The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

National Museum of Wales

Registered charity 525774 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout Wales

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

15 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 15Education/training 15Environment/conservation/heritage 15

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2Health and social care 1Other services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£49.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

611 from 817 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
80%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.museumwales.ac.uk
Emailpost@museumwales.ac.uk
Phone02920 397951
AddressNational Museum Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP

Finances

£49,162,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£34,364,000£37,189,000
2022£38,300,000£38,830,000
2023£40,993,000£44,017,000
2024£49,569,000£46,930,000
2025£49,162,000£44,780,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC:(I) PRIMARILY, BY THE COMPREHENSIVE REPRESENTATION OF SCIENCE, ART, INDUSTRY, HISTORY AND CULTURE OF, OR RELEVANT TO, WALES, AND(II) GENERALLY, BY THE COLLECTION, RECORDING, PRESERVATION, ELUCIDATION AND PRESENTATION OF OBJECTS AND THINGS AND ASSOCIATED KNOWLEDGE, WHETHER CONNECTED OR NOT WITH WALES, WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO FURTHER THE ENHANCEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER 19 MARCH 1907, SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS OF 6 NOVEMBER 1911, 10 OCTOBER 1991 AND 19 SEPTEMBER 2006.

Trustees (15)

15trustees
61median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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