The National Waterfront Museum in Swansea was designed by Wilkinson Eyre, with exhibition design by Land Design Studio, after a competition run by RIBA Competitions. It is part of Amgueddfa Cymru, Museum Wales, and opened in October 2005. The article gives no address, style or construction dates.
The new slate and glass building joins an existing Grade II listed warehouse that was formerly the Swansea Industrial and Maritime Museum. It cost 33.5 million pounds, with funding from the Welsh Development Agency and 11 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
It uses interactive touchscreens, multilingual voiceovers and British Sign Language captioning on all interactive content. Accessibility concerns have been raised about the museum, according to the article.
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