The National Woollen Museum located in Drefach Felindre, Llandysul, Ceredigion is one of the National Museums of Wales.
Background
Historically and into the 19th century, the production and processing of wool surpassed even coal as the most important of Wales' industries. The Teifi Valley was the centre of the West Wales woollen industry, earning itself the nickname "The Huddersfield of Wales."
Cambrian Mills
Built in 1852, the Cambrian Mills factory was the largest woollen mill in West Wales, employing over 250 workers at its peak. Reduced to an empty shell by a fire in November 1889, the rebuilt factory remains in continuous operation since it was rebuilt in 1902.
The museum
Both the mill and the village of Drefach Felindre are a national heritage site. Launched as the Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry in 1976, it reopened in March 2004 as the National Woollen Museum following a two year, �2 million refit partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The restoration work includes a glass roofed courtyard, and a new gallery which displays aspects of the National Flat Textile collection. As well as historic machinery, a raised walkway gives a view of textiles in production at Melin Teifi, the site's commercial woollen mill. In 2005 a Research and Collections Centre opened which includes a room dedicated to hands on learning opportunities.
The renovation was part of a �40m museum strategy for Wales, and opened by National Assembly for Wales Culture Minister Alun Pugh. The strategy embraces three existing site-specific museums; the National Woollen Museum, the Welsh Slate Museum at Llanberis; Big Pit, the National Mining Museum of Wales in Blaenavon; and development of the new National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. | 
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