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Curator's Lens: A Career in Collecting

Curator's Lens: A Career in Collecting

The National Library of Wales Opens a New Photographic Exhibition to Celebrate Curator Will Troughton’s Career in Collecting

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Celebrating the Success of the Women and Sport: Wales Project

Celebrating the Success of the Women and Sport: Wales Project

Project celebration and transferring disks of films and photographs to the Library

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Four National Libraries Join Forces in Major New UK–Ireland Initiative

Four National Libraries Join Forces in Major New UK–Ireland Initiative

Funding of €5m for twelve projects under the UK-Ireland Cultural Co-Operation Programme announced

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Portrait and Pride: A Very Queer Tour

Portrait and Pride: A Very Queer Tour

Join Jane (Aberration) and Phoebe (The National Library of Wales LGBTQ+ Forum) to...

Gwen John’s Gaze

Gwen John’s Gaze


2026 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gwen John, one of Wales’s best known...

AR-LEIN / ONLINE: Gwen John’s Gaze

AR-LEIN / ONLINE: Gwen John’s Gaze


2026 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gwen John, one of Wales’s best known...

 Paint a Portrait Night

Paint a Portrait Night


In Partnership with Yr Almanac bar, Aberystwyth 
The Portrait and Power exhibition...