Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is among 29 cultural sites benefiting from £3m Welsh Government funding for facility enhancements.

In total, 18 local museums, five libraries and six archive projects will receive funding to enhance their facilities and make them more accessible for visitors.

Money from the funding will go towards the project ‘A Fine Ship to Sail: The Future of Tenby Museum & Art Gallery’ - which will allow for improvements and renovation to the building which sits on Castle Hill around the picturesque harbour.

Wales’ Culture Minister, Jack Sargeant, said: “Our local museums, libraries and archive projects are vital community assets serving as visitor attractions, valuable resources for schools, and health and wellbeing hubs for the whole community.

“This fund will help protect them into the future. And it will do so with a focus on my priorities: improving access and facilities for visitors, diverse communities, families and young people; enhancing collection care and digital access; and developing the sustainability of the local culture sector,” he added.

Carmarthenshire Museums are set to benefit from the funding too, with a new approach to inclusive and accessible exhibitions and interpretation, along with the installation of an interpretation and lighting system within newly created exhibition galleries.

The funds will also be spent on reimagining the online visitor experience, through a project to make the CofGar website more accessible and sustainable; as well as improvement of digital access and accessibility to collections via website development.

Local authorities can currently bid for a share of a further £2.5m for their local museums, libraries and archives over the next 12 months.

A total of £15m in funding attached to the Welsh Government’s Priorities for Culture - an ambitious and collaborative vision for the future of culture in Wales - will be distributed to the culture sector in Wales by March, 2026.