Stuffed, Pickled & Pinned

Stuffed, Pickled & Pinned 50 Wonders of Nature in Welsh Museums Museums across Wales house some amazing natural treasures. These collections help us to understand the world around us and our place in it. They also show our impact on nature and how nature affects us. Museum specimens may be used to help us to answer vital questions in modern research. This exhibition shows just a fraction of at least 72,200 specimens in regional museum in Wales. Together with those at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales (AC-NMW), they make up the distributed natural history collection of Wales. This is part of our shared cultural and scientific heritage. The aim of the Linking Collections project was to find out about these collections and share information about them with the public. To do this, staff and volunteers in 18 Welsh museums worked with experts at AC-NMW in Cardiff to examine and identify specimens.

This exhibition will be travelling to these locations:

Powysland Museum (Powys CC) October 2015 to December 2016
Abergavenny Museum (Monmouthshire CC) January to April 2016
Tenby Museum & Art Gallery May 2016
Carmarthenshire County Museum (Carmarthenshire CC) June to September 2016
Swansea Museum (Swansea CC) October to December 2016
Ceredigion Museum (Ceredigion CC) February to April 2017
Scolton Manor Museum (Pembrokeshire CC) May to June 2017
Rhyader Museum & Gallery July to August 2017
Oriel Ynys Môn (Isle of Anglesey CC) September to December 2017
Wrexham County Borough Museum and Archive (Wrexham CBC) January to March 2018
Chepstow Museum (Monmouthshire CC) May to July 2018
Cyfartha Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Merthyr CBC) August to September 2018
Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery (Powys CC) Dates to be confirmed
Llandudno Museum Dates to be confirmed