From drowned forests and ancient tombs to castles, saints, shipyards and the last invasion of Britain — explore the people and places that shaped the far west of Wales, gallery by gallery.
Croeso i Sir Benfro — welcome to Pembrokeshire.
Each gallery brings together the stories, places and finds of one great stretch of the county's past.
Mesolithic hunters, drowned forests, Neolithic tombs, the Preseli bluestones and Iron Age hillforts.
Enter gallerySaints and cathedrals, Norman castles, the birth of a Tudor king, invasion, shipyards and industry.
Enter galleryStep out of the virtual museum and into the landscape: tombs, forts, castles and coastline to see for real.
Enter gallerySpotted dolerite and other rocks from the Preseli Hills were carried to Stonehenge, more than 140 miles away.
Some of the stones of Stonehenge began their journey in the hills of north Pembrokeshire.
Geologists have matched the smaller “bluestones” at Stonehenge to outcrops in the Preseli Hills, including the spotted dolerite of Carn Goedog and rhyolite from Craig Rhos-y-felin.
How and why they were moved so far, thousands of years ago, is still one of the great puzzles of British prehistory — and one of the stories told in our prehistory gallery.
Read the storyMuch of Pembrokeshire's history is still standing in the open air, along the coast path, in the hills and at the heart of its towns.
An old cultural boundary runs across Pembrokeshire, and you can still hear it in place names and language today.
Around the Preseli Hills and the north coast, Welsh has long been the everyday language, and many place names are Welsh in origin.
A line of castles and an invisible border between north and south, often traced back to the Norman settlement of the south.
The south became largely English-speaking after the Normans settled it, earning the old nickname used for the area.
A virtual museum grows with its community. Local memories, old photographs and family stories all help build a fuller picture of Pembrokeshire's past.