ICOMOS-UK Summer Outing & AGM

 Open Air Museums and Society
3rd-5th July 2009
at St Fagans National History Museum (near Cardiff)
Part of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

St Teilo’s Church, St Fagans © St Fagans: National History Museum

Some of the presentations are now available online – see below.
The 2009 ICOMOS-UK Summer meeting and AGM took place at St Fagans National History Museum, south Wales, in collaboration [...]

New “Hidden Histories” series

Tuesdays at 7.30pm BBC2 Wales from 4 November
A new five-part television series following the investigative work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. The Commission and the FBI are both 100 this year – watch the ‘Welsh bureau of investigation’ uncovering clues to our past.
 
4 November – Building Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. [...]

Blaenavon – new World Heritage Centre

The UK’s first dedicated World Heritage Centre has been officially opened in Blaenavon by First Minister for Wales, Rhodri Morgan. The £2.7 million visitors’ centre tells the story of how Blaenavon helped to change the world during the Industrial Revolution and the international importance of World Heritage status.
Dan Clayton Jones, Chair of the Heritage Lottery [...]