The work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Pembrokeshire will be featured in a new temporary exhibition launched recently at the National Waterfront Museum, at Swansea.
Using modern and archive images the display will show how Brunel's work on railways, bridges, docks and ships in South Wales helped to revolutionise transport and bring Wales to the forefront of the international industrial revolution.
Brunel's achievements included the world's largest ship of its day, the passenger steam ship the Great Eastern, which was laid up in the Milford Haven Waterway, and also the South Wales Railway, connecting Neyland to London and slashing the journey time to less than a quarter of that taken by coach.
This exhibition will celebrate the bicentenary of Brunel's birth this year and is one of several celebrations being organised across Wales and the rest of Britain.
The exhibition will tour several Welsh venues after it closes at the National Waterfront Museum in June. Full details of the tour will be available on the Museum's website, www.waterfrontmuseum. co.uk.
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