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The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS is a museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 situated in Swansea
Swansea

Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
, Wales
Wales

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, forming part of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales (NMGW). It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage
European Route of Industrial Heritage

The European Route of Industrial Heritage is a network of the most important Industrial Heritage sites in Europe. The aim of the project is to create interest for the common European Heritage of the Industrialization and its remains....
.

Consisting of a major new slate
Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliation , homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcano ash through low grade regional metamorphism....
 and glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
 building integrated with an existing Grade II listed warehouse
Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc....
 (formerly the Swansea Industrial and Maritime Museum), the new museum deals with Wales' history of industrial revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
 and innovation
Innovation

The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations....
 by combining significant historical
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 artifacts with modern technologies, such as interactive touchscreen
Touchscreen

A touchscreen is a display which can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touch or contact to the display of the device by a finger or hand....
s and multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 presentation systems. Building and exhibition design was carried out by Wilkinson Eyre
Wilkinson Eyre

Wilkinson Eyre Architects is a high-profile, international architecture firm based in London, UK. The firm has received many awards for outstanding and original solutions to design and engineering problems....
 and Land Design Studio respectively, and Davis Langdon
Davis Langdon

Davis Langdon, LLP, known globally as Davis Langdon and Seah International, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London, UK with 30 offices throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and over 100 worldwide....
 was project manager
Project manager

A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution, and closing of any project, typically relating to construction industry, architecture, computer networking, telecommunications or software development....
 for the construction.

Much effort has been put into accessibility
Accessibility

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product is accessible by as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity....
 for the new museum, and is one of the first museums in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 to feature multilingual voiceovers, as well as British Sign Language
British Sign Language

File:Bsl.pngBritish Sign Language is the sign language used in the United Kingdom , and is the first or preferred language of deaf people in the UK; the number of signers has been put at 30,000 to 70,000....
 captioning on all interactive content.






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The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS is a museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 situated in Swansea
Swansea

Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, forming part of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales (NMGW). It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage
European Route of Industrial Heritage

The European Route of Industrial Heritage is a network of the most important Industrial Heritage sites in Europe. The aim of the project is to create interest for the common European Heritage of the Industrialization and its remains....
.

Consisting of a major new slate
Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliation , homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcano ash through low grade regional metamorphism....
 and glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
 building integrated with an existing Grade II listed warehouse
Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc....
 (formerly the Swansea Industrial and Maritime Museum), the new museum deals with Wales' history of industrial revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
 and innovation
Innovation

The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations....
 by combining significant historical
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 artifacts with modern technologies, such as interactive touchscreen
Touchscreen

A touchscreen is a display which can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touch or contact to the display of the device by a finger or hand....
s and multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 presentation systems. Building and exhibition design was carried out by Wilkinson Eyre
Wilkinson Eyre

Wilkinson Eyre Architects is a high-profile, international architecture firm based in London, UK. The firm has received many awards for outstanding and original solutions to design and engineering problems....
 and Land Design Studio respectively, and Davis Langdon
Davis Langdon

Davis Langdon, LLP, known globally as Davis Langdon and Seah International, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London, UK with 30 offices throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and over 100 worldwide....
 was project manager
Project manager

A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers can have the responsibility of the planning, execution, and closing of any project, typically relating to construction industry, architecture, computer networking, telecommunications or software development....
 for the construction.

Much effort has been put into accessibility
Accessibility

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product is accessible by as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity....
 for the new museum, and is one of the first museums in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 to feature multilingual voiceovers, as well as British Sign Language
British Sign Language

File:Bsl.pngBritish Sign Language is the sign language used in the United Kingdom , and is the first or preferred language of deaf people in the UK; the number of signers has been put at 30,000 to 70,000....
 captioning on all interactive content.

The museum, which initially went to public consultation
Public consultation

Public consultation, or simply consultation, is a regulatory process by which the public's input on matters affecting them is sought. Its main goals are in improving the efficiency, transparency and public involvement in large-scale projects or laws and policies....
 in April 1998, and secured funding from the Welsh Development Agency
Welsh Development Agency

The Welsh Development Agency was an Assembly Sponsored Public Body established in 1976 to encourage business development and investment in Wales....
 and the Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. The Fund opened for applications in 1994....
 (among others) was opened in October 2005 at a ceremony attended by Welsh celebrities such as Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards

Gareth Owen Edwards Order of the British Empire is a former Welsh rugby union footballer who played Rugby union positions#9. Scrum-half, considered by many to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game....
 and First Minister Rhodri Morgan
Rhodri Morgan

Hywel Rhodri Morgan Assembly Member is a Welsh politician; the Wales Labour Party National Assembly for Wales Member for the constituency of Cardiff West; and the second and current First Minister for Wales....
. However, there has been some concern that the massive Waterfront regeneration that has driven the development of the museum is taking much-needed attention away from Swansea's city centre, which has suffered significant economical decline since the 1980s.

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