St Fagans: Welsh Folk Museum

Backdated Blip 66

Break in Cardiff last spring continues - a sort of reunion return to The National Museum of Wales National History Museum, commonly known as the Welsh Folk Museum, which is on the city's outskirts and is free entry. After a much welcome hot chocolate (really cold!) explored this ever expanding site, and the first time I'd photographed it in digital.

A lot of the interiors are very dark and so the extended high iso that modern digitals offer is offset by a no-tripod policy but I only had the oldish and slow Nikkor 24-120mm f3.5-5.6 on the full frame and it coped pretty well, though it almost always got used at its widest.

This an interior of a very old church - it looks bright and garish because that's how all medieval works looked, they faded over the centuries to give the familiar look they now have. The Museum dismantles culturally significant buildings, often in danger of demolition of from modern planners, such as the Vulcan pub in Cardiff, which will be my backdated blip for the 4th May. They then rebuild them, employing local and specialist traditional craftspeople.

Here's the link: official website . To quote 'St Fagans is one of Europe's leading open-air museums and Wales's most popular heritage attraction. It stands in the grounds of the magnificent St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth.

Excellent stuff! My facebook friends can find two albums of pics from this day already up. Message me if you can't find them.