Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum

{{Short description|Former museum in Cardiff, Wales}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum

| native_name = Amgueddfa Diwydiant a Môr Cymru

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| image = Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum.jpg

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| map_type = Cardiff

| map_caption = Location in central Cardiff

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| established = 1977

| dissolved = {{end date|1998|06|01|df=y}}

| location = Butetown, Cardiff, Wales

| coordinates = {{coord|51.464|-3.165|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

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| owner = National Museums and Galleries of Wales

| publictransit = Cardiff Bute Road railway station 10px
Cardiff Bus 8 10px

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The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum was located in Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, prior to the Cardiff Bay regeneration in the late 1990s. The museum formed part of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, now known as Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, and the first stage opened in 1977,{{cite web |url=https://museum.wales/media/35/position_statement.en.pdf |title= The National Museums & Galleries of Wales|publisher= Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales |access-date=28 April 2020}} and it closed just 22 years later in 1998.{{cite news|author=Roger Dobson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/shops-replace-ships-as-maritime-history-goes-west-1162369.html |title=Shops replace ships as maritime history goes west |work= The Independent |date=2 June 1998 |access-date=17 December 2019}}

File:Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T 544 (1900) Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum, Cardiff 28.10.1992 (1) (10196698845).jpg

Construction of the museum began in October 1974.{{cite news|author=Jessica Flynn |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/gallery/museums-treasures-wales-42-pictures-7848483 |title=Museums and treasures of Wales in 42 pictures |work=Wales Online |date=29 September 2014 |access-date=17 December 2019}} Exhibits included cars, a bus and tram, a lighthouse, a figurehead from HMS Hamadryad, the Sea Alarm tugboat and a replica of Richard Trevithick's 1803 locomotive, Pen-y-Darren. A permanent exhibition described the history of the docks and coal mining in South Wales.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1146876.stm |title=Maritime museum 'put on hold' |work=BBC News |date=31 January 2001 |access-date=17 December 2019}}

Dr Geraint Jenkins was curator of the museum from 1978 until 1987.{{cite news|title=Obituary:Geraint Jenkins, 1929–2009 |work=Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies |year=2010 |volume=48|number=1 |pages=67–70|doi=10.1179/043087710X12610658128046 }}

The museum closed on 1 June 1998 to make way for the new Mermaid Quay shopping development. Its exhibits were redistributed to other museums and the Sea Alarm was scrapped. A new location for a similar museum, in Swansea, was not chosen until two years after the closure. The National Waterfront Museum opened in Swansea in 2005.