The best specialized museums Wales

Historically, wool has been Wales' most important industry. This fascinating museum celebrates this textile material, once exported all over the world. You can even try your hand at it! The National Wool Museum is also a workshop where machines and craftsmen work on a daily basis. Admission is free, which may be an alternative on rainy days, for example. Many activities are organized for children (and not only). The agenda is available on their website.

An amazing museum for a confidential community, the Quaker community. Many villagers converted to this religion after its founder, George Fox, visited the village in 1657. In total opposition to the Anglicans and their attachment to dogma, the Quaker movement, which was very independent, insisted on the mystical notion of "inner light", which made the followers suspect in the eyes of the local religious authorities. So they were forced to emigrate to Pennsylvania. A film and photographs trace the life of this community.

The Egypt Center boasts a fascinating collection of jewelry, statues and pottery from the age of the Pharaohs. The collection is complemented by a team of friendly volunteers who will let you touch some of the museum's pieces or show you how to make a mummy... Exciting! On Saturdays, the museum is run by young volunteers aged between 10 and 18. They're the ones who run the whole museum, from the cash desk to the gift store, and give you explanations about the display cases... Amazing!

This handsome red-brick Gothic building was built in 1897. It became the administrative center of the Port of Cardiff in 1947. Since 2010, it has been a venue for events and conferences open to the public. It's also a museum, providing an insight into the history of the country and Cardiff Bay. From the golden age of its port, linked to iron ore and coal exports in the ^19th century, through the crises of the 1920s and 1950s, to the revival of the city since the 1980s.

In a sumptuous late 18th century manor house, the life of a provincial bourgeois family was staged. The rooms are beautifully furnished with the furniture, tapestries and accessories of yesteryear giving a very realistic picture of what a domestic interior looked like at the time. Certainly one of the most beautiful historic houses in the country. The impressive gardens, crossed by a canal, respect the style of the 18th century flowerbeds. Spectacular.

A 16th century Tudor-style mansion transformed into a museum, which offers a fabulous journey through time in a very playful way. Be aware that the place is haunted and that ghost watching sessions are organized there! Do not trust its peaceful landscape... which hides a history marked by war. According to legend, many ghosts lurk within the walls of the mansion, and paranormal phenomena such as the appearance of ghosts or smells of food spreading for no apparent reason.