Yr learning difficulties. The resulting artwork Hen Ffordd Gymreig, a Radio Cymru broad- was displayed at the building’s opening. cast drawing on our audio archive, a further The Historic Buildings Unit has also been series of six programmes was also broad- working hard on the medieval church from cast in early 2005. Co-operation with the Llandeilo Tal-y-bont (above). Ten sets of oak programme makers has enabled us to clear roof trusses (mostly conserved originals, but a number of copyright issues relating to some replicated) were positioned in the south some of the recordings.

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A broad range of activities provided much Carvers, who received a grant from the of the public programmes that were Lottery Commission to purchase equipment available during July and August. There and help complete the project. was a series of talks by curatorial staff on the Castle kitchen, archives, quilting and An interesting and lively addition to our conservation. The interpretation staff programme was the Stomp Serch: poets presented sessions on Iron Age inspiration gathered at the Oakdale Workingmen’s for poetry at the Celtic Village, secret Institute on the evening of St Dwynwen’s sources of energy at Ty Gwyrdd (our special- Day (25 January, a celebration for lovers ly built house that explores sustainable similar to St Valentine’s) to compete in the living) and art workshops on medieval wall production and performance of poems on paintings focusing on Llandeilo Taybont appropriate themes. This Welsh-language Church. event, held in conjunction with Menter Iaith Caerdydd, was very well attended. The Education Department developed and presented the project Films at St Fagans, In 2005, the Museum of Welsh Life com- involving the screening of a 1930’s film from memorated the sixtieth anniversary of the the Museum of Welsh Life’s archives at the end of the Second World War with a season Oakdale Workingmen’s Institute. This proved of events. The first event coincided with to be extremely popular with visitors and all National Potato Day on 30 January. ten showings sold out. Marguerite Patten (above), responsible for so many wartime recipes and tips on how to This year’s celebration of Calan Gaeaf (All work with rations, gave a series of cookery Hallows Eve) ran throughout the October masterclasses and took part in a question and 2004 half term. Activities included story- answer session with members of the public. telling in the cockpit, live interpretation in Kennixton Farmhouse, making a wicker man, The theme for the February half term was storytelling in the Celtic Village, cooking in ‘Toys and Games’, and activities included Llwyn-yr-eos Farmhouse, talks on the mean- displays by Cardiff Model Aeroplane Society ing of Hallowe’en and a Mummers play – and the Cardiff Marine Modellers, a toy train The Witch’s Curse. show, peg doll workshops and traditional wooden toys. Gwyl Fihangel, Glamorgan Our annual Christmas event has seen figures Children’s Festival and the Gwyl Feithrin MUSEUM OF rise for the third year running and 2004 saw were also held at the Museum of Welsh Life WELSH LIFE some 9,600 visitors over the three nights. this year, and, of course, there were even ST FAGANS On display was a crib made by members of more activities on Dydd Gwyl Dewi – St CARDIFF the South Wales Branch of the British Wood David’s Day (1 March). CF5 6XB

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Welsh Slate Museum

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the Llanberis Partnership has delivered a benefit of over £10m to a community that had suffered as a result of the demise of the slate industry

The story of slate in Wales unfolds at the The Art Department facilitated the purchase Left: Inside one of Welsh Slate Museum in Llanberis. Visitors of the painting Miner – Votty. Painted in 1961 the Fron Haul can watch skilled craftsmen as they deftly by a hitherto-unknown artist, the picture houses at the split and dress the slate by hand, or see the depicts the interior of a weighman’s hut at Welsh Slate Museum. largest working waterwheel on mainland the Fotty slate quarry above Blaenau This house is Britain in action. The Museum also offers a Ffestiniog. Following conservation by the Art decorated to unique glimpse into the lives of the quarry- Department, the painting was given its first represent life in 1901, during the men and their families at Nos 1-4 Fron Haul ever public exhibition at Oriel Maenofferen, three-year strike – a terrace of cottages that have been moved Gwynedd Council’s lifelong learning centre at Penrhyn to the Museum from their original site in at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Quarry in Bethesda Tanygrisiau near Blaenau Ffestiniog, and fur- nished in different historical periods. The Llanberis Partnership is chaired by one Above left: of our directors. This year the Partnership The Welsh Slate Museum is set This year, we made significant progress with has succeeded in obtaining a grant of almost in authentic the twin tasks of enhancing the stewardship £30k from Landfill Tax sources. This will be quarry and explaining the significance of our collec- matched and used to produce a network of workshops tions – and the knowledge associated with interpretation panels in and around Llanberis. Above: them – to our visitors. Since its inception in 1999, the Llanberis Children learn Partnership has delivered a benefit of over what wash-day used to be like A slate industry curator was appointed in £10m to a community that had suffered as a November 2004, complementing the result of the demise of the slate industry. Department of Industry’s other specialist industrial curators. From the outset, the Our audience comes to us for all sorts of curator has been involved in work to devel- reasons: for example, air cadets from op better storage facilities. Work is underway Wrexham wanted to establish a weekend in the former Volunteers Loft that will enable amateur radio station at a heritage site, and us to store the wooden patterns on purpose- model railway fans were keen to discover built shelving, in a safe and secure environ- just how a De Winton (Caernarfon) quarry ment that is accessible to the public. locomotive works. Equally, we go out to our audience. For example, video-conferencing Our range of partnerships continues to with sixth-formers at Bryncelynnog evolve. Planning for the 2005 National Secondary School in south Wales, who WELSH SLATE Eisteddfod with Cywaith Cymru and the wished to know more about the Penrhyn MUSEUM Eisteddfod itself led to the shared appoint- Quarry Strike of 1900-03 and its impact on GILFACH DDU ment of two artists to work on a range of Bethesda; or the production of the CD ROM LLANBERIS collaborative projects inspired by the slate Slate, which was launched at the Urdd GWYNEDD industry and its landscape. National Eisteddfod in Anglesey. LL55 4TY

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Big Pit: National Mining Museum

Above: Set in the heart of the World Heritage Site began a year of unprecedented success The winding gear at Big Pit. The at Blaenafon, Big Pit offers an experience with visitor numbers reaching an all-time ‘winder’ that unparalleled in Britain and unique to Wales. record and nearly double what they were used to bring Guided by ex-miners, visitors descend 300 prior to Big Pit becoming part of the coal from the shaft now takes feet to the very depths of the mine and National Museums & Galleries of Wales visitors down for experience the total darkness the miners in 2001. the famous worked in. Big Pit also features colliery underground tour buildings, pithead baths, blacksmith's work- The £7.1m capital redevelopment of Big Pit Right: shops and the winding engine house. was made possible by the Welsh Assembly The former Big Pit provides a fascinating insight into Government, Heritage Lottery Fund, Wales miners are always ready to the mining industry in Wales and the society Tourist Board, the Garfield Weston share their it created. Foundation, Lloyds TSB Foundation, the experiences and Coalfields Regeneration Trust, the Local tales from when they worked The tours of Big Pit’s historic underground Regeneration Fund, the Pilgrim Trust and underground workings have been offering visitors a the SR & PH Southall Trust. unique experience for twenty-one years. The re-launch of the museum in April 2004

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Public enthusiasm for the redevelopment the re-launch of the was matched by acclaim from within the museum world, with Big Pit being short-list- museum in April ed in January for both the European Museum of the Year and the prestigious began a year £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for UK Museum of the Year. Big Pit went on to win the of unprecedented Gulbenkian Prize in June 2005

success with visitor While greatly enjoying the new exhibitions numbers reaching an and displays, visitors to Big Pit never fail to remark on the quality of the staff, who are BIG PIT NATIONAL all-time record the key to the wonderful experience. Big Pit MINING is the first of Wales’s national museums to MUSEUM receive accreditation as an Investor in BLAENAFON People, a mark of the importance we place TORFAEN on the training and development of our staff. NP4 9XP

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National Woollen Museum PHOTO © PAUL AVIS © PAUL PHOTO

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Left: A Welsh coracle on display at the National Woollen Museum

Below left: These rare and valuable 19th- century stockings now help tell the story of Wales’s knitting industry

Left: Alun Pugh AM officially opened the redeveloped Museum

Located in the heart of the made by our young visitors. west-Wales countryside, the The local community also National Woollen Museum participated in a special St tells the story of the mills David’s Day discussion on once clustered around Dre- ‘Why Welsh Costume?’ fach Felindre. Cambrian Mills – the only mill in the village that Unravelling the woollen indus- has remained in continuous try’s manufacturing processes operation since it was built – is intriguing for all visitors. now houses the Museum. Our new interpretation concen- Centuries-old techniques, for- trates on using the giants of gotten skills and traditional industrial production to demon- ways of life sit alongside a strate them, such as the carding thriving, working woollen mill, engine from Abbey Woollen still producing for the modern Mill, housed until recently in market. the former Swansea Industrial & Maritime Museum, or the Alun Pugh AM, Welsh restoration of our own 400-spin- Assembly Government dle spinning mule – said to be Minister for Culture, the Welsh the ‘best in Britain’. Language and Sport officially opened the redeveloped Supported by public donations and Museum in July 2004 (above). the Friends of NMGW, The Search Engine, Children from local primary Ysgol Penboyr the hands-on collections room, was officially serenaded guests, and their enthusiasm con- opened on 1 December 2004 by Carol-Anne NATIONAL firmed our strong links with the local com- Davies, Chief Executive of the Design WOOLLEN munity. Commission for Wales. It has been widely MUSEUM praised by designers, the formal education DRE-FACH These links were much in evidence through- sector and by general users. The educational FELINDRE LLANDYSUL out the year. At Christmas, neighbours sang work continued with very successful ses- CARMARTH- carols around our Christmas tree, which had sions for schools and the development of a ENSHIRE been trimmed with woollen decorations programme using actors ‘in character’. SA44 5UP

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Roman Legionary Museum

Founded by the Caerleon Antiquarian Association in 1850, and becoming one of the first Wales’s national museums in 1930, the Roman Legionary Museum has been dis- national playing a rich collection of Roman finds for museum over 150 years. These include sculptures, inscriptions, tombstones, building materials, in Wales a labyrinth mosaic, military equipment, pottery, glass and jewellery. There is also a to be full-sized reconstructed Barrack Room, awarded which is unique in Britain. The town of Caerleon stands on the site of one of only the three permanent legionary bases in Roman Britain. Sandford Award This has been an exciting year for us, as we were awarded the Sandford Award by the by the Heritage Education Trust, which recognises the provision of quality education pro- Heritage grammes on historic sites. Our educational Education resource the Capricorn Centre was brought technologically up to date with the introduc- Trust tion of an interactive whiteboard and data projector, thanks to funding from visitor

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donations. The whiteboard is used during activities including a shuttle bus to take Left: evening talks and children’s activities, and visitors from the Maes (the Eisteddfod A gladiator has greatly enhanced the service we provide field) to the Museum for guided tours and display at the Roman Legionary for formal education sessions. evening talks. Museum

Mark Hassall from University College A total of 440 public enquiries were handled Above: The Ermine London gave the Annual Caerleon Lecture during the year. Notable finds recorded Street Guard on 23 September. His lecture was titled under the Portable Antiquities Scheme re-enact the ‘Does Size Matter? The Late Roman included a half-penny token of Philip life of a Roman soldier in Army and the Planning of Forts and Morgan of Abergavenny and a Roman Caerleon Fortresses’. It was a fascinating evening and crescentic pendant, found in the garden well attended. of a house within the Fortress walls of Caerleon, and loaned to the Museum for The Military Spectacular on 10 and 11 July display. saw the return of the Ermine Street Guard, who, as usual, provided a first rate Our collections were used for academic re-enactment. Over 5,000 visitors attended research on subjects ranging from glass during the weekend. beads and amphitheatres to the care of museum collections. We helped students ROMAN One of our best promotional opportunities from the universities of Aberystwyth, LEGIONARY came during the 2004 National Eisteddfod, Birmingham, Cardiff, Durham, Newport and MUSEUM which was held in the grounds of nearby Reading with their research. HIGH STREET Tredegar House. We organized a range of CAERLEON NP18 1AE

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National Collections Centre

Above: During 2004-05 the Department of Industry now complete. We also made progress with A coal wagon continued to work from Nantgarw in the the computerisation of the department’s at the National Collections south Wales valleys, servicing the curatorial, photographic collection, and 4,673 image Centre, after conservation and research requirements of records have now been put on the database. conservation the industry collections at the Collections work Centre and at our Social & Industrial History The Department of Industry has participated museums. in a number of partnership projects over the past year, with twelve items from the trans- However, we have had to prepare for the port collection being loaned to the Cardiff moving of the Department to the new Museum Project for their Moving Stories National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. We exhibition in the Old Library in The Hayes. also worked on a comprehensive conserva- tion programme of the items to be displayed We also played a leading role in the in the National Waterfront Museum, includ- Trevithick bicentenary events of 2004. Our ing a brick press and a coal wagon (above). replica of the Trevithick locomotive was NATIONAL COLLECTIONS loaned to National Railway Museum for their CENTRE During the year, 314 researchers and visitors Railfest 200 celebrations, before going on HEOL made use of the Collection Centre’s facilities, display from June to October in a specially CROCHENDY and 5,442 artefacts have been added to the designed Heritage Centre at Penydarren as PARC Collections Management System. part of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough NANTGARW CARDIFF Council’s bicentenary celebrations. Our CF15 7QT We continued to make significant progress Cuneo painting of the locomotive’s inaugural OPEN TO THE in the documentation of the Department’s run in February 1804 was also loaned to PUBLIC BY archival collection, and the documentation Cyfarthfa Castle Museum in Merthyr Tydfil APPOINTMENT of collections relating to the coal industry is and the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.

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PROJECTS AND PARTNERS Working with Wales and the World

We continue to share our collections within to enhance access to the collections. In par- and beyond Wales. The scheme Cyfoeth ticular, we have continued to support Cymru Gyfan-Sharing Treasures remains at Pembrokeshire Coast National Park the core of our partnership working. Authority on its development of the award- Following the success of our pilot projects, winning Tourist Information Centre at St major new partnerships are planned for David's, so as to expand its use of the 2005-06 at Wrexham County Borough Graham Sutherland collection to interpret Museum, Pontypool Museum, the landscape of Pembrokeshire. Carmarthenshire Museum and Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni.

We have been working with CyMAL on eval- uating the pilot phase and on the future development of this scheme. This has led us to advocate participation in the scheme to Left: the wider museum community in Wales. The The ‘Queen of the Night’, made scheme will build on valuable lessons in southern Iraq learned, but the overall objective remains to between 1800 increase the ability of museum users and 1750 BC, came to the throughout Wales to benefit from access to National Museum the national collections within their locality. & Gallery on loan from the British Museum An exciting parallel development has been the launch of Celf Cymru Gyfan-ArtShare Other exhibition-based partnerships under- Wales. This scheme will run in parallel with pin a range of high-profile projects. The first Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan and will work with five Artes Mundi Prize exhibition was an visual arts venues over a three-year period. acclaimed success. Our collaboration with These venues will be the Glynn Vivian Art the British Museum through their Gallery in Swansea, Ruthin Craft Centre, Partnership UK scheme saw important arte- Oriel Mostyn in Llandudno, Oriel Davies in facts shown at the National Museum & Newtown and Bodelwyddan Castle. Each Gallery, including the ancient Mesopotamian venue will present a locally generated exhi- sculpture popularly known as ‘Queen of the bition or display using different areas of our Night’ (above). collections alongside other material. Further partnerships will develop, for example with Of course, our partnerships also underpin a the National Portrait Gallery over the provi- whole range of other important work that sion of material at Bodelwyddan Castle. does not result in exhibitions or displays. This ranges from the network of community- We have continued our comprehensive based learning projects generated through international loans programme, with over the On Common Ground project, to the 29,000 objects on loan world-wide. Steps Roman Legionary Museum's work with the are being taken to ensure that the diversity Black Environmental Network, aimed at and range of this aspect of our work are encouraging Newport-based black and more widely recognised. Meanwhile, work minority ethnic communities to the visit the continues in support of other new initiatives Museum.

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EDUCATION new web-based resources. With funding Learning is central to our work in all our from SciZmic UK (Science Discovery Clubs curatorial departments and museums. In Network), we were able to offer an activity 2004-05, we welcomed 217,000 visitors from day for 120 Girl Guides from Cardiff, schools and colleges and arranged informal Swansea and Powys at the National learning activities for over 160,000 people of Museum & Gallery. all ages. Our outreach work included com- munity loans to 226 venues, as well as edu- Developing new audiences among key tar- cational programmes at national events such get groups has continued to be a priority, as as the Eisteddfodau. a means of addressing National Assembly for Wales priorities and developing our audi- The challenge of creating learning opportu- ence profile. In particular, we have been nities for people of all ages and interests is seeking to become more inclusive and to one that is shared across our whole organi- enable a wider range of people to participate zation. Consequently, in addition to facilitat- in our activities. At the Roman Legionary ing a wide-ranging programme of education Museum, we have expanded our work with and lifelong learning, we have been working ethnic minorities, developing a project with with staff from across the Museum to identi- Black Environmental Network to attract fy learning priorities for the future and Newport-based black and minority ethnic establish the foundations for a new learning communities to the Museum. At the National and access policy. Museum & Gallery, in a project to coincide with the exhibition Raphael’s Madonna of At the National Woollen Museum, the cre- the Pinks on tour from the National Gallery, ation of The Search Engine, an innovative London, we worked with young teenage new learning space, has set a high standard mothers attending a Books and Babies for us to follow at our other museums. Made group in Penrhys community centre. The possible by funding from the Friends of focus was their relationship with their chil- NMGW, it has enabled us to design an area dren; the young mothers produced portraits for the hands-on collection that appeals to of themselves with their children, and a ‘pre- Above: The CD ROM people of all ages. Its beauty lies in the fact cious’ bag. The resulting work was displayed Slate was that it is flexible enough to work with adults at the Museum and seen by the young produced in and family learners, as well as meeting the women and their families. collaboration with teachers diverse needs of visiting schools. Having secured funding from Objective One Approximately one sixth of our visitors and the Heritage Lottery Fund, we began On arrive in school and college groups, but we Common Ground 2, our innovative outreach are conscious of the need to reach those programme to work with 14-25 year-olds. who are unable to come to our museums. Over a two-year period, we aim to improve We do this in a variety of ways, including learning and employment possibilities for video-conferencing and educational 400 disadvantaged young people, as well as resources like our CD ROM Slate, which was promoting genuine local partnerships and developed after Estyn, the schools inspec- developing the social economy. tion service, had commented on a lack of materials on the subject. This project benefit- On Common Ground 2 targets the Welsh ed from a significant input from teachers, as Assembly Government’s Community First did our work surrounding the exhibition areas; we also have a special programme of Buried Treasure at the National Museum & creative writing workshops for schools in the Gallery. Funding from the General Teaching Community First areas around Big Pit. At the Council Wales enabled eleven teachers from Museum of Welsh Life we have been work- across Wales to be released from school for ing with the Parade Centre for English for professional development activities. The Speakers of Other Languages, supporting teachers, who welcomed the opportunity to their Life in the UK course for asylum seek- work with their peers and museum profes- ers. We have developed a regular pro- sionals, went on to develop a rich variety of gramme with the Ely-based Families projects in response to the exhibition, Learning Together initiative, which delivers including dance, drama, video and jewellery- basic skills to parents and children. Working making. in partnership with Cardiff County Council, we gave parents and toddlers at Ely Outreach work has also been a priority for Community Centre the chance to learn about the SCAN (Schools & Communities Agenda the seashore together through objects, 21 Network) project, which has developed songs and stories.

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We have continued to strengthen our family learning focus with a range of initiatives designed to enable parents and children to learn together. These include the innovative Woolly Tale activity at the National Woollen Museum, a family booklet and Art Cart for the Italian Gardens at the Museum of Welsh Life and new family trails for Big Pit, the Roman Legionary Museum and the Welsh Slate Museum. A family activity area was introduced into the Ceramics Gallery at the National Museum & Gallery, with funding from the Friends of NMGW.

For older people, we have built on the suc- front-of-house staff at the National Museum cess of the Tea and Talking Point talks at the & Gallery and the Museum of Welsh Life National Museum & Gallery, introducing together, alongside the departments of similar sessions at the Museum of Welsh Human Resources, Buildings & Estates and Life and the Roman Legionary Museum, Strategic Visitor Services. while people with special needs have become a focus at both our Cardiff sites. At This has ensured that our two largest sites the Museum of Welsh Life, we worked with have been able to develop a more visitor- Antur Waunfawr, who help adults with spe- centred culture. It has encouraged invest- cial needs or learning disabilities, on a proj- ment both in our staff and our estates, and ect around the re-erection of Cae Adda cow addressed the ongoing need for a proactive shed, which was moved from Gwynedd to approach to improving visitor experience the Museum. At the National Museum & and addressing health and safety require- Gallery, we collaborated with Careers Wales ments. Regular inter-disciplinary site inspec- and Education Business Partnership-spon- tions have ensured that short-term improve- sored teachers to develop learning resources ments are delivered. for children with special needs. At the National Museum & Gallery, the As we continue to help build a bilingual audio tour continues to be a great success. Wales, we have been exploring new ways of Featuring well-known Welsh voices such as attracting Welsh speakers and learners. This Sian Phillips, Mathew Rhys and Philip has included collaboration with the Mentrau Madoc, it offers a deeper interpretation of Iaith (the locally based Welsh language the highlights of our art and archaeology development agencies), a series of daily collections. It also helps visually impaired talks for learners at the National Eisteddfod visitors to engage with the objects. and the introduction of monthly sessions for Visitors have also responded enthusiastically Welsh learners at the National Museum & to the improved signage, and we hope to Gallery. However, our most ambitious proj- introduce a similar initiative at the Museum ect has been Llwybrau Llafar, a project fund- of Welsh Life. ed by ELWa. This brings tutors and their stu- dents to the Museum of Welsh Life, to The year has seen continuing investment in enable the learners to improve their Welsh our staff and we have been encouraging our language skills while exploring Welsh history museums to be evaluated against the and culture. The project has resulted in a Investors in People (IIP) Standard. Big Pit resource bank of materials for tutors and was the first to achieve the IIP Standard, and adults which can be downloaded free of we hope the Roman Legionary Museum is charge from our website. One group of not far behind. learners who have used the materials on a regular basis were interviewed as a focus We are also benefiting from the establish- group as part of our Creating the Future ment of the post of Human Resources & Together consultation. Their verdict on the Access/Diversity Officer, which has encour- sessions: ‘…rewarding, enjoyable and aged us to place a greater emphasis on the enriching experiences’. diverse needs of our audiences and staff. At the same time, we have completed a review OPERATIONS of our services to children and families, The formation of the Operations Division at which has resulted in the introduction of a the start of the financial year brought the comprehensive Child Protection Policy.

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COMMUNICATIONS ITV1 Wales’s series The Secrets of St Fagans The final total of visits for 2004-05 to our six was a great hit when it was broadcast over museums was 1,318,486. This figure was the 2004 summer months. The fly-on-the- 68,486 (+5.5%) above the target of 1,250,000 wall documentary followed staff for a period and 96,280 (+7.9%) more than in 2003-04, of six months, from January to June. Other and the Marketing and Press & Public filming highlights during the year included Relations teams have played a key role in the National Museum & Gallery being used this achievement. The relaunch of Big Pit and as a location in the most recent Doctor Who the National Woollen Museum in time for the series, and a series of popular children’s pro- 2004 tourism season was also a major factor. grammes, Bobinogs, being filmed at the Museum of Welsh Life. As part of the consultation on Creating the Future Together, we considered how we One of our most recent books was launched could communicate more clearly to a range at the 2004 Hay Festival. For Those in Peril of audiences, users and partners. We have reveals the stories behind the civil medals concluded that our current core values and and awards in our collections, when ordi- our aspirational values for the future should nary men, women and children risked – and be used to develop clearer, more modern sometimes lost – their lives to save the lives and more exciting names and visual identi- of others. The book was launched in the ties for both NMGW, the parent organization, company of BBC journalist Jon Gower and and the individual museums as visitor attrac- Alun Pugh AM, Minister for Culture, the tions. Visitors to our museums and our part- Welsh language and Sport. Guests at the ners in Wales and beyond will notice our new launch heard about the Clydach Vale dam names and our redesigned visual branding disaster, when an abandoned mine flooded coming through over the next months. the nearby primary school. The Albert Medal was awarded to the school’s headteacher for We undertook a fundamental review of our saving the lives of almost all the 900 pupils. marketing function during the year, to identi- The Minister told guests how he had been Above: The book For fy how we can attract new audiences in particularly moved when reading about this Those in Peril Wales and raise our profile in the UK and event, as his own grandmother had been was launched overseas. As a result of this review, we have one of the rescued schoolchildren. at the Hay Literature Festival established an Audience Development Task Force to drive this work forward. Autumn 2004 saw the publication of a book Right: to accompany the exhibition Art-accustomed Conservation of works on display This was the first full year for the Press & eyes. The book tells how John and Sheila can be carried Public Relations Department, which was Gibbs used the wealth of the two large out when the formed in March 2004 to increase the profile Cardiff shipping families (the Morels and the Museum is closed of the organization both at individual muse- Gibbs) to collect art, and how they quietly um level and corporately. The Welsh gave works to friends, family, schools and Far right: Assembly Government Minister for Culture, colleges, as well as supporting the National New gifts and souvenirs for the Welsh Language and Sport, Alun Pugh Museum with acquisitions. The book is sale at the AM, visited most of our sites during the another attractive edition in our range of redeveloped year, with special VIP events held at both Big small exhibition catalogues. The combination National Woollen Museum Pit and the National Woollen Museum to cel- of our curatorial expertise and the range of ebrate their re-openings. our collections means our books can be of interest on several levels, from historians Other major events included the launch of and researchers to visitors who want a the exhibition Buried Treasure at the souvenir of an exhibition. Our books also National Museum & Gallery, which brought raise the profile of our collections and pro- together the First Minister, Rt Hon. Rhodri vide access to them and to our research Morgan AM, Neil MacGregor of the British work. Museum and the Ermine Street Guard at a special event that included a live link-up with As usual, our designers supported the entire S4C’s popular magazine programme Wedi exhibitions programme, both designing Saith. exhibitions and displays and producing high-quality interpretation and promotional In January, Big Pit reached the final ten in material. We often work in partnership with the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for Museum other venues (see Projects and partners, of the Year. When Big Pit won the prize in page 35) and it is not just our collections June, the story received international press that we share. The expertise of our design- coverage, especially in the USA. ers, working closely with our conservation

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staff and curators, is called on when show- ing items from the national collections at other venues. Our excellence in design was recognised when we won the Welsh Brand category of the Welsh Language Board’s prestigious Bilingual Design Awards, for the exhibition Artes Mundi (Wales’s international visual arts prize). We have previously won in the Advertising category, indeed we have always reached the shortlists, from thou- sands of entries.

Perhaps the most significant development to our website was unseen, as our own, cus- tom-built content management system went live in spring 2005. This will make our future siderable assistance was provided to many aspirations for the website, including getting other museums in Wales. more information about the collections online, much easier to realise. THE LIBRARY Perhaps the most significant Library acquisi- DOCUMENTATION, PHOTOGRAPHY tion during the year was the sixty-one-vol- AND CONSERVATION ume New Oxford Dictionary of National During the year a comprehensive report by Biography, the Welsh launch of which was the National Audit Office Wales was pub- held at the National Museum & Gallery. This lished, entitled Collections Management at acquisition was of immediate use for devel- NMGW. This report formed the basis of a oping the galleries that explore the theme of further report by the National Assembly for ‘Achievers’ at the National Waterfront Wales’s Audit Committee to the Welsh Museum, and its availability online and con- Assembly Government. With previously stant updates mean that it will become a agreed assistance, in the form of a £3.5m hugely useful reference tool. grant from the Welsh Assembly Government, we were able to press ahead ENTERPRISES LTD with plans to improve the storage of our col- The company is a wholly owned subsidiary lections and enable enhanced access to of The National Museum of Wales. them, thus addressing one of the prime rec- The company’s principal activities are the ommendations of the NAO report. museum shops, franchise catering and car-parking at the National Museum & In addition, the Documentation Unit was Gallery and at The Museum of Welsh Life, able to continue with its work of computeriz- image licensing and corporate hire. ing our extensive collections data, with the result that 41.6% of that information is now The re-opening of the National Woollen available on a computerized data system. Museum in February 2004 with a modern, This enables much faster response to public refurbished shop resulted in particularly inquiries and fosters research into the collec- encouraging trading results. The spend per tions. visitor was significantly higher, indicating visitors’ positive response to the new range The Photography Department continued to of attractive merchandise on offer. provide a comprehensive service both to museum projects and to outside agencies. Car-parking charges were introduced at The During the year almost 10,000 images were Museum of Welsh Life for the first time on 1 produced, of which approximately 46% are April 2004, a move that has provided income now available digitally. The digital archive that will be used to improve visitor facilities. provides an essential resource to the entire organization We are now working on the retail, catering and corporate hire facilities at the National A major thrust for our conservators during Waterfront Museum in Swansea. We are also the year was working on the objects des- planning to extend and refurbish the shop at tined for the new National Waterfront The Museum of Welsh Life in 2006, and con- Museum in Swansea. However, textiles and sidering the relocation of the shop and archive storage areas were also completed restaurant at the National Museum & at the National Woollen Museum, and con- Gallery.

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COURT AND COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL MUSE From 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005

Members of the Council NOT OTHERWISE MEMBERS OF THE COURT J. W. Evans CBE, MA Prof. C. L. Jones OBE, FRSA M. A. J. Salter FCA (to October 2004) Jane Pierson Jones MA, FMA

Appointed by the Welsh Assembly Government Dr P. T. Warren CBE, MA Linda D. Quinn MSc Prof. C. Malcolm Parry Prof. D. Egan (to December 2004) H. R. C. Williams Rhiannon Wyn Hughes MBE

The National Library of Wales President

The University of Wales Mair Waldo Thomas Professor J. King

Welsh Joint Education Committee Councillor G. Richards

Members of Parliament for Wales W. Griffiths MP

Appointed by the Court D. Bowen Lewis Dr W. B. Willott CB C. Rowland Court of Governors H. Mansfield Prof. J. Last CBE President Dr Iolo ap Gwynn Paul E. Loveluck CBE, JP Representatives of local authorities Immediate Past President Councillor J. G. Jenkins (to February 2005) Mathew Prichard CBE, DL, BA Councillor R. W. Hughes (to February 2005) Councillor P. G. Larsen Vice President Councillor P. M. Thomas Dr Susan J. Davies BA Dr C. Grace (to February 2005) Councillor R. Francis-Davies (to February Treasurer 2005) G. Wyn Howells ACIB Councillor D. Rogers (to February 2005)

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Councillor J. A. H. Harries (to February 2005) Council Councillor R. Cass (to February 2005) Councillor R. H. Poole President Councillor J. Huish (to February 2005) Paul E. Loveluck CBE, JP Councillor D. I. Bowen Councillor J. Austin (from February 2005) Immediate Past President Councillor R. G. Harris (from February 2005) Mathew Prichard CBE, DL, BA Councillor J. Major (from February 2005) Councillor J. M. Humberstone (from Vice President February 2005) Dr Susan J. Davies BA Councillor Mrs E. McIlveen (from February 2005) Treasurer Councillor M. C. Wilkins (from G. Wyn Howells ACIB February 2005) Appointed by the Welsh Assembly Organizations in Wales Government Cambrian Archaeological Association: Dr P. T. Warren CBE, MA D. Moore (from March 2005) Prof. D. Egan (to December 2004) The Council of the Royal National H. R. C. Williams Eisteddfod: G. E. Humphreys Rhiannon Wyn Hughes MBE (to October 2004), R. Alun Evans (from October 2004) Appointed by the Court of Governors The National Museum of Wales Society: D. Bowen Lewis H. Looker Dr W. B. Willott CB The Council of Museums in Wales: Prof. J. Last CBE Councillor R. Francis-Davies Dr Iolo ap Gwynn Wales TUC Cymru: A. Wellington The Welsh Council of the CBI: Vacant Appointed by the Council The National Trust: M. A. McLaggan J. W. Evans CBE, MA The Arts Council of Wales: Chairperson Prof. C. L. Jones OBE, FRSA Wales Tourist Board: J. Jones M. A. J. Salter FCA (to October 2004) The Welsh Wildlife Trusts Ltd: J. Raum Jane Pierson Jones MA, FMA (to May 2004) Countryside Council for Wales: Board of management Chief Executive Council for British Archaeology: The National Museum of Wales’s manage- F. L. Llewelyn ment board consists of: The Federation of Museums and Galleries Michael Houlihan, Director General in Wales: C. J. Delaney Eurwyn Wiliam, Deputy Director General Robin Gwyn, Director of Communication Mark Richards, Director of Operations Jon Sheppard, Director of Finance & IT Mike Tooby, Director of the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff John Williams-Davies, Director of the Museum of Welsh Life

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2005

This Financial Statement provides a summa- has led to a deficit in the last actuarial valua- ry of the consolidated accounts of the tion of the scheme. Full disclosure of this National Museums & Galleries of Wales deficit, as required by FRS17, results in the (NMGW) for the financial year ending 31 deficit being reflected in the consolidated March 2005. It does not contain sufficient statement of financial activities and balance information to allow for full understanding sheet. While the computed deficit may only of the results and state of affairs of the become a reality over a significant number Museum, and therefore for further informa- of years in the future, it should be noted that tion the full annual accounts and the audi- NMGW is actively seeking ways of address- tors report on those accounts should be con- ing this deficit. An increase in employer con- sulted. A copy of the audited accounts, tributions of 41/2% was made during the which contain the detailed information year and a cash injection was received from required by law, Treasury guidance and best the Assembly at the financial year-end. practice, can be obtained, free of charge, However, major inroads into the deficit can from the Director of Finance at Cathays Park, only result from a significant uplift in the Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Equity Market over the coming year or a massive capital injection. In the meantime, STATUTORY BACKGROUND NMGW will continue to examine the possi- The National Museums & Galleries of Wales bility of merging this scheme into the was established by Royal Charter in 1907 as Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, The National Museum of Wales. An inde- while at the same time placing reliance on pendent registered charity, NMGW receives the fact that the scheme deficit is incorporat- its core funding through grant-in-aid from ed into the pension deficit shown in the the National Assembly Government as an Welsh Assembly Government’s accounts and Assembly Sponsored Public Body. on written assurances from the Assembly In addition, income is generated from its that funding will be provided to at least the various activities. Its core objective is the minimum level required to enable NMGW to advancement of the education of the public, meet statutory contribution levels. involving developing, caring for, studying and sustaining access to the collections for NMGW directly operates Museums in six the benefit of society in perpetuity. locations across Wales. In conjunction with the City & County of Swansea, NMGW is REVIEW OF THE YEAR AND FUTURE currently developing the National Waterfront DEVELOPMENTS Museum in a project costing £33m. The new NMGW's consolidated net incoming Museum opens in October 2005. NMGW is resources before notional costs of capital also undertaking major improvements to its were £6,371,000 (£4,940,000 incoming in collections care and access as well as 2003-04). Incoming resources were addressing many outstanding estate £24,797,000 (£24,983,000 in 2003-04) and improvements. total resources expended were £24,310,000 (£24,411,000 in 2003-04). The net increase in COUNCIL MEMBERS funds for the year after taking account of all The Council Members are the charity’s realised and unrealised gains and losses Trustees, and a list of those who have was £22,799,000 (net increase of £6,762,000 served during the last financial year up to in 2003-04). Fund balances at 31 March 2005 the date of this report is on pages 42-43. stood at £100,085,000 (£77,286,000 at 31 The Council members receive no remunera- March 2004). National Museums & Galleries tion for their services. A register of interests of Wales Enterprises Ltd reported a profit is maintained at the National Museum & before gift aid to the Museum of £302,228 Gallery at Cathays Park, and is available for for the 2004-05 financial year (£69,289 in public inspection. 2003-04). MANAGEMENT BOARD NMGW operates a defined benefit pension The day-to-day executive management of scheme, which is available to all permanent the Museum is conducted by a Management employees. As reported last year, in com- Board, whose members are noted on mon with the vast majority of such schemes, page 43. Details of the Management Board a combination of a fall in the value of salaries are available in the full Audited scheme assets represented by Equity Accounts. The Chief Executive’s remunera- Investment over recent years plus other fac- tion for the year ending 31 March 2005 was tors, such as improved life expectancy rates, £99,600.

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SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES for year ended 31 March 2005

Public Funds Private Funds 2004-05 Total 2003-04 Total £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000

INCOMING RESOURCES Donations and Bequests 78 617 695 613 Activities in Furtherance of Objects: Grants 21,420 0 21,420 21,486 Activities for Generating Funds: Investment Income 0 83 83 63 Income from trading subsidiary 1,667 0 1,667 1,285 Other Income 876 56 932 1,536 2,543 139 2,682 2,884 TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 24,041 756 24,797 24,983

RESOURCES EXPENDED Costs of Generating Funds Fund Raising and Publicity 2,528 196 2,724 2,354 Charitable Expenditure: Costs of Activities in Furtherance of Objects: Collection and Preservation 4,319 245 4,564 5,188 Research 1,139 0 1,139 1,171 Exhibition and Education 2,633 245 2,878 3,742 8,091 490 8,581 10,101 Support Costs 10,910 0 10,910 10,114 Costs of Management and Administration 1,508 113 1,621 1,350 20,509 603 21,112 21,565 Pension Finance Costs 474 0 474 492 TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 23,511 799 24,310 24,411

SHARE OF JOINT VENTURE 5,884 0 5,884 4,368

NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES BEFORE NOTIONAL COSTS 6,414 (43) 6,371 4,940 Notional cost of capital (2,980) 0 (2,980) (2,478)

NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES BEFORE TRANSFERS 3,434 (43) 3,391 2,462 Reversal of notional cost of capital 2,980 0 2,980 2,478

NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 6,414 (43) 6,371 4,940 Unrealised Gains on revaluation of fixed assets 9,644 110 9,754 406 Realised/Unrealised Gains on investments 0 180 180 306 Actuarial Gains on pension scheme 6,494 0 6,494 1,110

NET INCREASE IN FUNDS 22,552 247 22,799 6,762

SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET as at 31 March 2005

FIXED ASSETS 107,530 91,452

Current Assets 2,764 2,578 Creditors (835) (896) NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,929 1,682 Creditors : amount due after one year (21) (31)

NET ASSETS EXCLUDING PENSION SCHEME LIABILITY 109,438 93,103

Pension Scheme Liability (9,353) (15,817)

NET ASSETS INCLUDING PENSION SCHEME LIABILITY 100,085 77,286

Public Funds 96,422 73,870 Private Funds 3,663 3,416 TOTAL FUNDS 100,085 77,286

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SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT for year ended 31 March 2005

2004-05 Total 2003-04 Total £'000 £'000

Net Cash Inflow from operating activities 1,686 2,612 Capital Expenditure (1,641) (2,774) Increase/(Decrease) in Cash 45 (162)

NOTES TO THE SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1. BASIS OF PREPARATION This summary financial statement is extract- ed from the full consolidated accounts pre- pared in accordance with the Museums and Galleries Act 1992, and National Assembly for Wales directions, having regard to the Companies (Summary Financial Statement) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2092) as far as is relevant. The accounts are signed on the Council’s behalf by:

Michael Houlihan G. Wyn Howells Accounting Officer Treasurer 15 August 2005 15 August 2005 RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNCIL, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL AND AUDITOR The summary financial statement is the AUDITORS responsibility of the Council and the Director General. My responsibility is to report to The opinion of the Auditor General for you my opinion on its preparation and con- Wales, on the annual financial statements of sistency with the full financial statements the National Museums & Galleries of Wales and Trustees’ annual report. I also read the and the Group for the period ended 31 other information in the annual report and March 2005, was unqualified. The Auditor consider the implications for my report if I General for Wales had no observations to become aware of any apparent misstate- make on the financial statements. ments or material inconsistencies with the summary financial statements.

BASIS OF OPINION THE STATEMENT OF THE I have conducted my work in accordance with Bulletin 1999/6 - "The auditors’ state- AUDITOR GENERAL FOR WALES ment on the summary financial statement" adopted by the Auditing Practices Board for I have examined the summary financial use in the United Kingdom. statement on pages 46 and 47 which has been prepared in the form and on the basis OPINION set out in note 1 above. In my opinion the summary financial state- ment is consistent with the full financial statements and annual report of the Council of The National Museum of Wales and the Group for the period ended 31 March 2005 and has been properly prepared on the basis set out in note 1 to the summary financial statement.

Jeremy Coleman Wales Audit Office Auditor General 2-4 Park Grove for Wales Cardiff 22 August 2005 CF10 3PA

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