Swansea Museum

It was nice to visit the oldest museum in Wales. Loved the new section for typography. Great to also see some well curated and beautiful books.Great place to visit. Love it

It was a wonderful experience. We saw a calligraphy event and the visitors were very educated on all types of calligraphy. So many beautiful paintings up the stairs, the dinosaur fossils are incredible. However, the animal room was by far the best room! There are displays of a giraffe head, bull bison and a eagle with its wings spread. It is a must do while being in swansea! There’s also a kids room for small children to watch shows, colour and read books.

Old fashioned but with style. More early 20th century type of museum than contemporary institution. Still, very nice exposition on 20th-century Swansea. Lot's of nostalgia in it.

This is a profoundly interesting and well stocked museum. Full of history, explanation and the context of lives lived in Swansea.We were visiting the Annual Book Fair, and the lower portion of rooms in the museum were packed with tables and displays, plus books, pamphlets and maps - ready to hand to answer questions from residents or visitors.There were also experts on hand from a profusion and range of local history associations and societies.This week in October is Museum Week across Wales. You must put Swansea Museum on your 'to visit' wishlist, and bring the family too, of course...

It's free and even in terrible weather you would struggle to spend 30 minutes here. It's a terrible injustice to the community and people of Swansea. Either no-one over the centuries has donated to their museum or someone is keeping it all under lock and key as it's certainly not on show to the public! Dire entrance, no customer service, not much of a gift shop, dated displays and drab atmosphere.When I visited there was an appalling exhibition on clothes, a stale life size replica of a Welsh kitchen that's been on display since 1919 seemingly and an abandoned stuffed animal section. Bizarrely an Egyptian room that was just weird. Why is there nothing on the heritage, shipping, trade, beauty and industry of swansea?It's enroute from the city centre to the harbour so worth peeking into especially in poor weather as it has free toilets but it needs someone to love and regenerate it.

First time I've been to Swansea Museum and it was very interesting.Took my time around all the exhibits and was there for about 2 hours.The range of exhibits is also noteworthy: egyptology, Swansea in the 20th century, natural history, and others.Would definitely recommend if you're visiting Swansea

A really nice musuem! Very cosy, I would hang out there all day if I could.The natural history bit was very cool and had nice seats to lounge in.Will definitely pop in again next time I'm on Swansea

Hey this is an interesting place to visit, full of information about the city, people and history. Some exhibits could do with updates, but mostly good. Some fun information on surfers and surfing. Well worth a walk through on a rainy day.

Interesting museum located in hearts of Swansea, with exhibits ranging from Egyptian mummy to 1960s, High Street Swansea and various other aspects on skate park, surfing, taxidermy art, crockery / porcelain table wear, victorian Swnsea etc. Something for everyone and not as oppressive as some museums where they have too much information so the average passerby can skim through most areas.Would recommend this although they could do a timeline listing highs and lows of the area.Well done.... And friendly staff, AND ITS FREE TO ENTER.

It's definitely historic and some items are really cool and the paintings are a wow factor....but for the size of the building and for how many famous people are from wales i think more modern stuff should be added toThere could be lot more sections... with each section having more creative stuff added from parts of wales....Example ...shows in grand theatre shows at liberty stadium...Clothes from musical/clothes from 70/80/90/2000....I just think more creativeness needs to be added....