MOMA Wales
The MOMA WALES is home to an excellent collection of works from Welsh artists of the 20th Century.
MOMA Wales (Museum of Modern Art, Wales) has grown up alongside Y Tabernacl, a former Methodist Chapel, built in 1880. This attractive neoclassical building has been fully restored and houses, together with six beautiful exhibition spaces, the visual and performing arts centre of Y Tabernacl, The Tabernacle. A year round schedule of events and temporary exhibitions are run alongside an excellent permanent collection of modern Welsh artists. Y Tabernacl is also the central venue for Machynlleth 's annual Arts Festival, the Gwyl Machynlleth, which takes place in August with music events from traditional song to jazz and a lively collection of fringe events.
In a town with such a rebel history as Machynlleth, it's hardly surprising that it houses MOMA Wales, itself often a focal point for alternative art, thinking and politics. Machynlleth after all is a focal point for Welsh nationalism: it was Owain Glyndwrs Welsh capital and Plaid Cymru, the Welsh National Party, was established here.
What MOMA WALES captures is a view of modern Welsh identity, of how the Welsh see themselves and their position in the world today, in a way not evident in the more establishment orientated institutions of Cardiff .
