A restored WWII airfield control tower beside Carew — volunteer-run, packed with wartime detail, and moving in a way big museums rarely manage.
Museums & Galleries in Pembrokeshire
26 museums across 15 Pembrokeshire towns and villages.
Small and specific rather than grand: Pembrokeshire's museums are mostly volunteer-run and tell one story each well — the Sunderland flying boats at Pembroke Dock, the port at Milford Haven, the town at Tenby and Haverfordwest.
The galleries follow the coast. Porthgain, Solva, St Davids and Newport all support working artists, largely because the north coast light and the harbours have drawn painters here for over a century. Most are free to enter and are genuinely commercial galleries rather than exhibitions, so opening hours track the tourist season.
By town and village
Our picks
Our own picks. Nobody pays to be here.
Photo: Colin Bell (CC BY-SA 2.0)Chapel Bay Fort & Museum
MuseumA Victorian coastal fort at Angle restored by volunteers into a working museum of the Haven's defences — guns, ramparts, café and all.
- Website
- chapelbayfort.com
Photo: Garth Newton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Pembrokeshire's county museum: a Victorian manor, working heritage exhibits and 60 acres of country park with play areas — the park itself costs nothing.
- Website
- pembrokeshire.gov.uk
Photo: Eirian Evans (CC BY-SA 2.0)A 30-metre embroidered telling of the 1797 French landing near Fishguard — the last invasion of Britain — stitched by 77 local volunteers, free to see.
Every museum, by town and village
Tenby
7 museumsHaverfordwest
4 museums- Scolton Manor Museum & Country Park
- Haverfordwest Museum
- The Creative Gallery
- Welsh spitfire museum
Saundersfoot
1 museum- History of Coal Mining
Solva
1 museumNarberth
1 museumAngle
1 museumPorthgain
1 museumCilgerran
1 museumMaenclochog
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