Tuesday, January 30, 2007

St Fagans Collections

Oral Traditions and Archival collections

  • The audio-visual archive consists of about 9,000 audio recordings, of which 7,000 contain original fieldwork recordings. The recorded oral information includes material relating to folk narrative, linguistics, folk medicine, traditional music, folklore and customs and oral history relating to the museum collections in general. There is a collection of 210 films, both historic and records of fieldwork undertaken by Museum staff.
  • The manuscript archive consists of over 6,000 documents relating to Welsh ethnology. In addition there are over 150,000 photographic images in the archive, comprising both historic and contemporary record photographs.
Ref http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/collections/

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