The county museum tells the stories of people, power and protest across Carmarthenshire, from the arts and crafts they made to the tools and techniques they used.

Based in the 700-year-old former Palace for the Bishops of St David's, you'll find reminders of that history throughout your visit. From a peaceful Chapel to a dark Old Kitchen, you'll find plenty to enjoy at the Palace in a Park.

Permanent displays showcase Carmarthenshire history in themed galleries, beginning with Power, People and Protest, and continuing through to a Victorian School Room and Second World War Kitchen. The collections on display showcase everything from crafts and customs to farming and fine art.

For now, some of our objects are taking a break for a while, mainly from Carmarthenshire's distant past. They include some of our most significant objects, like our Prehistoric and Roman archaeology, and our Welsh Christian memorial stones. But, we're currently working on renovating two new galleries, which we hope will host some of these treasures in fabulous new exhibitions.

We also run an exciting special exhibition programme, where we display a mixture of objects on loan from national galleries and museums and some of the collections we care for, in a new context. Between 2022 and 2024, we hosted three beautiful paintings from the National Gallery in London, as part of the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour.