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Article: Top attraction celebrates its 60th birthday; Milestone for St Fagans museum.(News)
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- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Byline: Andrew Dagnell
WALES' top tourist attraction - St Fagans National History Museum - is celebrating its 60th birthday today.
The museum was called the Welsh Folk Museum when it opened on July 1, 1948.
Since then it has become one of Europe's most-visited open-air museums, with more than 674,000 people passing through its doors in the last year alone.
During the last 60 years more than forty original buildings from different ...