Museums - Aberystwyth Art Gallery & Museum

The University of Wales, Aberystwyth was founded in 1872, and its Museum was established in 1876. The university's Art and Crafts Museum, established in 1918, was disbanded as a museum around the time of the Second World War and its collections were dispersed among the school's buildings or put into storage. The university opened new galleries in the late 1980s, and in 1993 and School of Art moved to the Edward Davies Building and formed the School of Art Gallery and Museum.
The museum's collection contains more than 18,000 examples of graphic art, ceramics, and sculpture, as well as collections from the former Art and Crafts Museum, including archaeological material, ethnographic artifacts, and more. The ethnographic collections contain basketry from Europe, North America, and Africa alongside groups of weaponry and musical instruments from Polynesia, Africa, New Guinea, and Australia.