University of Wales, Aberystwyth

The School of Art Museum and the Ceramic Collection houses over 20,000 examples of fine and decorative art comprising prints, photographs, drawings, watercolours, ceramics, paintings and sculpture as well as artefacts from the University’s former Art and Crafts Museum. The core of the fine art collection is its holdings of European prints dating from the 15th century to the present day), drawings, watercolours, photographs and private press books. There are more than 5,000 wood engravings for periodicals of the 1860's and a fine collection of prints representing the Etching Revival from Whistler to the 1930's. Other significant areas of interest include art in Wales since 1945, contemporary British printmaking and Welsh photography.

In recent years the collection has significantly benefited from the formation of archives of work and related materials by such artists as Robert Austin, Bernard Cheese, John Copley, John Elwyn, Handel Evans, Evelyn Gibbs, Rigby Graham, Derrick Greaves, Edgar Holloway, Edward Bouverie Hoyton, Eric Malthouse, Robin Tanner, Keith Vaughan and Christopher Ivor Williams,

Aberystwyth Arts Centre
The Arts Centre is a department of Aberystwyth University, and sits at the heart of the university's campus, with stunning views over the town of Aberystwyth and along the coastline of Cardigan Bay. It holds a 900 seater concert hall which was opened in 1970, supplemented by an exhibition space completed in 1972. Affiliated to the University, the cost of the total project was in in excess of £1 million. So popular did it become not only as an exhibition facility but as a theatre, craft studio facility and festival location that further enhancement took place in the late 1990's. A further investment of £4.3 million saw the building of purpose built workshops encompassing pottery studio, darkrooms, video suites, a recording studio and music rooms - plus a new 120 seat cinema, dance studios and studio theatre. Employing a staff of more than 170, attracting over three-quarters of a million visitors a year with a turnover of £4million a year, the Arts Centre can justly claim to be one of the regions most successful business ventures.