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Connecting unique cultural space across the region - welcoming families, friends and communities to discover something new.

We are CofGâr

We are the Carmarthenshire County Council museums and arts service and we care for five museums in West Wales.

Museum visitors exploring an inscribed standing stone exhibit inside Carmarthenshire Museum.

Carmarthenshire Museum

Discover the chapters of Carmarthenshire's history in the beautiful Old Bishop's Palace of St David's, filled with family-friendly exhibitions and events.

Discover the Sir Gâr Story
Person seated at a desk in a historic interior (the Writing Shed), with papers, shelves and curtained windows in the background.

Dylan Thomas Boathouse

Visit the iconic last home of Wales's most famous poet and find out how this 'seashaken house' in the 'lovely town' of Laugharne inspired some of his most successful works.

Explore the 'imperishable' Boathouse
Group tour inside a historic industrial building, with visitors wearing high-visibility vests and safety helmets while viewing large pieces of preserved machinery.

Kidwelly Tinplate Works

Kidwelly is home to the oldest surviving tinplate works in the world, and we're working on bringing this wonderful site back to life. View our latest news, events, and guided tours here.

Be part of the reimagination
Group of schoolchildren pointing towards the Museum of Land Speed building during an educational visit.

Museum of Land Speed

Experience this family friendly museum that tells the story of Pendine Sands and the iconic land speed records that were set there.  

Ready. Set. Explore!
Two children wearing navy jackets and jeans sit on a large tree stump in front of a historic stone building. One child gives two thumbs up while both face the camera. A paved driveway, lawn, and landscaped garden areas surround the building on an overcast day.

Parc Howard Museum

Play, discover, and learn at the heart of Llanelli with exhibitions filled with ideas, inventions, and imagination.

Inspire your imagination

Explore our exhibitions and events

Logo for the Welsh Museums Festival featuring a row of colourful geometric shapes in blue, purple, orange, green, pink, and yellow above the bilingual text: “Gŵyl Amgueddfeydd Cymru / Welsh Museums Festival.”
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Welsh Museums Festival

Witches, pumpkins and not a scrap of plastic: a sustainable Halloween at CofGâr!

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Landscape painting depicting a dramatic mountain range beneath a wide sky filled with layered clouds. The central peak rises prominently above surrounding ridges, rendered in deep blue and purple tones, while rolling hills and moorland stretch across the foreground.
Parc Howard Museum

The Wild Men of Arenig

For periods of time between 1910 and 1913, the artists James Dickson Innes and Augustus John, and occasionally Derwent Lees, formed an artistic community in the Arenig valley in North Wales. Together they produced radical landscape paintings that transformed the visual language of Welsh art.

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Llandovery Castle, on a Low Hill beside the River Bran. JMW Turner
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Romantic Wales: Turner and his contemporaries

Explore Wales through J M W Turner and his contemporaries, featuring rare sketchbooks, landscapes and Neo‑Romantic art.

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    Illustrated Halloween-themed image of a large historic mansion with glowing orange windows against a dark orange sky, alongside a circular photo of a person gardening and holding freshly harvested vegetables.
    Parc Howard Museum

    Garlic, Pumpkins, and Vampires!

    Adam Jones (Adam yn yr Ardd), the S4C and BBC Radio Cymru gardener, will lead a bilingual hands-on workshop for children.

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    Group of participants reaching through a large web of strings as part of a team-building challenge, with a person wearing a pointed witch-style hat seated in the centre. The image includes decorative spiderweb graphics and the “Mess Up The Mess” logo.
    Carmarthenshire Museum

    Spooktacular Drama Session

    Want to get in the mood for a haunting Halloween?

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    October 2026
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    The Voteporix Stone

    If you like objects with stories to tell, don’t miss this impressive standing stone at Carmarthenshire Museum. It’s unusually large, beautifully carved, and it carries messages in two different writing systems. 

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    The Voteporix / Voteporigis Stone
    Museum exhibition panel introducing “The Wild Men of Arenig / Gwŷr Gwyllt Arenig” displayed on a pale pink gallery wall.
    12/08/26

    New exhibition brings the Wild Men of Arenig to Parc Howard Museum

    A new exhibition, Wild Men of Arenig: James Dickson Innes | Augustus John | Derwent Lees, opens at Parc Howard Museum, Llanelli, from 4 July 2026 to 10 January 2027.

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    Photograph of a historic stone castle ruin standing on a grassy rise beneath a clear blue sky.
    12/08/26

    Discovering Turner's Laugharne Connection

    Follow in the footsteps of J.M.W. Turner through Laugharne Castle, the Taf Estuary and the landscapes that inspired both the celebrated artist and poet Dylan Thomas. 

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    Photograph of a historic stone castle ruin standing on a grassy rise beneath a clear blue sky.
    12/08/26

    Darganfod cysylltiad Turner â Thalacharn

    Dilynwch ôl traed J.M.W. Turner drwy Gastell Talacharn, Aber Taf a'r tirweddau a ysbrydolodd y ddau – yr arlunydd enwog a'r bardd Dylan Thomas.

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    Exhibition poster for Romantic Wales, 23.05.2026 - 16.10.2026 at Carmarthenshire Museum.
    12/08/26

    Romantic Wales brings J.M.W. Turner to Carmarthenshire Museum

    An exciting new exhibition, Romantic Wales: Turner and his contemporaries, is now open at Carmarthenshire Museum in Abergwili until 16 October 2026.

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    Exhibition poster for Romantic Wales, 23.05.2026 - 16.10.2026 at Carmarthenshire Museum.
    12/08/26

    Y Gymru Ramantaidd yn dod â J.M.W.Turner i Amgueddfa Sir Gâr

    Mae arddangosfa newydd gyffrous, Y Gymru Ramantaidd: Turner a'i Gyfoedion, bellach ar agor yn Amgueddfa Sir Gâr yn Abergwili tan 16 Hydref 2026.

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    From CofGâr to you

    A young couple look at each other in front of a laughing woman holding a folder. The Boathouse patio is in the background and the Taf estuary beyond.

    Wedding and Celebration Hire

    Say “I do” in one of CofGâr’s enchanting venues, where history and romance come together to create a truly unforgettable setting.

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    Five boys pull on a rope on a beach with the Museum of Land Speed in the background.

    Workshops at the Museum of Land Speed

    Workshops here focus on both the science of speed, and also the rich natural landscape of the Pendine Sands.

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    A two-storey white cottage sits on a cliff overlooking a river with a sloping garden in front.

    Hire the Dylan Thomas Boathouse

    Rustic charm, literary inspiration, and breathtaking scenery.

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    White ceramic bowl decorated with a hand-painted design of three red fruits and green leaves on branching stems, viewed from above.

    Object Donations

    Find out about donating an object to the museum and how we make decisions about what we accept.

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    We are CofGâr.

    We care for five museums as the Carmarthenshire County Council museums and arts service