A Post-Industrial Industrial Museum
Peter Furtado visits the new National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, the museum of Welsh industrial and maritime heritage.
How to contain and display industrial history in a modern museum? No longer, it seems, with serried ranks of steam engines and machine tools, enhanced with the faint smell of oil. The slightly misleadingly named National Waterfront Museum in Swansea – though based on the city’s dockside, its maritime content is probably not its strongest suit – has set a new standard. It presents ‘Wales’s Story of Industry and Innovation’ through interactive screens and virtual displays as well as machines, photographs, films and objects.
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