The museum currently employs 650 staff at sites across Wales, including Cardiff, St Fagans, the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea and the National Slate Museum in Llanberis.

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It will then be shown at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea from 14 July until 10 October 2010.

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The Olympic Sculpture Park (2901 Western Avenue) is a nine-acre waterfront offshoot of the Seattle Art Museum, with free admission.

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Lord Rogers' debating chamber for the Welsh Assembly and Swansea's new waterfront museum are nearly finished.

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The completed museum, which replaces old warehouses on what was once a working waterfront, has become Bilbao's dramatic symbol of renewal and bid for an updated economic and cultural base.

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Early the next morning I went for a walk along the waterfront, past a chowder house, a saltwater taffy shop, a wax museum, and a replica Mayflower moored in the bay.

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