The following cultural venues are located in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Sport
Performing arts Performing arts venues with seating capacity: City Hall, Cardiff (600) Chapter Arts Centre (180) Llanover Hall Arts Centre (100) New Theatre (Cardiff) (1,144) Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Dora Stoutzker Hall (400) Richard Burton Theatre (182) Bute Theatre (150–200) Caird Studio (50) Corus Recital Room (50) S4C Studio (50) Sir Geraint Evans Recital Room (60) Weston Gallery (80) Sherman Theatre Main theatre (631) Studio (100) Venue 3 St David's Hall Main auditorium (up to 1,956) Level 3 Day Stage (or "Level 3 Bar") (350 including standing) Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) Dance Space (100) Donald Gordon Theatre (1,897) Urdd Hall (153) Weston Studio (250) Cabaret (140) BBC Hoddinott Hall (350) Capella Production Studio and Theatre (proposed) (550) Roald Dahl Plass (Outdoor Arena)
Entertainment venues Cardiff University Students' Union Mermaid Quay Stadium Plaza Cardiff International Arena New Cardiff Bay Arena (proposed) Red Dragon Centre The Glee Club
Live music venues Barfly (200) - opened in 2001, closed in September 2010 "Surprise at closure of Cardiff music venue Barfly", BBC News, 1 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-22. Clwb Ifor Bach Coal Exchange (1,000) - Venue closed in 2007, reopened in 2009 and closed again in 2013 because of safety concerns."Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28. Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff- (160) opened 2013 The Globe (350) - opened on Albany Road, Roath, in November 2008."Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28. Inkspot Venue Cardiff - conference rooms, live music events The Moon Club, Womanby Street"When rock met rugby: Welsh stars as you’ve never seen them before ", Wales Online, 31 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-09. The Point (500) - closed in January 2009, following a single complaint from a neighbour about noise. Tiny Rebel, Cardiff- (80–100) opened 2013, function room upstairs is often used for live music Tramshed (1000) - opened in October 2015 in a converted Grade II listed tram depot in Grangetown.Kathryn Williams (23 October 2015) "5 gigs you shouldn't miss at Cardiff's new music venue Tramshed", Wales Online. Retrieved 2015-11-17. Y Plas - in the Cardiff University Students' Union building in Cathays
Gay venues Cardiff has number of gay venues in the city, particularly in the area around Charles Street and Churchill Way. Gay-friendly venues include: Golden Cross - a pub featuring regular drag acts Kings Cross, The Hayes - gay-friendly pub for over 35 years, converted to a gastropub in 2011
Historic and architectural venues This is a list of historic and architectural places and their use as a cultural venue: Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Barrage (has hosted open-air concerts) Bute Park (used for open-air concerts and festivals) Cardiff Castle (has hosted open-air concerts, a professional boxing match and small exhibitions) Castell Coch (has hosted a celebrity renewal of wedding vows)
Museums and art galleries National Museum and Gallery, Cathays Park
Museums Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans Cardiff Story Welsh Regiment Museum
Art galleries Albany Gallery, Roath - established 1965 Blackwater Gallery, Prospect Place, Cardiff Butetown History and Arts Centre (closed 2016), Cardiff Bay Oriel Canfas, Canton - run by artists who were formerly based at the Old Library in Cardiff city centre until the late 1990s Cardiff MADE, Roath Gallery Celf, Bangor Street, Roath Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay g39 - artist run gallery, opened 1998 in the city centre and relocated to a larger space off City Road, Roath in 2011."The co-director of Cardiff’s g39 contemporary art gallery on why it had to relocate from the city centre", WalesOnline, 26 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-09-28. tactileBOSCH, Llandaff Third Floor Gallery (2010–2016), Cardiff Bay
Libraries
Canton Library Cathays Library Central Library Ely Library Fairwater Library Grangetown Library Llandaff North Library Llanedeyrn Library Llanishen Library Llanrumney Library Penylan Library Radyr Library Roath Library (closed in 2014) Rhiwbina Library Rhydypennau Library Rumney Library Splott Library St Mellons Library Tongwynlais Library Whitchurch Library
Places of worship
See also Art in Cardiff Culture and recreation in Cardiff List of places in Cardiff List of places in Wales
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