As the newest of the seven national museums in Wales, the National Waterfront Museum tells the story of Welsh industry and innovation. This article traces the construction and engagement of the museum’s fifteen galleries as performed landscapes in a detailed analysis of memory work. Focusing on the crafted discourse of the museum, visitor narratives as they experience the museum, and performances that regularly occupy the museum’s spaces presents a unique opportunity for landscape analysis within the context of the memory work of a museum. Swansea’s 2017 Dance Days, for example, focused around the theme of climate change and the vulnerability of the ocean while visitors were somewhat less engaged with environmental impacts as presented in the permanent collections. This article expands beyond a typical understanding of museum discourse to explore the incorporation of creative geographies of landscape, performance, and memory into more traditional museum and spatial narratives.

作为威尔士七大国家博物馆中最新的一座，国家滨水博物馆讲述了威尔士工业和创新的故事。本文通过对记忆工作的详细分析，追溯了博物馆 15 个画廊作为表演景观的建设和参与。专注于精心制作的博物馆话语、参观者体验博物馆时的叙述以及经常占据博物馆空间的表演，为在博物馆记忆工作的背景下进行景观分析提供了独特的机会。例如，斯旺西 2017 年的舞蹈日围绕气候变化和海洋的脆弱性这一主题展开，而参观者则不太像永久收藏中展示的那样关注环境影响。