The new National Museum of Art in Cardiff

[editor]

I really liked this new extension to the National Museum. Anyone else been?

http://www.urban75.org/blog/checking-out-the-new-national-museum-of-art-in-cardiff/

 

[gaijingirl]

we've just booked a half term trip to Cardiff - for me to take a trip down memory lane - although this time it will be museums/castles/the bay - rather than dodgy nightclubs etc..

so... mean to say, we might check it out then!

 

[Gavin Bl]

Yes they have reopened on of the wildlife wings recently too

 

[Belushi]

No, but I will try and visit the Capital after 20 years away next year.

The extension was badly needed to properly house the collection, especially the world class collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressonist works.

 

[ddraig]

tried to go but got chucked out (ok ushered politely) as we approached as it was closing in 30mins

 

[wayward bob]

erm, i appear to have missed this

 

[ddraig]

still there bob!

 

[wayward bob]

still there bob!

i know that i just mean i missed that the new bits were open. will drag some students over there along with me some time

 

[Gavin Bl]

If you've got little uns they'll love all the nature and dinosaur stuff downstairs. Prepare them for the mammoth.

I never get to see the art - as I never get to go there without a gaggle of children

(((((my weekends)))))

 

[Thumper Browne]

Going on thursday or friday....

 

[wayward bob]

If you've got little uns they'll love all the nature and dinosaur stuff downstairs. Prepare them for the mammoth.

I never get to see the art - as I never get to go there without a gaggle of children

(((((my weekends)))))

heh my kids' cousin has a love/hate thing with the mammoth he's petrified and entranced in equal measure

 

[Gavin Bl]

it was broke once, and my youngest said 'Dad, the mammoth is sick'

 

[1927]

I hadnt even thought of a trip to the museum as a day out for ickle27. he'd love the wildlife stuff! Thanks for the reminder.

 

[wayward bob]

I hadnt even thought of a trip to the museum as a day out for ickle27. he'd love the wildlife stuff! Thanks for the reminder.

the meteorites etc. are better than the moulting stuffed things

 

[Gavin Bl]

the meteorites etc. are better than the moulting stuffed things

not if you're 7

 

[1927]

not if you're 7

He's 3.

 

[Gavin Bl]

Might be a bit freaked out by the dinosaurs and the moving mammoth - but one way to find out....

 

[ginger_syn]

My grandkids who are both 4 love the moulting stuffed things and find the mammoth fascinating and scary and insist on seeing it whenever we go there.

 

[Riklet]

ah shit just been staying on friends' sofas most of last week in cardiff, would have loved to have checked this out at the national. when did it open? will be back soonish hopefully. so it's an actual extension off the top floor in the art area then, or just new gallery space? good that 'the arts' are still getting decent funding, at least in cardiff anyway.

 

[ddraig]

read ed's link to his feature! and links from there! tut tut

bbc

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART IN FIGURES

• Wales' new National Museum of Art covers 4,000 sq m (43,000 sq ft) of space at National Museum Cardiff
• It cost £6.5m, most of it raised from private sources and the Welsh Government
• It is one of the largest art venues outside London
• The contemporary art galleries - the West Wing - cover nearly 800 sq m (8,600 sq ft) making the largest space for contemporary art in Wales
• The redeveloped galleries offer 40% more space for the national contemporary collection

 

[1927]

No, but I will try and visit the Capital after 20 years away next year.

The extension was badly needed to properly house the collection, especially the world class collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressonist works.

Most of the Impressionist works are on display in New York right now I believe. i seem to remember that MoMA have loaned stuff so they can display all 7(?) Water Lilies together for the first time.

 

[badlands]

I hadnt even thought of a trip to the museum as a day out for ickle27. he'd love the wildlife stuff! Thanks for the reminder.

couple of rooms which are aimed at kids, both on ground floor.

one room has books, drawing stuff and microscopes with slides of bugs and fossils and other stuff. My lot love it.

the other room is opened now and again, (its new, teething problems) lots of making things and creating. Great fun.

 

[badlands]

I have 3 kids under 4 and they all love the mammoth and the dinosaurs. but they get bored with the portraits. especially the old ones. 'too scary', understandable really

 

[Gavin Bl]

one room has books, drawing stuff and microscopes with slides of bugs and fossils and other stuff. My lot love it..

oh yeah, forgot about that one - the Clore room, is it? Really good fun. On the left, just before the stairs - its can be missed easily

 

[Thumper Browne]

Highlights for me were the fast food menus at the entrance to the fifth floor, excellent multiculturism and consumption statement. Jeremy Deller's "The Uses of Literacy" was the most theoretically robust examining the interactions of artists and their audiences, but the best bit was Peter Finnemore's video "Base Camp" 31 short films and although I didn't sit thru them all "Garden of Flying Daggers" had me chuckling aloud, a fallen tree, some bamboo bean poles and a blunt machete. )

 

[Gavin Bl]

Yes, yes - but did you see the mammoth?

 

[editor]

There was an odd but rather compelling John Cale audio visual piece being shown too.

 

[Thumper Browne]

Yes the mammoth saw the mammoth (roilleyes) but didn't it move once, like animatronically?

 

[Thumper Browne]

Didn't give much attention to the John Cale piece, never take a show in all in one go, planning to go back, will give it some attention then will also sit thru all 31 of Finnemores films.

Also think its abourt time the NMW had a good comtemporary show, there's only so much impressionism one can take, its all very well that the daughters of rich mine owners donanted their collect to the Welsh people but it was afterall their collection and not necessarily a collection that would resonante with ordinary Welsh people might relate to (what constitutes an ordinary Welsh person - answers on a post card).

 

[wayward bob]

we has special access to the print room saw the new galleries today, looking good