List of cultural venues in Cardiff

This is a list of cultural venues in Cardiff, capital city of Wales.

Sport
Main article: List of sport venues in Cardiff

Performing arts

Performing arts venues with seating capacity:

Entertainment venues

Live music venues

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,[7] converted to a gastropub in 2011 [8]

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

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
Main article: List of places of worship in Cardiff


See also

References
  1. "Surprise at closure of Cardiff music venue Barfly", BBC News, 1 September 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  2. "Cardiff Coal Exchange: Council to do emergency safety work", BBC News, 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
  3. "Cardiff needs a venue like The Globe", guardiancardiff.com, 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
  4. "When rock met rugby: Welsh stars as you’ve never seen them before ", Wales Online, 31 January 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
  5. Kathryn Williams (23 October 2015) "5 gigs you shouldn't miss at Cardiff's new music venue Tramshed", Wales Online. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
  6. "Y Plas". www.cardiffstudents.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  7. "Regulars campaign to save Cardiff gay pub". BBC News. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
  8. "Bid to save gay Cardiff pub is defeated". Wales Online. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
  9. https://www.blackwatergallery.co.uk/
  10. "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.
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