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 == Museums ==
-'''Carmarthenshire County Museum'''<br>The Old Palace<br>Abergwili<br>Carmarthen SA31 2JG UK<br>Telephone: 1267 228696<br>
+'''Carmarthenshire Museum'''<br>Abergwili<br>Carmarthen SA31 2JG UK<br><br>Telephone: 1267 234567<br>
-Email: [mailto:museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk]<br>Website: [https://artuk.org/visit/venues/carmarthenshire-county-museum-6856 Carmarthenshire County Museum]
+Email: [mailto:museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk]<br>[https://www.discovercarmarthenshire.com/places/carmarthen/carmarthenshire-museum/ Website ]
+::Carmarthenshire Museum tells the county story at the old palace of the Bishops of St Davids. The museum collections span 50,000 years of human history.
-:Carmarthenshire County Museum has on display a fine collection of paintings that are distributed throughout its galleries. The museum tells the fascinating story of Carmarthenshire. The museum is housed in a former Bishop’s Palace at Abergwili, near Carmarthen, and stands in its own grounds near the historic Merlin’s Hill.
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 '''Carmarthen Town Museum and Gallery'''<br>6 Little Water St<br>Carmarthen SA31 1ER UK<br>Telephone: 1267 228696<br>
 Email: [mailto:museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk]<br>
-Website: [http://museu.ms/museum/details/16132/carmarthen-town-museum-and-gallery Carmarthen Town Museum and Gallery]
+[http://museu.ms/museum/details/16132/carmarthen-town-museum-and-gallery Website]
+::Beside the famous River Tywi, Carmarthen has been a centre of government since Roman times.  The displays trace the history of Carmarthen’s varied past, from Roman Moridunum and royal borough to busy county town.
-:Beside the famous River Tywi, Carmarthen has been a centre of government since Roman times.  The displays trace the history of Carmarthen’s varied past, from Roman Moridunum and royal borough to busy county town.
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 '''Kidwelly Industrial Museum (Amgueddfa Ddiwydiannol Cydweli)'''<br>1 Velindre Cottages<br>Kidwelly SA17 4LW UK<br>Telephone: 1554 891078/01267 228696<br>
 Email: [mailto:info@kidwellyindustrialmuseum.co.uk info@kidwellyindustrialmuseum.co.uk]<br>Email #2: [mailto:info@kidwellyindustrialmuseum.org.uk info@kidwellyindustrialmuseum.org.uk]<br>
-Website: [http://kidwellyindustrialmuseum.org.uk/ Kidwelly Industrial Museum]
+Website: [http://kidwellyindustrialmuseum.org.uk/ Museum]
+::This Museum houses the oldest surviving tinplate works in Europe. This unique museum is dedicated to the interpretation of the tinplate industry in general and specifically the packmill process. The locally around the Kidwelly and Llanelli area was once the home to nearly half the world’s tinplate production.
-:This Museum houses the oldest surviving tinplate works in Europe. Sited a mile outside the historic town of Kidwelly the museum houses the second oldest recorded tinplate works in the UK. This unique museum is dedicated to the interpretation of the tinplate industry in general and specifically the packmill process. The locally around the Kidwelly and Llanelli area was once the home to nearly half the world’s tinplate production.
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-'''National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru)'''<br>
-Website: [https://museum.wales/ National Museum of Wales]
-:Amgueddfa Cymru is a family of seven museums located throughout Wales.  They are the National Museum Cardiff, the St Fagans National Museum of History, the National Waterfront Museum, the Big Pit National Coal Museum, the National Slate Museum, the National Roman Legion Museum, and the National Wool Museum.
-'''National Wool Museum'''<br>Dre-Fach Felindre<br>Felindre<br>Llandysul SA44 5UP UK<br>Telephone: 0300 1112333<br>
-Email: [mailto:wool@museumwales.ac.uk wool@museumwales.ac.uk]<br>Website: [https://museum.wales/wool/ National Wool Museum]
-:The National Wool Museum displays tell the story of the Woollen Industry through working machinery, archive material, and exciting hands-on displays and textile gallery.  Wool was historically the most important and widespread of Wales's industries and the National Wool Museum is housed in the historic former Cambrian Mills which made shirts and shawls, blankets and bedcovers, woollen stockings and socks sold throughout the world. The picturesque village of Dre-fach Felindre in the beautiful Teifi valley was once the centre of the thriving woollen industry, earning the nickname 'The Huddersfield of Wales'.
 '''Parc Howard Museum'''<br>Felinfoel Road<br>Llanelli SA15 3LJ UK<br>Telephone: 01554 772029<br>
 Email: [mailto:museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk museums@carmarthenshire.gov.uk]<br>
-Website: [http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/theatresartsmuseums/parc-howard-museum/ Parc Howard Museum]
+[http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/theatresartsmuseums/parc-howard-museum/ Website]
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-:Find out why Llanelli was the tinplate capital of the world. The old home of the Buckley brewing family also displays Llanelly Pottery and a lovely collection of paintings by local artists.