Introduction

Welcome to The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales - home to a comprehensive and unequalled collection of films, television programmes, videos, sound recordings and music relating to Wales and the Welsh.

The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales is responsible for safeguarding and celebrating Wales' rich audio-visual heritage. We collect, catalogue, preserve and provide public access to the material in our care.

The collection encompasses:

over 5.5m feet of film
over 250,000 hours of video
over 200,000 hours of sound recordings
thousands of tapes, records and compact discs

The Archive was established in 2001, as the collections of the old Wales Film and Television Archive were merged with The National Library of Wales' Sound and Moving Image collection. The Archive is funded by The Library and Sgrîn - the Media Agency for Wales.

Today, the Archive staff work from the Archive's brand new, state-of-the-art office complex in The National Library, where a 100-seater auditorium - the Drwm - was officially opened this year, providing an ideal venue for celebrating and interpreting the Archive's collections.



The Archive is a member of:

The UK Film Archive Forum
FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives)
FOCAL (Federation of Commercial Audio-Visual Archives International Ltd)
IASA (International Association of Sound Archives)

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