'Swansea's Royal Institution and Wales's First Museum'

This month from the University of Wales Press sees the publication of Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum edited by Helen Hallesy with Gerald Gabb. In 1841, the Royal Institution of South Wales founded the first museum in Wales. Specialist authors describe its formation as a learned society, and its survival into the twenty-first century. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the book reveals the varied and comprehensive collections within Swansea museum.